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for an angel is not omni-present. If this Spirit that purifies
and fills a baptized Christian is God Himself, for such is their
belief in the third person of the Trinity, then all the baptized
Christians ought to claim themselves divine or deified!
Then there is a Protestant conception of the Holy Spirit,
which (or who (1)) fills the hearts of those who, at the
highest excitement and ecstasy during an inflammatory ser-
mon of an ignorant or learned haranguer, believe themselves
to become "new-born"; yet many among them slide back
and become what they were before, rogues and swindlers!
Footnote
(1) The Holy Spirit, in all the Christian literature of diverse
languages, has not a fixed gender. He, she, it, are all commonly
used as the personal pronouns for the Holy Ghost.
and fills a baptized Christian is God Himself, for such is their
belief in the third person of the Trinity, then all the baptized
Christians ought to claim themselves divine or deified!
Then there is a Protestant conception of the Holy Spirit,
which (or who (1)) fills the hearts of those who, at the
highest excitement and ecstasy during an inflammatory ser-
mon of an ignorant or learned haranguer, believe themselves
to become "new-born"; yet many among them slide back
and become what they were before, rogues and swindlers!
Footnote
(1) The Holy Spirit, in all the Christian literature of diverse
languages, has not a fixed gender. He, she, it, are all commonly
used as the personal pronouns for the Holy Ghost.