Volume 1
An ecclesiastical biography, containing the lives of ancient fathers and modern divines, interspersed with notices of heretics and schismatics. Forming a brief history of the church in every age / by Walter Farquhar Hook.
- Walter Farquhar Hook
- Date:
- 1845-1852
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An ecclesiastical biography, containing the lives of ancient fathers and modern divines, interspersed with notices of heretics and schismatics. Forming a brief history of the church in every age / by Walter Farquhar Hook. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Holy Ghost) is unto you,” &. . . . that is, the Holy Spirit is promised to all, how far soever distant in place and time, whoever shall be invited unto, and shall embrace the Christian profession. St John also maketh it to be a distinctive mark of those, in whom Christ abideth, and who dwell in Christ, that is, of all true Christians, to have this Spirit; ‘‘ Hereby [saith he] we know that he abideth in us by the Spirit,” &... .. and St Paul denieth him to be a good Christian who is destitute thereof. “Now (saith he) if any man have not the Spirit,” &.... “and know ye not, (saith he to the Corinthians) that ye are the femple; Wen 60%. that is, Do ye not understand this to be a common privilege of all Christians, such as ye pro- fess yourselves to be? And the conversion of men to Christianity he thus expresseth, ‘‘ After the kindness and love of God our Saviour,” &c. (Tit. iii. 4.).... And all pious dispositions qualifying us for entrance into heaven and happiness (faith, charity, devotion, every grace, every virtue) are represented to be the fruits of the Holy Spirit. And the union of all Christians into one body; the catho- lic society of all truly faithful people, doth, according to St Paul, result from this one Spirit, as a common soul animating and actuating them: ‘“ For (saith he) by one Spirit they are all baptized,” &c. . ‘Jn fine, whatever some few persons, or some petty sects (as the Pelagians of old, the Socinians now) may have deemed, it hath been the doctrine constantly, and with very general consent, delivered in the Catholic church, that on all persons by the holy mystery of Baptism duly initiated to Christianity, or admitted into the communion of Christ’s body, the grace of God’s Holy Spirit certainly is bestowed, enabling them to perform the conditions of piety and virtue then undertaken by them; enlightening their minds, rectifying their wills, purifying their affec- tions, directing and assisting them in their practice; the which holy gift (if not abused, il treated, driven away, or quenched by their ill behaviour) will perpetually be con- tinued, improved, and increased to them; it is therefore](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33029416_0001_0571.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
