CONTENTS. CHAP. 1. The Necessity of a Great Spiritual Change, 2. A General View of the Spirit's Agency, with reference both to the World and the 3. A General View of the Process of Conversion by which Individuals are translated from 4. The Work of the Spirit in Enlightening the Page THE SPIRIT'S WORK IN THE EDIFICATION OF HIS CHAP. 1. The Spirit's Work as the Spirit of Holiness, 435 2. The Spirit's Work as the Spirit of Adoption, 454 CHAPTER I. THE NECESSITY OF A GREAT SPIRITUAL CHANGE. We have a very solemn statement on this subject from the lips of One whose personal character, as well as his official authority, may well impress our minds with a conviction of its certain and infallible truth. It comes to us from the lips of Jesus-that same Jesus who is the Saviour-the only Saviour of sinners; who pitied us in our lost estate, and entered into a covenant with God on our behalf, and engaged in his own person to render the price of our redemption; and left the throne of heaven, and appeared as a man on earth—a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross, that same Jesus who afterwards ascended up into heaven, and sat down with his Father on his throne to whom all power is given in heaven and on earth, who, as mediatorial king, is now carrying on the administration of the scheme of grace, and will ere long come in the clouds of heaven to judge the quick and the dead, that same Jesus declares, and that, too, with the solemnity of a most emphatic asseveration, "Verily, verily, I SAY unto thee, except a man B |