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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: CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. No. III. THE WITNESS OP THE SPIRIT. It is as true, that if any man have the Spirit of Christ, he is Christ's, as that if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his: for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God: ? and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ. It is therefore the duty of all who have been led by the Spirit, to believe this in their own case; because they are warranted and welcome to do so, and cannot, until they believe it in their own case, experience the witness, or the seal of the Spirit. Indeed the fruits of the Spirit will be both few and imperfect until it is Believed. Accordingly, many who can hardly doubt that they have experienced something of the work of the Spirit on their minds, are afraid to regard it as that good work which he will carry on; because they do not feel the witness of the Spirit, nor the joy of the Holy Ghost. Hence the question which they put to themselves so often? How can 1 think that what I have experienced is the saving work of the Spirit, seeing that I feel nothing of the witness, the seal, or the earnest of the Spirit? The fruit of the Spirit is joy and peace, as well as ' temperance and goodness;' and as I have no joy, and but little peace, is it not likely that all the change which I have undergone is merely the effect of the common operations of the Spirit, instead of being the effect of his special influences ? Thus many of the truly serious argue in their own case. In order to clear up this matter, the firs thing to be settled is, evidently, whether the change of views, feelings, and habits, which you have experienced, is a divine change. Now it must be either divine or human. But if you, as a self-con...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217812047 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021781204X |
| Weight | 0.33 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.22 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 92 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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