Chapter X: The Ascent of the Spirit, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 (6)

The meaning of this last conviction seems plain therefore: "_Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged._" Recall the words of Jesus as he stood face to face with the cross: "Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast out" (John 12: 31). "The accuser of the brethren" is at last non-suited and ejected from court. The death of Christ is the death of death, and of the author of death also. "That through death he might destroy him that hath the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who, through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage" (Heb. 2: 14, 15). If the relation of Satan to our judgment and condemnation is mysterious, this much is clear, from this and several passages, that Christ by his cross has delivered us from his dominion. We must believe that Jesus spoke the literal truth when he said: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, _and cometh not into judgment_, but hath passed out of death into life" (John 5: 24, R. V.). On the cross Christ judged sin and acquitted those who believe on him; and in heaven he defends them against every re-arrest by a violated law. {200} "There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus" (Rom. 8: 1). Thus the threefold conviction brings the sinner the three stages of Christ's redemptive work, past judgment and past condemnation into eternal acceptance with the Father.

In striking antithesis with all this, we have an instance in the Acts of the threefold conviction of conscience, when Paul before Felix "reasoned of _righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment to come_" (Acts 24: 25). Here the sin of a profligate life was laid bare as the apostle discoursed of chastity; the claims of righteousness were vindicated, and the certainty of coming judgment exhibited; and with the only effect that "Felix trembled." So it must ever be under the convictions of conscience,--compunction but not peace. We have also an instructive contrast exhibited in Scripture, between the co-witness of the Spirit and the co-witness of conscience. "_The Spirit himself beareth witness_ (_summarturei_) that we are the children of God" (Rom. 8: 16). Here is the assurance of sonship, with all the divine inward persuasion of freedom from condemnation which it carries. On the other hand is the conviction of the heathen, who have only the law written in their hearts: "_Their conscience bearing witness_ (_summarturousês_), their thoughts one with another accusing, or else excusing them, in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men" {201} (Rom. 2: 15, 16). Conscience can "accuse," and how universally it does so, abundant testimony of Christian missionaries shows; and conscience can "excuse," which is the method that guilty thoughts invariably suggest; but _conscience cannot justify_. Only the Spirit of truth, whom the Father hath sent forth into the world, can do this. The work of the two witnesses may be thus set in contrast:

_Conscience Convinces_-- _The Comforter Convinces_--
Of sin committed; Of sin committed;
Of righteousness impossible; Of righteousness imputed;
Of judgment accomplished. Of judgment impending.

Happily these two witnesses may be harmonized, as they are by that atonement which reconciles man to himself, as well as reconciles man to God. Very significantly does the Epistle to the Hebrews, in inviting our approach to God make, as the condition of that approach, the "having our hearts _sprinkled from an evil conscience_." As the High Priest carried the blood into the Holy of Holies in connection with the old dispensation, so does the Spirit take the blood of Christ into the inner sanctuary of our spirit in the more wondrous economy of the new dispensation, in order that he may "cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God" (Heb. 9: 14). Blessed is the man who is thus made at one with himself while made at one with God, so that he can say: "I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, _my conscience also {202} bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost_" (Rom. 9: 11). The believer's conscience dwelling in the Spirit, even as his life is "hid with Christ in God," both having the same mind and bearing the same testimony--this is the end of redemption and this is the victory of the atoning blood.

[1] For as the ministry of Enoch was sealed by his reception into heaven, and as the ministry of Elijah was also abundantly proved by his translation, so also the righteousness and innocence of Christ. But it was necessary that the ascension of Christ should be more fully attested, because upon his righteousness, so fully proved by his ascension, we must depend for all our righteousness. For if God had not approved him after his resurrection, and he had not taken his seat at his right hand, we could by no means be accepted of God.--_Cartwright_.

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X

THE ASCENT OF THE SPIRIT

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"The Apostle Paul evidently saw the redemption of the bodies of the saints and their manifestation as the sons of God and with them the redemption of the whole creation from its present bondage to be the complete harvest of the Spirit, whereof the church doth now possess only the first-fruits, that is, the first ripe grains which could be formed into a sheaf and presented in the temple as a wave-offering unto the Lord. 'That Holy Spirit of Promise which is the earnest of our inheritance,' saith the same apostle--the earnest, like the first-fruit, being only a part of that which is to be earned . . . yet a sufficient surety that the whole shall in the fullness of the times, be likewise ours."--_Edward Irving_.

