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takes His denomination “Holy Spirit” from His office as 
Sanctifier. It is natural to conclude that the department of 
our nature in which. His agency is more immediately exer- 
cised, is that which resembles His own. “ That which is born 
of the spirit is spirit.” Regeneration begins in the pneuma, 
but extends to the psyche. Its effect is felt by the intellect 
and affections, which are brought under the control of the 
renewed pneuma. Between the holy soul and its Redeemer 
there is a unity of nature and life : “ He that is joined to the 
Lord is one spirit.” He dwells in God, and God in him. 
59. That our spirit is the seat of the religious consciousness, 
is the direct teaching of Paul in Rom. viii. “ The Spirit Him- 
self beareth witness to our spirits that we are the children of 
God.” 
60. No man needs a divine quickening to make him active 
in a psychical sense; to make him pneumatical he needs 
the quickening of the Holy Spirit. When renewed in “ the 
spirit of his mind,” that is, made spiritually-minded, his con- 
dition, the apostle tells us, is that of “ life and peace.” It is 
in the pneuma, where the faculty of “ God-consciousness,” as 
it has been forcibly called by Heard in his book on man^s 
tripartite nature, resides, that man is in that morally torpid 
condition which Scripture calls death. Men without the 
renewing of the Divine Spirit may possess the dread of God ; 
but love to God, childlike affection and confidence, they pos- 
sess not. 
61. That divine grace is regarded as dwelling in the spirit 
may be seen from such passages as these : “ That the righte- 
ousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk, not after 
the flesh, but after the spirit.” “ They that are after the flesh 
d° mind the things of the flesh ; and they that are after the 
spirit, the things of the spirit.” “ The flesh desires against 
the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh. ” The Psalmist 
pronounces the man blessed in whose spirit there is no guile. 
His prayer for himself, on the remembrance of his great sin, is. 
Create in me a clean heart, 0 God, and renew a right spirit 
within me. Exercise and cultivation will improve our intel- 
lect and bodily powers ; but holy Scripture teaches ns that 
the pneuma in us can only be quickened and raised to the 
eu J°yment of God by His Holy Spirit. To enjoy Him we must 
resemble Him, and it is the office of His Spirit to make us like 
Hun. The natural conscience of the pneuma may condemn 
sin, but it has little power to hold back from its commission. 
It may approve the right; but it wants strength to propel us 
onward m the path of duty. 
62. Disease in the body follows lowness of the vital power. 
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