Author: Edward Irving

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9781230407852

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ... more wonderful: but that it should be made capable of receiving and sustaining the life of God, of having his mind, and of working his works, is a thing which passeth understanding, being in very deed the mighty power of God. The great account which is made of the resurrection of Christ, in all the Scriptures, as " the exceeding greatness of God's mighty working" (Eph. i.), and of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, which is the first-fruits thereof--called " the power from on high," as if nothing else were worthy of that name--do prove how much more vast is this than every other manifestation of Godhead unto men. To make this erroneous mind of ours capable of discerning truth infallibly, to make this trembling and stammering lip capable of uttering words before which death and the grave and the devil stand discovered and dismantled, to make this fearful heart capable of confidence in the face of all ungodly confederations, and this palsied hand to strengthen with all the power of God--these are things which far surpass the speculation, and almost the belief, of man. And had we not seen it accomplished in the feebleness of Jesus Christ, who calleth himself " a worm, and no man," we should not have believed it possible to be done in mortal man: and had we not the assurance of Him who is the Truth, that the like works, and greater, were to be done in them who believe, we should have thought it a very wonderful thing, done once, upon an extraordinary occasion, for an extraordinary end, by one who was an extraordinary person, God as well as man, and never to be renewed again: but having his word and the facts of all the Apostolical history for it, we believe, as we have written, that this is the third and highest sphere of God's operation in man, ...

Download or read book The Day of Pentecost, Or, the Baptism with the Holy Ghost; a Treatise in Three Parts written by Edward Irving and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ... more wonderful: but that it should be made capable of receiving and sustaining the life of God, of having his mind, and of working his works, is a thing which passeth understanding, being in very deed the mighty power of God. The great account which is made of the resurrection of Christ, in all the Scriptures, as " the exceeding greatness of God's mighty working" (Eph. i.), and of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, which is the first-fruits thereof--called " the power from on high," as if nothing else were worthy of that name--do prove how much more vast is this than every other manifestation of Godhead unto men. To make this erroneous mind of ours capable of discerning truth infallibly, to make this trembling and stammering lip capable of uttering words before which death and the grave and the devil stand discovered and dismantled, to make this fearful heart capable of confidence in the face of all ungodly confederations, and this palsied hand to strengthen with all the power of God--these are things which far surpass the speculation, and almost the belief, of man. And had we not seen it accomplished in the feebleness of Jesus Christ, who calleth himself " a worm, and no man," we should not have believed it possible to be done in mortal man: and had we not the assurance of Him who is the Truth, that the like works, and greater, were to be done in them who believe, we should have thought it a very wonderful thing, done once, upon an extraordinary occasion, for an extraordinary end, by one who was an extraordinary person, God as well as man, and never to be renewed again: but having his word and the facts of all the Apostolical history for it, we believe, as we have written, that this is the third and highest sphere of God's operation in man, ...