ude mean in his
description of certain who separated themselves, saying that they are
"sensual, having not the Spirit" (Jude 19). The soul, the middle
factor in the man, if we may say so, instead of being in alliance with
our higher nature, the spirit, takes sides with the lower, the flesh,
so that instead of being spiritual we become "earthly, sensual,
devilish" (James 3: 15). The whole man must be presented blameless at
the coming of the Lord before we can enter upon a state of blessed
perfection. Our spirit must not only rule our soul and our body, but
both these must be subject to the Holy Spirit of God. Dimly and
imperfectly do we thus image to ourselves the perfection of our
"spiritual body." Now the body bears the spirit, a slow chariot, whose
wheels are often disabled, and whose swiftest motion is but labored and
tardy. Then the spirit will bear the body, carrying it as on wings of
thought whithersoever it will. The Holy Ghost, by his divine inworking
will, has completed in us the Divine likeness, and perfected over us
the Divine dominion. The human body will now be in sovereign
subjection to the human spirit, and the human spirit to the divine
Spirit, and God will be all and in all.

[1] Milton probably gives the true genesis of this doctrine in these
words, which he puts into the mouth of Satan:

"The son of God I also am or was;
And if I was, I am; relation stands;
All men are sons of God."

[2] Andrew Jukes, "The New Man," p. 53.

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THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE SPIRIT

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"The Holy Ghost from the day of Pentecost has occupied an entirely new
position. The whole administration of the affairs of the Church of
Christ has since that day devolved upon him. . . That day was the
installation of the Holy Spirit as the Administrator of the Church in
all things, which office he is to exercise according to circumstances
at his discretion. It is as vested with such authority that he gives
his name to this dispensation. . . There is but one other great event
to which the Scripture directs us to look, and that is the second
coming of the Lord. Till then we live in the Pentecostal age and under
the rule of the Holy Ghost."--_James Elder Cumming, D. D._

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VII

THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE SPIRIT

The Holy Spirit, as coming down to fill the place of the ascended
Redeemer, has rightly been called "The Vicar of Jesus Christ." To him
the entire administr