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THE PRINCIPLE OF LIFE Things incidental tothis,INTHE CREATURE25such as the inspiration of Scripture,the preparation of the Body of Christ, the extraordinary ministrationof grace to the Church, are only connecting-links, connecting the beginning wit ...
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THE CREATION26animating principle but the Holy Spirit? " Thou sendest forth Thy Spirit, they are created; Thou takest away Thy breath, they die." This inward, invisible something is God's direct touch. There is in us and in every creature a point where the living God touches us to u ...
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VI.The HostofHeaven and of Earth. "TheSpirit ofme."—/odGod hath madexxxiii. 4.Understanding somewhat the characteristic note of the work of Holy Spirit, let us see what this work was and is and shall be. The Father brings forth, the S ...
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THE CREATION28ways so that from Word and that of thedifferent of the;only that whichthis passage itappears that the workSpirii are the same, the latter addingpeculiarly His own.isshould be noticed that hardly any of thes ...
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THE CREATION30The Hebrew text shows that the work of the Holy Spirit moving upon the face of the waters was similar to that of the parent bird which with outspread wings hovers over its young to cherish and cover them.Thefigure implies that not only the earth existed, ...
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THE HOST OF HEAVEN AND OF EARTH mind29" tohave the spirit of Jesus," which indiBut to distinguish the divine Being from a spirit of that Being is to conceive of the Godhead in a human way. The divine consciousness differs wholly from the human. While in us there is a differen ...
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THE HOST OF HEAVEN AND OF EARTH31made, and the plan or model was in the divine counsel, yet a special act of the Holy Spirit was needed to cause them to be. This is still plainer in view of the fact that neither passage refers to the_/^/^/ creation, but to a man and animals formed l ...
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VII.TheCreaturely Man. "Spirit ofGod hath made me, andthe breathof the Almighty hathThegivenTheEternal and Ever-blessedme life."—yi?3 xxxiii.God comes4.into vital touch withthe creature by an ...
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THE CREATION34when he meets the stem we accustom ourselves to see facts and history flesh and record the of our own blood, of our own this in human nature and life, and acknowledge that by human generation we spring from Adam, and therefore were in Adam when he was created— then we ...
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THE CREATURELY MANIn the visible world this action con-Spirit to effect such contact. sists inthe kindling and fanning of the spark oflife;henceit isharmony with the general tenor of the Scripture that the Spirit of God moves upon the face ...