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Taking a three-fold approach to The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, Smeaton first examines scriptural testimony on the Holy Spirit. Next, he gives details on six aspects of the Holy Spirit: the perceived “personality” of the Holy Spirit; the Spirit’s influence by revelation and inspiration; how the Holy Spirit brings about an individual’s regeneration; the Spirit of holiness; and the Holy Spirit in...

of opinion rejected as spurious, and replete with views which Augustin did not hold. The arguments from analogy which go to prove that Adam had the Spirit are conclusive. The doctrine that man was originally, though mutably, replenished with the Spirit, may be termed the deep fundamental thought of the Scripture-doctrine of man. If the first and second Adam are so related that the first man was the analogue or figure of the second, as all admit on the authority of Scripture (τύπος τοῦ μέλλοντος,
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