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Chapter
XVII.—Whether Adam Had the Spirit.
“But I shall begin the statement now.
God having made all things, if any one will not allow to a man,
fashioned by His hands, to have possessed His great and Holy Spirit of
foreknowledge, how does not he greatly err who attributes it to another
born of a spurious stock!959
| 959 [Here we find another
view, suggesting the speculative opinions for which the author desires
the indorsement of Peter.—R.] | And I do not
think that he will obtain pardon, though he be misled by spurious
scripture to think dreadful things against the Father of all. For
he who insults the image and the things belonging to the eternal King,
has the sin reckoned as committed against Him in whose likeness the
image was made. But then, says he, the Divine Spirit left him
when he sinned. In that case the Spirit sinned along with
him; and how can he escape peril who says this? But perhaps he
received the Spirit after he sinned. Then it is given to the
unrighteous; and where is justice? But it was afforded to the
just and the unjust. This were most unrighteous of all.
Thus every falsehood, though it be aided by ten thousand reasonings,
must receive its refutation, though after a long
time.
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