Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854. Excerpt: ... THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT., LECTUEE I. THE CAPACITIES, CONDITION, AND WANTS OF MAN, AS A SPIRITUAL BEING. It is generally acknowledged by Christians that there is a work of the Spirit of God in the salvation of man. We propose to examine what the Scriptures have taught respecting this work. The whole of that teaching assumes, most obviously, that man possesses a spiritual nature;--that this his spiritual nature is disordered and depraved;--and that the work of the Spirit of God in him is designed to rectify this depravity, and thus to restore his spiritual nature to that condition which is well-pleasing to God. Our examination of this Christian doctrine, then, begins with those facts to which the doctrine itself refers. We are thus thrown back on the elements of truth. Before reasoning on remote mysteries, we are concerned with our most intimate convictions, our clearest personal knowledge. Having duly pondered man's testimony to his own spiritual nature, and to the present condition of that nature, it will be easy to infer from this testimony what it is which must be done in him if he is to be restored to righteousness; and we shall be prepared to receive with meek intelligence the lessons which God himself has given, on the way in which this great want of man is to be supplied. Oar appeal, in this stage of the inquiry, does not lie to hooks, but to thoughts; not to opinions that may be derived from others, but to the calm, independent judgment of each man's separate self. There is no avoiding the belief that our nature is spiritual: every form in which it has been denied implies that it is true. It is involved in every statement which, any man can make upon the subject. It is that truth, indeed, which lies under every other truth which we can apprehen...
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