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The Inquirer Directed to an Experimental and Practical View of the Work of the Holy Spirit
The Inquirer Directed to an Experimental and Practical View of the Work of the Holy Spirit Author:Octavius Winslow General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1840 Original Publisher: R. Carter Subjects: Holy Spirit Religion / Christian Theology / Pneumatology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this ... more »book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. THE SPIRIT, A UUICKENER. THE SOUL, AFTER CONVERSION. " That which is born of the Spirit is spirit." John iii. 6. No truth shines with clearer lustre in the divine word, than that, salvation, from first to last, is of God. It is convincingly and beautifully shewn to be, the work of the glorious Trinity in unity. Each person of the Godhead occupying a distinct and peculiar office, and yet all engaged upon, and, as it were, coalescing in, this mighty undertaking. The Father, is represented as giving his elect in covenant engagement to his Son, John xvii. 2. The Son, is represented as assuming in eternity the office of Surety, and, in the " fulness of time," appearing in human form, and suffering for their sins upon the cross, Bom. viii. 3. The Holy Ghost, is represented as convincing of sin, working faith in the heart, and leading to the atoning blood, John xvi. 8. Thus is salvation shewn to be the entire work of the Trinne God, distinct in office, yet one in purpose. We have now more immediately to do with that department in the stupendous plan, ascribed especially and peculiarly to God the Eternal Spirit. We have already viewed the sinner in the various phases of his unconverted state. Awful did that state appear! The understanding, the will, the affections all dark, perverted, and alienated from God; -- yea, enmity and death marking every unconverted man. We have seen this state reversed. The temple restored, and God dwelling again with men. The heart brought back to its lawful Soverei...« less