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X

THE ASCENT OF THE SPIRIT

"He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens." So writes the apostle concerning the Paraclete who is now with the Father, "Jesus Christ the righteous" (Eph. 4: 9). And what is true of the one is true of that "other Paraclete," the Holy Ghost, who was sent down to abide with us during this age. When he has accomplished his temporal mission in the world he will return to heaven in the body which he has fashioned for himself--that "one new man," the regenerate church, gathered out from both Jews and Gentiles during this dispensation. For what is the rapture of the saints predicted by the apostle when, at the sound of the trumpet and the resurrection of the righteous dead, "we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air?" (1 Thess. 4: 17). It is the earthly Christ rising to meet the heavenly Christ; the elect church, gathered in the Spirit and named _o christos_, (1 Cor. 12: 12,) taken up to be united in glory with "Christ, the Head of the church, himself the Saviour of the body" {206} (Eph. 5: 23, R. V.). In the council at Jerusalem this is announced as the distinctive work of the Spirit in this dispensation "to gather out _a people for his name_." It was not by accident and as a term of derision that the first believers received their name; but "the disciples were divinely called _Christians_ first in Antioch" (Acts 11: 26). This was the name pre-ordained for them, that "honorable name" by which they are called (James 2: 7). When, therefore, this out-gathering shall have been accomplished, and _the people for his name_ shall be completed, they will be translated to be one with him in glory, as they were one with him in name, the Head taking the body to himself, "as Christ also, the church" (Eph. 5: 29). And this translation of the church is to be effected by the Holy Spirit who dwells in her. "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you" (Rom. 8: 11). It is not by acting upon the body of Christ from without, but by energizing it from within, that the Holy Ghost will effect its glorification. In a word, the Comforter, who on the day of Pentecost, came down to form a body out of flesh, will at the _Parousia_ return to heaven in that body, having fashioned it like unto the body of Christ, that it may be presented to him "not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, . . . holy {207} and without blemish" (Eph. 5: 27). Is it meant to be implied in what is here said that the Comforter is to leave the world at the time of the advent, to return no more? By no means. And yet what is meant needs to be very explicitly set forth.

A very able writer on the doctrine of the Spirit makes this remark, so striking and yet so true that we have put it in italics: "_As Christ shall ultimately give up his kingdom to the Father_ (1 Cor. 15: 24-28), _so the Holy Ghost shall give up his administration to the Son, when he comes in glory and all his holy angels with him_."[1] The church and the kingdom are not identical terms, if we mean by the kingdom the visible reign and government of Jesus Christ on earth. In another sense they are identical. As the King, so the kingdom. The King is present now in the world, only invisibly and by the Holy Spirit; so the kingdom is now present invisibly and spiritually in the hearts of believers. The King is to come again visibly and gloriously; so shall the kingdom appear visibly and gloriously. In other words, the kingdom is already here in mystery; it is to be here in manifestation. Now the spiritual kingdom is administered by the Holy Ghost, and it extends from Pentecost to _Parousia_. At the _Parousia_--the appearing of the Son of Man in glory--when he shall take unto himself his great power and reign (Rev. 11: 17), when he who has {208} now gone into a far country, to be invested with a kingdom, shall return and enter upon his government (Luke 19: 15), then the invisible shall give way to the visible; the kingdom in mystery shall emerge into the kingdom in manifestation, and the Holy Spirit's administration shall yield to that of Christ.

Here our discussion properly ends, since the age-ministry of the Holy Spirit terminates with the return of Jesus Christ in glory. But there is an "age to come" (Heb. 6: 5), succeeding "the present evil age" (Gal. 1: 4), and we may, in closing, take a glimpse at that for the light which it may throw upon the present dispensation.

What significance has the phrase, "_the first-fruits of the Spirit_," which several times occurs in the New Testament? The first-fruits is but a handful compared with the whole harvest; and this is what we have in the gift of "the Holy Spirit of promise, _which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession_" (Eph. 1: 13, 14). The harvest, to which all the first-fruits look forward, is at the appearing of the Lord. Christ, by his rising from the dead, became "_the first-fruits of them that slept_" (1 Cor. 15: 20). The full harvest, of course, is at the advent, when "they that are Christ's at his coming" shall be raised up (1 Cor. 15: 23). So of the Holy Ghost. We have all the Spirit, but _not all of the Spirit_. As a person of {209} the God-head, he is here in his entirety; but as to his ministry, we have as yet but a part or earnest of his full blessing. To make this statement plain, let us observe that the work of the Holy Spirit, during this entire dispensation, is elective. He gathers from Jew and Gentile the body of Christ, the _ecclesia_, the called-out. This is his peculiar work in this gospel age. In a word, the present is the age of election, and not of universal ingathering.

