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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: CHAPTER III. THE HOLT SPIRIT IN VICARIOUS SACRIFICE. Having showed, in my last chapter, that the Creator and God of the former dispensation, sometimes called the Father in that relation, was inserted into our human conditions in just the same vicarious feeling as Christ was in His incarnate suffering, and bore our sins as truly, and wrestled for us in the same tender burdens of love, I now undertake to show the same in respect to the Holy Spirit after Christ; that He works in love as Christ did, and suffers all the incidents of love?compassion, wounded feeling, sorrow, concern, burdened sympathy, violated patience?taking men upon Him, to bear them and their sins, precisely as Christ Himself did in His sacrifice. He is, in fact, a Christ continued, in all that distinguishes the offering and priesthood of Christ, and is fitly represented in the same way, under a priestly figure, as our intercessor. I am well aware how very distant all such conceptions are from the commonly received impressions of the Holy Spirit. For it is a remarkable fact, apart from all conceptions of, - rmai jtSlrig a properly vicarious sacrifice in His and c/acr- ministry, that even where His personality is much insisted on, almost nothing is left Him commonly in the matter of feeling and character that belongs topersonality. Probably enough the reason may be that when we pray, as we familiarly do, that God will send, or give, the Holy Spirit; or shed down, or shed abroad, or pour out, or breathe the Holy Spirit; we allow such figures to carry their meaning too literally, and so fall into the way of regarding Him, unwittingly, as a mere influence; some invisible missive, or fluid, or magnetic force, traversing unseen the hidden depths of souls, to work God's purpose in them. However this may be, i...
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