OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. BY THE REV. CHARLES PREST. THE Spirit itself beareth witness; and what God speaks is infinitely more LONDON: WESLEYAN CONFERENCE OFFICE, 2, CASTLE-STREET, THE WITNESS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, &c. CHAPTER I. SPIRITUAL INFLUENCE, AND THE DIVINE OPERATIONS OF THE HOLY GHOST. In our present state, we ascertain spiritual facts and effects, or, more properly, the facts in the effects; but the mode escapes our scrutiny. This should abate the confidence with which opinions are sometimes expressed concerning spiritual things in general, and more particularly touching those which are the subjects of Divine revelation: opinions which are opposed either to the authoritative announcement of such facts, or to the practical lessons derived from them. We are not required to comprehend, but to believe, these facts. God has a right to require this, having sufficiently authenticated the revelation of these facts by palpable and indisputable evidence. The Christian and other miracles attest the revelation to which they refer, and with which they are connected, as Divine and authoritative; and the facts, to which our assent is B |