A Confession of Faith for the Average Christian

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...time, he who believes that the work of the Spirit is the work of Satan is not likely to permit that Spirit to lead him to salvation. The Jews to whom the Lord said that all sin has forgiveness except the sin against the Holy Ghost were practically declaring that Jesus was working through the power of the Devil when He was working through the power of the Spirit will no longer convict you of sin; and you will worried about having committed the unpardonable sin, you have not committed it. If you are guilty of it, the Spirit. Of one thing you may feel certain--if you are not worry about it, because a man does not convict himself of guilt. To sum up concerning the work of the Third Person of the Trinity in relation to the unsaved, I believe He convicts them of sin, and points them to righteousness; that He convinces them of judgment that follows sin; and that He no longer convicts the man who has sinned against Him. HIS RELATION TO CHRISTIANS When an unsaved man determines to forsake sin and accept Christ as his Savior, it is the Spirit who changes him from a child of Satan to a child of God. No man can be a Christian and an heir to eternal life, unless he is born anew through the power of the Comforter. Ye must be born again. Having been born from above, there are many rela-r tions that the new person bears to the Paraclete. To the disciples-who were sorrowful because they were about to lose the presence of the Master, to follow Whom they had forsaken all, and in Whom they had put all their trust, Jesus said He would send the Comforter. The Comforter would cheer the hearts of those early disciples and give them courage to meet persecution and trials that were in store for them. To every discouraged and sorrowing child of God the Spirit comes with t...