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— BY PROFESSOR WARFIELDxxviirange of the matter in its appropriate place in their completed But when monographs came to be written, they have tended to confine themselves to a single segment of the great cirtiresystems.and thus we have hadcle;treatises ra ...
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INTRODUCTORY NOTE. By prof, benjamin Of ItisKuyperWARFIELD,B.D.D.. LL.D.,Princeton Theological Seminary.fortunately no longer necessary formally to introduce Dr. to theAmericanreligious public.Quite a number of hisremark ...
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INTRODUCTORY NOTExxviwhen he appears again before us; he seems rather be one of our own prophets to whose message we have a certain right, and a new book from whose hands we welcome as we would a new gift from our near friend charged in a sense with care for our welfare. The book th ...
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INTRODUCTORY NOTExxviiithat the comparative rarity of such comprehensive treatises on theworkof theHolySpirit as Dr.ness and difficulty of the task.Kuyper's is due simply to the great"We have been careful to say thatIt is only in the ...
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— .;BY PROFESSOR WARFIELDxxixand spiritual power; while, if we may be permitted to go back only a few years, we may find in Dr. James Buchanan's " The Office and Work of the Holy Spirit," and in Dr. George Smeaton's " The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit," two treatises covering t ...
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INTRODUCTORY NOTExxxii clesiastical,and dogmatichistorical,sides.Thehistory of his bookexceedingly instructive and suggestive with respect to the topic itself. He found the subject, as he approached it more closely, in a very special degree a diffi ...
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INTRODUCTORY NOTEXXXder Geister im nachapostolischen Zeitalter" (1899); while a little earlier the Dutch theologian Beversluis issued a more comprehensiveDe Heilige Geest en zijne werkingen volgens de Schriften des Nieuwen Verbonds" (1896). Their investigation of the Biblical ...
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:BY PROFESSOR WARFIELDxxxiAnd, indeed, it was greeted in theological circles at the time with something like amused amazement that any one could devote so much time and labor to this theme, or expect others to find time and energy to read such a treatise. We are told that a w ...
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BY PROFESSOR VVARFIELD Andwe pauseifto askwhyxxxvthe formulation of the doctrine ofthe work of the Spirit waited for the Reformation and for Calvin, and why the further working out of the details of this doctrine and itsenrichment by the pro ...
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INTRODUCTORY NOTExxxhReformation movement, or rather they provided its vital breath. But it was Calvin who first gave them anything like systematic or adequate expression and it is through him and from him that they have come to be the assured possession of the Church of Christ. The ...