But is this all we have to hope for? Let the word of God answer. Paul, in considering the hope of Israel, says that there is at this present time "_a remnant according to the election of grace_"; and a little farther on he declares that in connection with the coming of the Deliverer "_all Israel shall be saved_" (Rom. 11: 5, 26). Here is an elective out-gathering, and then a universal in-gathering; or, as the apostle sums it up in this same chapter: "_If the first-fruits be holy, so also the lump_." On the other hand, James, speaking by the Holy Ghost concerning the Gentiles, says first that "God did visit the Gentiles _to take out of them a people for his name_," and "after this will I return," etc., "that the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and _all the Gentiles upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord_" (Acts 15: 14, 17). Here, again, is first an elective out-gathering and then a total in-gathering.

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Now, by looking at other scriptures, it seems clear that the Holy Spirit is the divine agent in both these redemptions, the partial and the total. If we refer to Joel's great prophecy: "_I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh_," and then to Peter's reference to the same, as recorded in the Acts, we are led to ask, Was this prediction completely fulfilled on the day of Pentecost? Clearly not. Peter, with inspired accuracy, says: "_This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel_," without affirming that herein the prophecy of Joel was entirely fulfilled. Turning back to the prediction itself, we find that it includes within its sweep "the great and the terrible day of the Lord," and the "bringing again of the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem" (Joel 2: 31; 3: 1), events which are clearly yet future. If again we examine the vivid prophecy of Israel's conversion, we observe that their looking upon him whom they pierced, and mourning for him, follows the prediction: "And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication" (Zech. 12: 10). So in the picture of the desolations of Jerusalem, as they have actually existed during the present age, the prophet represents this judgment of thorns and briars and forsaken palaces and desertion of population, as continuing "_until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high_" (Isaiah 32: 15).

Indeed the Scriptures seem to be harmonious in {211} their teaching that, after the present elective work of the Spirit has been completed, there will come a time of universal blessing, when the Spirit shall literally be "poured out upon all flesh"; when "that which is perfect shall come" and "that which is in part shall be done away."

Thus in the doctrine of the Spirit there is a constant reference to the final consummation. "The Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed _unto the day of redemption_," says Paul (Eph. 4: 30). Again: "Ourselves also which have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves, groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, _the redemption of our body_" (Rom. 8: 23).

All which the Comforter has yet brought us, or can now bring us, is only the first sheaf of the great harvest of redemption which awaits us on our Lord's return. "Ye have received _the Spirit of adoption_, whereby we cry Abba, Father" (Rom. 8: 15); but for the adoption itself we wait; sons of God already by birth from above, we with the whole creation yet wait for "_the manifestation of the sons of God_" (Rom. 8: 19).

To his tender exhortation to be patient until the coming of the Lord, which James writes in the first chapter of his epistle, there is added the suggestive illustration: "Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it until it receive the early and latter rain." {212} As in husbandry the one rain belonged to the time of sowing, and the other to the time of harvest, so in redemption the early rain of the Spirit was at Pentecost, the latter rain will be at the Parousia; the one fell upon the world as the first sowers went forth into the world to sow, the other will accompany "the harvest which is the end of the age," and will fructify the earth for the final blessing of the age to come, bringing repentance to Israel and the remission of sins, "that the times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send Jesus Christ, before appointed for you, whom the heavens must receive until the times of the restitution of all things" (Acts 3: 19-21).

[1] "Through the Eternal Spirit," by Elder Cumming, D. D., p. 185.

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SCRIPTURE INDEX

PAGE

Genesis 50: 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Exodus 30: 30-33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Leviticus 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Leviticus 23: 11-16 . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Leviticus 8: 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Leviticus 14: 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

1 Samuel 16: 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

2 Samuel 23: 2, 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

1 Kings 19: 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Psalms 133: 1, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Psalms 17: 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Psalms 84: 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Psalms 17: 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Isaiah 11: 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Isaiah 59: 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Isaiah 32: 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Joel 2: 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Joel 3: 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Amos 9: 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Zechariah 12: 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Matthew 3: 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Matthew 12: 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Matthew 3: 11, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Matthew 16: 24, 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Matthew 6: 27, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Matthew 18: 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Mark 13: 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Mark 12: 36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Luke 3: 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Luke 4: 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Luke 4: 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Luke 10: 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Luke 2: 1, 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Luke 2: 34, 35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Luke 19: 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

