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The Work of the Holy Spirit, Viewed Experimentally and Practically
The Work of the Holy Spirit Viewed Experimentally and Practically Author:Octavius Winslow Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE SPIRIT, A QUICKENER. THK SOUL iFTER CONVERSION. " That which is born of the Spirit is spirit."—John iii. 6. No truth, shines with cl... more »earer lustre in the Divine word, than that salvation, from first to last, is of God. It is convincingly and beautifully shown 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, Rom. 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 shown to be the entire work of the Triune 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 Sovereign, and clinging to him with all the grasp of its renewed affections. Darkness succeeded by light, enmity by love, ingratitude by praise; and the whole soul, turning with the rapidity and certainty of the magnetic needle, to God, the centre of its high and holy attraction. To whos...« less