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£ 82 . Mr * Jevans on Rom * viii . 9 .
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to produce . " Yes , and most certainly diet help to produce ; it would have been strange if they had not . And thereby such are said to be sealed to the day of redemption . Ephes * iv . 30 .
IV- Now , if any roan have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his . That is to say , as all who are converted to Jesus Christ have the Spirit of God , if you have not tl * e Spirit of God , i . e . the miraculous gifts of the
Spirit of God , you do not belong to Christ ; you are not Christians . You may , indeed , in your hearts believe in him , but you are not yet baptized into him ; or , if you are baptized into him , there is more remains to be done
to make you thoroughly initiated Christians—you must receive Ike miraculous gifts of . the Spirit of God . You are not like the disciples atEphesus , mentioned before , who were neither baptized nor endo \ yed with the Spirit of God . See Acts xhc . 1—7 .
This sense of this passage is supported by Grotius , the prince of commentators , who says * on the words , etc £ < rw ccvth , " Nondum plene Christi est . Nam credere et baptizatum esse non sufficit . " Such a soldier of Jesus
Christ is like a man who is merely enlisted into the army , but has neither received the bounty nor taken the oath of allegiance to his sovereign . He can scarcely be called a soldier yet ; and so it was then with the believer in Christ who had not received
the miraculous gifts . And that this is the true sense of these words , may be further argued , as follows : J . The words that immediately pre * - cede them , and those that follow after , do probably both refer to the miraculous gifts of the Spirit .
In ver . 9 , the apostle says , " If so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you i" and in ver . 10 , " If Christ be in you : " and in ver . 11 , " But if the
spirit of him that raised up Christ from the dead , ( that is the Spirit of God , ) divell in you . " Is it then probable that the apostle would introduce the subject of the Christian temper between two clauses , which relate to
the miraculous gifts of the Spirit ? 2 . If it be said that the language in the two passages is different ; that in the first it is called the Spirit of God , but in this the Spirit of Christ ,
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Acts ii * 37 ~ 39 * Accordingly , when some persons at Samaria were converted to the Christian faith , the apostles at Jerusalem sent Peter and John to them , who baptized them , and afterwards laid their hands on them , and they received the Holy Ghost . Acts viii . 10—17 . So when
Paul came to Ephesus , finding some disciples there , he said unto them , Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed ? And learning that they had not , he laid his hands on them , and the Holy Ghost came on them ,
and they spake / With tongues . Acts xix . 1—6 . In like manner , while Peter was preaching the gospel for the first time at the house of Cornelius , the Holy Ghost fell upon them . Acts xi . 15 . The book of Acts and Paul ' s
Epistles abound with such accounts . So common were the miraculous gifts in that age . III . The miraculous gifts being , in general , imparted to none but sincere Christians , the possession of them proved their piety , and they would
have a very powerful , sanctifying influence on their tempers and characters . They were given in part for this purpose . And they had this effect , in a very sensible degree , even on the holy apostles themselves . Recollect , Sir , how timidly and unfaithfully they
behaved to their Lord and Master , when he was seized and crucified by his enemies ; but with what courage and zeal they maintained his cause after the Spirit descended upon them on the day of Pentecost . Before , they were as fearful as sheep , but after that event they were as bold as lions .
To those who imprisoned them , and forbade them to speak any more in the name of Jesus , they said , ' Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God , judge ye . For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard . " Acts iv- 18—20 . Arch * -
bishop Newcorne says , " The Christians at Rome are spoken of as a collective body , and are supposed to be spiritually minded , because they were strongly obliged so to be , having received the extraordinary gifts of the Spirit . Newcorne in loc . And on Tituiii 8 he Iithat uis in mat
s . , savs , " y renon . o , ue says , i > y renovation of mind which the Holy Ghost , usually communicated to converts in those ages , had the strongest tendency
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1824, page 582, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2529/page/6/
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