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And St. Paul cites one passage from Deut. 25:4, and an other from Luke 10:7, without distinction, and both as the authoritative written Word of God. Of the Holy Spirit Jesus said, “These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you; hut the com forter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you.” And again, “But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify because ye are with me from the beginning.” And again, “Howbeit when he the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth, for he shall not speak of himself (in dependently of, or contrary to, the Father or the Son), but whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak, and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me; for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you.” Now if this Divine and plenary inspiration was necessary for the apostolic preaching of the Gospel to that generation, it was of tenfold importance for their writings, which are for all 'after generations of believers; and the apostles appeal to their writings as confirming their words, as, for example, St. Paul writes to the Thessalonians, “Remember ye not that when I was yet with you I told you these things?” And for themselves, whether in preaching or writing, the ambassadors of the cross claim to be heard as declaring God’s truth by His authority and by the inspiration of His Spirit. “We have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things which are freely given to us of God; which things we ■speak, NOT IN THE WORDS WHICH MAN’S WISDOM TEACHETH, BUT WHICH THE HOLY GHOST TEACH- ETH, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.” Words so uttered or written are the very voice of God. “If any man,” says the apostle in the same epistle, “think himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.” And in the same way St. John unhesitatingly de clares, “We are of God: He that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us: hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.” The same author ity pervades the whole New Testament, until the closing book of the canon is thus solemnly fenced: “If any man shall add unto these words, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the hook of life, and out of the holy City, and from the things which are written in this book.” From a review of the whole we may surely say, that if language such as that employed by the sacred writers of the Old and New Testament does not claim in fallible inspiration, no words, however exact or express, could claim it. This glorious possession— this choicest heirloom of the family of manS-we owe to the inspiration of the Holy Ghost.
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