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Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

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118 THE SECOND MAN VERIFIED IN HISTORY.from on high, who, dwelling for ever in the disciples,makes the Church.But these words, so singular and so forcible,which He uses on these two occasions, at Hisresurrection and His ascension, are themselves areference to the long discourse which He had heldwith His apostles on the night <strong>of</strong> His passion. Itis in this discourse, from the moment that Judasleft them to the conclusion <strong>of</strong> the divine prayerand if we can make any distinction in His words,surely these are the most solemn which were everput together in human language, since they arethe prayer not <strong>of</strong> a creature to the Creator, butthe prayer <strong>of</strong> One divine Person to Another-itis in this discourse that He describes the powerfrom on high with which, as the promise <strong>of</strong> theFather, He, the Son, would invest His disciples.It is here He says that He would ask the Father,who should give them another Paraclete, the Spirit<strong>of</strong> truth, to abide with them for ever : whom theworld would not receive, nor see, nor know, butwhom they should know, because He should abidewith them and be in them. This other Paraclete,coequal therefore with Himself, whom the Fathershould send in His name, and whom He shouldsend from the Father the Sirit <strong>of</strong> holiness as wellas the Spirit <strong>of</strong> truth, should teach them all thingsand remind them <strong>of</strong> all His teaching. And Hiscoming, though invisible, should pr<strong>of</strong>it them morethan His own visible presence. For while He

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