The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 53
Biblical Criticism of the Present Day.
1904.]
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unceasing activity of the Holy Spirit with the Word, they have never attributed any higher value to the fides
humana than
of
being a preparative and directing work, and their real power
and actual strength has never sprung from any other source than
tin-
immediate Witness of the Holy
This Witness
Spirit.
of the Holy Spirit was not taken in the Lutheran sense, as of a " Spiriiits Sanctas
and much
i>i
ipsa Scriptnra loquens et tcstificans,"
heavy sense of our present-day theo-
less still in the
logians, as a
harmony
of the reflex of the Spirit in us with the
reflex of the Spirit in the Scripture
which
Spirit
Holy
the
;
but a witness of the Holy
born, as Calvin puts
is
Spirit
who
when
it,
spoke centuries ago through the mouth
my
of the apostles and prophets enters into
supranatural witness imparts to
ance: vine
I,
same God
that
me
and by a
heart,
the indisputable
God-myself, have inspired
this
assur-
Scripture, this di-
Word.
This touches the heart of the question.
He who has He who
ceived that witness stands immovable as a wall.
not received effort of
own
it,
man
And
undulates as a wave of the sea.
to replace this witness of the Spirit
demonstration,
is
every
by one's
sinful, falls short of the glory of
and never accomplishes
its
purpose.
All children of
re-
has
God,
God
re-
ceive this witness at his appointed time, so surely, that even
the ethical theologians
who came
to
life,
after they
had played
through their entire repertoire of negations, had to come back to the church
of our Spirit
ism
;
God
" !
and confess
And
therefore,
it
is
this
" this
is
the
Word
witness of the Holy
which breaks the teeth out of the mouth of
all clerical-
which, after the removal of every middle-link, binds the
soul immediately to
with
that, after all,
that
invaluable
God
;
right
and thereby enriches each layman of
spiritual
liberty,
from which
heroic courage, firmness of character, and real love of freedom
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