THE ONLY WAY TO VICTORY
By
Samuel Chadwick
1
DO WE BELIEVE IN THE HOLY GHOST?
The Apostles Creed contains ten articles on the Person and Work of Christ, and only one on
the Holy Spirit.
The proportion of ten to one about represents the interest in the...
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THE ONLY WAY TO VICTORY
By
Samuel Chadwick
1
DO WE BELIEVE IN THE HOLY GHOST?
The Apostles Creed contains ten articles on the Person and Work of Christ, and only one on
the Holy Spirit.
The proportion of ten to one about represents the interest in the doctrine of the
Spirit in the history of Christian thought.
No doctrine of the Christian faith has been so
neglected.
Sermons and hymns are singularly barren on this subject, and the last great book on
the Spirit was written in 1674.
This is all the more remarkable when we remember that the Holy
Spirit is the ultimate fact of Revelation and the unique force in Redemption.
No other religion
has anything corresponding to the Christian doctrine of the Spirit, and in the Christian religion
there is nothing so vital, pervasive, and effective.
John Owen speaks of it as the touchstone of
faith; the one article by which the Church stands or falls.
Thomas Arnold said it is "the very main
thing of all.
We are living under the dispensation
Less
