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Day.
Biblical Criticism of the Present
thought need detain
By
us.
the constant usage of another in-
And
strument, the result must be different. dent, for the
glorious
Holy
[July,
by
that not
acci-
Spirit did not chose his instrument for this
work only
given moment, but created and pre-
at the
pared such an instrument already in the succession of the gen-
by the forming of heart and brains,
erations,
education, the leading of the daily
ward
and mostly also by
life,
To
narrate history, the
periphery,
if
ments and
all
I
may
caviler,
Holy
facts
say
was
but a poetic
an instrument
Spirit used
present,
and
in
were found the
so,
To
necessary data.
of the living God, the
Holy
in the
Holy
which
itself
Spirit did not choose a
Thomas
employ a prosaic
was deeply shaken,
Simon Bar-jonas
not an
whether, indeed, the
such as he
;
itself
but a Paul
;
is,
with
all
Andrew who
stood afar
I
why
•good, 'nobis,
by
to serve,
And
A
spirits.
this is possible
strange spirit can
The Gospels
tell
us this
myself have heard this double speaking in
one possessed of frenzy. to possession
that of psychical analy-
is
spirit.
speak through one so possessed.
and
Hence
knowledge which he himself pos-
the
organ of another
sesses, as the
definitely,
up
Thad-
not a
human person was framed
people can be possessed of other
real
lifted
but a John whose head reclined on Jesus' bosom.
the only point in question, therefore, ;
and docu-
In like manner, for the apostolic gnosis, the
Spirit.
deus, but a
in
spiritual
sing psalms for the church
Spirit did not
spirit,
whose
scrolls
moved, down-trodden, and which heroically
sis
in-
grace.
which the memory of
•off,
manner of
in the
If
evil spirits,
now our
why
not also by good
not then by the Holy Spirit
agitante calescimus
illo
";
spirits are susceptible
all
?
The
;
and
" est
if
by
Dens
in
the gifts of genius
;
all
powers of poetry and art; also the several forms of
divination,
show
that another spirit
can achieve something
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