Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

122 THE SECOND MAN VERIFIED IN HISTORY.with which our Lord foretold to His apostles thatthey should be invested, and for which He badethem wait. The whole field of truth as it respectsthe relation of God to His creatures as moral beings,and the whole extent of grace, as it touchesthe human will, for the performance of every actwhich a reasonable creature can execute, madeup the extent of that divine indwelling in menwhich the Spirit of Christ assumed upon the dayof Pentecost. This was the power of the HolyGhost which then came down upon men. Throughthe whole divine discourse which preceded Hispassion, our Lord dwells upon this double power,referring to Himself as the Truth, to His Spiritas the Spirit of the Truth, to Himself as the Vine,and so that root of grace which should communicateits sap to the branches, and to His Spirit,who should take of His and give it to them;uniting both ideas of Truth and Grace in that oneword, " Sanctify them in thy Truth," that is byincorporation with me, who am the Truth, in mySpirit, who is the Truth. And so the eternWord, having assumed a human Body, when Hwithdraws His corporal presence, proceeds to formthat other human Body, the dwelling-place of HisSpirit, in which His Truth and Grace are to becomevisible.Thus the transfusion of Truth and Grace fromthe Incarnate Word to His mystical Body is thegeneric character of the Giving of the Spirit.