Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

170 THE SECOND MAN VERIFIED IN HISTORY.teaching is full of such seeds, as the history of HisChurch is one great process of developing andharmonising and conveying to man the truth thuscast into the fallows of her soil. It is not newtruth, for He gave the germ, and no power in mancould have developed it without the germ, anymore than it could produce the oak without theacorn. It is the same truth, as He taught it, butwith that process passed upon it which He intendedwhen He gave it in such a form, and whenHe made a living Body, to be called by His name,to propagate His teaching, to collect His membersinto one, and to fill the earth with the knowledgewhich He brought. CDSuch a work, therefore, the root and authorisationof which we have been attempting to delineatein this chapter, stretches over the wholeeld which Truth and Grace occupy, and over athe relations of men which are summed up inthey are to believe and what they are to do. Theseramifications are all but endless. But to all theseextends that giving of the Holy Ghost in Hisfourfold character of the Spirit of Unity, Verity,Charity, and Sanctity, which is the result of theIncarnation, and which makes the Church. Whatwe have said here has a special relation to Truth,and to Christian morals as resting upon Christiandogma. But it is impossible to separate Truthfrom Grace, in their actual operation as powers:faith and charity in the Christian are linked to-