John 14: 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
John 1: 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
John 20: 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
John 15: 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
John 14: 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
John 14: 18; 14: 26; 16: 13 . . . . . . . 39
John 16: 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
John 14: 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
John 16: 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
John 14: 12; 15: 26 . . . . . . . . . . . 44
John 16: 8-10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
John 16: 12, 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
John 16: 13, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
John 16: 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
John 14: 18; 14: 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
John 1: 33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
John 3: 16; 1: 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
John 1: 33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
John 6: 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
John 3: 33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
John 2: 23, 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

John 16: 13; 14: 17; 15: 26; 16: 13 . . . 92
John 3: 31; 8: 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
John 3: 7, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
John 13: 35. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
John 1: 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
John 14: 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
John 16: 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
John 20: 22, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
John 6: 63, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
John 15: 15; 17: 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
John 16: 8, R. V.; 14: 17 . . . . . . . . 187
John 16: 8, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
John 15: 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
John 15: 26, 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
John 16: 13, R. V.; 14: 19 . . . . . . . . 196
John 12: 31; 5: 24, R. V. . . . . . . . . 199

Acts 9: 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Acts 2: 41; 5: 14; 11: 24 . . . . . . . . 55
Acts 10: 38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Acts 11: 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Acts 2: 38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Acts 8: 14-17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Acts 1: 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Acts 2: 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Acts 9: 17; 4: 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Acts 4: 31; 6: 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Acts 4: 27, R. V.; 10: 38 . . . . . . . . 88
Acts 15: 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Acts 20: 28, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Acts 10: 44 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Acts 5: 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Acts 1: 8, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Acts 13: 2; 13: 4; 13: 9; 13: 52 . . . . . 160
Acts 15: 8; 15: 28; 16: 6, 7 . . . . . . . 161
Acts 1: 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Acts 15: 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Acts 7: 38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Acts 7: 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Acts 3: 14, 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Acts 2: 33; 5: 30-32 . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Acts 13: 39, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Acts 24: 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Acts 11: 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Acts 15: 14, 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Acts 3: 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Romans 1: 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Romans 8: 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Romans 6: 3, 4; 8: 2 . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Romans 6: 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Romans 11: 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Romans 1: 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Romans 6: 3, 4; 7: 4 . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Romans 6: 11, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Romans 8: 13; 8: 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Romans 15: 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Romans 8: 23; 8: 11 . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Romans 12: 2, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Romans 1: 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Romans 8: 26, 27, R. V. . . . . . . . . . 148
Romans 8: 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Romans 11: 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Romans 3: 2, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Romans 8: 1; 8: 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Romans 2: 15, 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Romans 9: 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Romans 8: 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Romans 11: 6, 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Romans 8: 23; 8: 15; 8: 19 . . . . . . . . 211

1 Corinthians 12: 12 . . . . . . . . . . . 54
1 Corinthians 12: 13 . . . . . . . . . . . 55
1 Corinthians 10: 1 . . . . . . . . . . . 57
1 Corinthians 2: 11, R. V. . . . . . . . . 90
1 Corinthians 12: 3 . . . . . . . . . . . 91
1 Corinthians 15: 51, 52 . . . . . . . . . 120
1 Corinthians 15: 52; 15: 44 . . . . . . . 125
1 Corinthians 3: 16 . . . . . . . . . . . 130
1 Corinthians 2: 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
1 Corinthians 10: 11 . . . . . . . . . . . 156
1 Corinthians 12: 11, R. V. . . . . . . . 166
1 Corinthians 2: 10-13 . . . . . . . . . . 173
1 Corinthians 14: 37 . . . . . . . . . . . 180
1 Corinthians 2: 9, 10 . . . . . . . . . . 181
1 Corinthians 12: 3, R. V. . . . . . . . . 195
1 Corinthians 6: 11 . . . . . . . . . . . 196
1 Corinthians 2: 9, 10 . . . . . . . . . . 197
1 Corinthians 12: 12 . . . . . . . . . . . 205
1 Corinthians 15: 24-28 . . . . . . . . . 207
1 Corinthians 15: 20; 15: 23 . . . . . . . 208

