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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: ing the conscience to feel and acknowledge it, and converting the heart to love and obey it. And thus his gracious influence is discovered in the personal qualities and actions of the renewed man, which are, therefore, called " the fruit of the Spirit." II. THE EFFECTS OF THE HoLY SPIRIT'S WORK, AS MANIFESTED IN THE GRACES OF CHRISTIAN CHARACTER. " The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance." LOVE. St. Paul holds forth to us a rich cluster of graces, but he names first the stem from which the rest hang. For as upon Christ, the living vine, all the living branches grow, and from the Spirit, through Him, derive their vigour and fruitfulness; so it is from love the other graces proceed, and through love are ripened unto perfection. And yet it were an unworthy figure to make love, the sweetest fruit of the cluster, a mere stem, which is dry and tasteless. We should rather compare these graces to fruits, which seem to grow the one out of the other, love being the first formed and chiefest. Love has never been accurately defined, but we know it to be that affection which has delight in its objects, and desires their welfare. A rational being loves not without a reason, which seems to him good. The reasons of a Christian's love are drawn from the word of God, guiding and governing the sensibilities of his soul. He loves God, because of his holy excellence, his loving-kindness toward him, and the enjoyment he has in his communion. He loves those to whom he is bound by the closer ties of life, not only because of the natural affections the Creator has implanted in his heart, but because God has, in a greater or less degree, entrusted their welfare to his care. He loves Christians, because they are belo. Books History~~General Fruit-Of-The-Spirit~~George-Washington-Bethune General Books LLC This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Mentz & Rovoudt in 1845 in 318 pages; Subjects: Christian life; Holy Spirit; History / General; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Religion / Christian Life / General; Religion / Christian Theology / Pneumatology; Religion / Christian Theology / Soteriology;<

ISBN: 9780217589734

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1845. Excerpt: ... VIII. FAITH. It may seem strange to some that the apostle should not have named faith first of all, instead of after several Christian graces, as we are taught in the Scriptures, that faith in Christ is the life of Christian morality, suggesting the affection of love for God and man, and moving us to a correspondent course of conduct; and, especially, as the apostle Peter, in a passage almost parallel to the one before us, exhorts his brethren to add to their faith some of these very graces here named before it. (2 Peter, i. 5, 6, 7.) The explanation, however, is, that the word is not here to be understood in its more common sense. Faith, in its pure signification, is belief in.testimony, as distinguished from personal knowledge. We believe that there is such a country as China, though we may never have seen it; and that there once lived such a man as Julius Caesar, though he died nearly nineteen hundred years ago, because we have had sufficient testimony to convince us of both facts; but we know that we exist by our own consciousness, and need no further proof from others to assure us, nor could any testimony convince us to the contrary. We speak sometimes figuratively of the testimony of our senses, but strictly, what we perceive by our own senses, we know of ourselves. When faith in testimony is exercised about things in which we are personally concerned, it will, in due proportion to its strength, influence our conduct. If a man be ill of some dangerous disease, and is told by a physician in whose veracity and skill he has entire faith, that a certain remedy will restore him to health, he will take that remedy. If one, whom we believe to be a person of truth and ability, offers us his friendship and aid in difficult circumstances, and we need his kindness, we will rely and co... George Washington Bethune, Books, History, The Fruit of the Spirit Books>History This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Mentz & Rovoudt in 1845 in 318 pages; Subjects: Christian life; Holy Spirit; History / General; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Religion / Christian Life / General; Religion / Christian Theology / Pneumatology; Religion / Christian Theology / Soteriology;<