XXI.
And again Paul says: “That mortality
might be swallowed up of life. Now He that hath wrought us for
the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of
the Spirit.”353
And
again he says: “Approving ourselves as the
ministers of
God, in much
patience, in
afflictions, in necessities,”
354
and so forth. Then he adds these
words: “By
kindness, by the Holy
Ghost, by
love unfeigned,
by the word of
truth, by the
power of
God.”
355
Behold here again the
saint has
defined the holy
Trinity, naming
God, and the Word, and the Holy
Ghost. And again he says: “Know ye not that ye are
the
temple of
God, and that the Spirit of
God dwelleth in you? If
any man
defile the
temple of
God, him shall
God
destroy.”
356
And
again: “But ye are
washed, but ye are justified in the name
of our
Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our
God.”
357
And again: “What! know
ye not that your bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in
you, which ye have of God?”
358
“And I think also that I
have the Spirit of God.”
359
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