2 Corinthians 1: 21, 22 . . . . . . . . . 78
2 Corinthians 1: 21, R. V. . . . . . . . . 88
2 Corinthians 5: 14, R. V. . . . . . . . . 110
2 Corinthians 3: 18, R. V. . . . . . . . . 113
2 Corinthians 3: 18 . . . . . . . . . . . 123
2 Corinthians 3: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Galatians 5: 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Galatians 4: 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Galatians 3: 2; 3: 14 . . . . . . . . . . 71
Galatians 4: 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Galatians 2: 20, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . 110
Galatians 5: 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Galatians 1: 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Galatians 1: 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Galatians 6: 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Galatians 6: 8, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . 160
Galatians 1: 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Ephesians 1: 7; 3: 16 . . . . . . . . . . 42
Ephesians 1: 20, 21 . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Ephesians 4: 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Ephesians 6: 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Ephesians 4: 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Ephesians 1: 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Ephesians 4: 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Ephesians 5: 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Ephesians 4: 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Ephesians 2: 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Ephesians 4: 8-12, R. V. . . . . . . . . . 134
Ephesians 6: 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Ephesians 5: 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Ephesians 2: 22, R. V.; 3: 16, R. V.;
2: 18, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . 154
Ephesians 4: 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Ephesians 5: 23; 5: 29 . . . . . . . . . . 206
Ephesians 5: 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Ephesians 1: 13, 14 . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Ephesians 4: 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Philippians 2: 6, 7, R. V. . . . . . . . 42, 43

Colossians 1: 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Colossians 3: 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Colossians 2: 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Colossians 3: 2, 5, R. V. . . . . . . . . 110
Colossians 3: 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

1 Thessalonians 2: 19 . . . . . . . . . . 50
1 Thessalonians 3: 13 . . . . . . . . . . 60
1 Thessalonians 1: 9 . . . . . . . . . . . 102
1 Thessalonians 5: 23, R. V. . . . . . . . 122
1 Thessalonians 1: 5 . . . . . . . . . . . 144
1 Thessalonians 1: 6 . . . . . . . . . . . 145
1 Thessalonians 4: 18 . . . . . . . . . . 155
1 Thessalonians 4: 17 . . . . . . . . . . 205

2 Thessalonians 2: 4 . . . . . . . . . . . 130

2 Timothy 2: 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
2 Timothy 3: 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Titus 2: 13, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Hebrews 1: 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Hebrews 9: 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Hebrews 1: 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Hebrews 6: 4, 5, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . 121
Hebrews 6: 5, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Hebrews 2: 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Hebrews 7: 25, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Hebrews 3: 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Hebrews 3: 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Hebrews 3: 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Hebrews 1: 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Hebrews 10: 14, 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Hebrews 9: 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Hebrews 2: 14, 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Hebrews 9: 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Hebrews 6: 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

James 1: 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
James 3: 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
James 6: 16; 5: 16, R. V . . . . . . . . . 155
James 2: 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

1 Peter 4: 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
1 Peter 2: 9, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . 89
1 Peter 1: 23, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . 105
1 Peter 4: 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
1 Peter 1: 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
1 Peter 1: 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
1 Peter 1: 23, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . 170
1 Peter 1: 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
1 Peter 4: 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
1 Peter 3: 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

2 Peter 1: 4, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . 104
2 Peter 1: 21, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . 175

1 John 2: 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
1 John 2: 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
1 John 2: 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
1 John 1: 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
1 John 1: 8, 3: 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
1 John 3: 5, 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
1 John 3: 2, R. V. . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
1 John 4: 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
1 John 2: 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Jude 1: 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Jude 1: 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Jude 1: 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Revelation 22: 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Revelation 1: 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Revelation 3: 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Revelation 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Revelation 2: 7; 14: 13 . . . . . . . . . 170
Revelation 11: 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

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GENERAL INDEX

PAGE

Adam: fall of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
child of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
nature derived from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
inheritance from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Adam life: birth into . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Adolph Monod: farewell of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Age of the Spirit: defined . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Age-work: continuance of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Ambrose: observation of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Ananias and Sapphira: sin of . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 23
Andrews, Bishop: beautiful words of . . . . . . . . . 54
Anointing: Importance of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88, 89
examples of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Ante-Pentecostal days: spiritual nonage of . . . . . . 48
Apostles: Matthias chosen by . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
prerogatives of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
order of, ceased . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Asceticism: inversion of divine order . . . . . . . . 111
Augustine: quotation from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
calls Pentecost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
saying of true . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
replies to rationalists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Baptism: a monogram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Baptized: into Moses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Bengel: statement of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Bible: Holy Ghost breathes within it . . . . . . . . . 170
divine author of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
infallibility of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
a sensitive plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Bickersteth, E. H.: quotation from . . . . . . . . . . 81
Boys, E.: extract from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Butler, Archer: quotation from . . . . . . . . . . . . 30