Wesley Corpus

Bened.) where his words are these :-- “‘When the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth, and he will teach you all things.’ The sum of all good things consists in this, that a man be found worthy to receive the grace of the Holy Ghost. Otherwise, nothing will be accounted perfectin him who hath not the Holy Spirit.” Do these words confirm that “sense of those passages which your Lordship had assigned ?” Rather do they not utterly overturn it, and prove (as above) that although this promise of our Lord primarily belongs to the Apostles, yet, in the secondary sense, it belongs (according to Origen’s judgment) to all Christians in all ages? 17. The fourth text mentioned as belonging to the first Christians only, is Romans viii. 15, 16; and it is said, page 26, “This interpretation is confirmed by the authority of the most eminent fathers.” The reader is particularly referred to Origen and Jerome in locum. But here seems to be a mistake of the name. Jerome in locum should mean, Jerome upon the place, upon Romans viii. 15, 16. But I cannot perceive that there is one word upon that place, in all St. Jerome's Works. Nor indeed has Origen commented upon it any more than Jerome. But he occasionally mentions it in these words:-- “He is a babe who is fed with milk; but if he seeks the things that are above, without doubt he will be of the number of those who “receive not the spirit of bondage again unto fear, but the Spirit of adoption, through whom they cry, ‘Abba, Father.’” (Vol. i., p. 79.) Again: “The fulness of time is come; when they who are willing receive the adoption, as Paul teaches in these words, ‘Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father!’ And it is written in the Gospel according to St. John, ‘To as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to then that believe in his name.’” (Vol. i., pp.