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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt:... DISCOURSE VH. MISCELLANEOUS SUGGESTIONS IN REGARD TO THIS DOCTRINE. Eph. hr. at -- "And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." We now draw our discussion of this vital doctrine of Scripture to a close. There axe certain topics of a general nature which will occupy attention in the present discourse. RECAPITULATION OF THE ARGUMENT. No careful reader of the Scriptures at the present time confounds the gift or promise of the Spirit with any miraculous endowments. It is undeniable that these endowments had for ages been in the world, while the " Holy Ghost was not given" until after "Jesus was glorified." We are also positively taught, as we have seen, that "the sealing and earnest of the Spirit" were never accompanied, except in a few instances, by any form of miraculous gifts. "The promise of the Spirit" is to all believers in common. Miraculous gifts may, or may not, be imparted to any, and never were imparted but to a few. The only question in respect to which a difference of opin ion does now obtain, pertains to the inquiry whether "the promise of the Spirit" is fulfilled after or in the act of conversion. How any person who has examined the argument, as presented, can doubt upon the subject, is a mystery to us. Permit us to direct attention to a few considerations which will set the subject in a concise but distinct form before the mind. i. The positive testimony of the Bible. How distinctly, for example, is conversion and the baptism of the Spirit distinguished in Tit. iii. 5: "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost." The gift of the Spirit does not imply conversion, but it...