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The prominence and emphasis given in the New Testa ment to the Holy Spirit are at once the cause and the Vindica tion of these utterances, and we may legitimately argue that the importance of the subject can be rightly measured by the place given to it. Other doctrines of great importance, as, for example, those of the Church and the Sacraments, do not obtain anything like the notice given in the New Testament to the Holy Spirit. No one can fail to be impressed with the frequency, variety, fulness and promi nemce of the references to the Spirit all through the New Testament Scriptures. Instead of stopping with the Resurrection, the New Testament leads on to the subject of the Holy Spirit and His work.

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For several years past the reading and collection of books on the Holy Spirit has been a matter of great interest to me, and when the invitation came to deliver the Stone Lectures at Princeton it seemed a favourable opportunity for putting together the available material. The object I had cherished for some time was to provide a Monograph for students, with references and Bibliography. In The London Quarterly Review for April, 1905, Dr. W. T. Davison, in an article on 'The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit,' described almost exactly what had been in my mind.

'The treatise for which the Church waits must be comprehensive enough to include branches of it which have been treated in a disconnected and fragmentary way, whilst sufficiently instinct with spiritual life to blend them into one living and organic whole. It should briefly trace the development of revelation through the Old Testament, showing what fresh light on the Person and Work of the Holy Spirit is shed by the New. The bearing of the doctrine on the interior relations of the Godhead should be expounded, so far as Scripture gives guidance on a profoundly mysterious subject. The offices of the Spirit in relation to Christ and the believer can more easily be explained and illustrated. On the question of the relation between the Spirit and the Church widely different opinions are held by different sections of Christendom, and it is on this ground that so many divergent paths have been taken by "heretics" of various schools.... A complete treatise on the work of the Holy Spirit should show the significance of these several religious movements and the measure of truth and falsity in each.'

'This kind of work has, however, been undertaken, and more or less imperfectly accomplished. What has not been attempted is a study of the chief "building eras of religion," under the guidance of the Spirit, as this is understood by Protestants and all who do not accept the Romanist doctrine of infallibility.

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