1. of the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
2. when the Holy Spirit has begun to fulfill His ministry.
3. what the Holy Spirit is.
4. the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
5. with what the Holy Spirit comforts, and why he is called a comforter.
Why the Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of Truth.
Why the Holy Spirit is called a witness.
8. testimonies of the Holy Scriptures that the Holy Spirit is also God, and yet another person than the Father and the Son.
1. of the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
(Cordatus No. 1036 and No. 1159.)
The spirit is one and the same, but it has two offices, for the spirit of grace makes God pleased with us and us pleased with God. But it is the spirit of prayer that prays for us and the whole world that good may come and evil may depart. The spirit of grace teaches others, the spirit of prayer asks that the name of God be sanctified, that his kingdom come 2c.
Notice that it is one thing to have the Holy Spirit and another to have the revelation of the Spirit. Before Christ, many had the Holy Spirit, but they did not have the revelation of the Spirit.
(The following is contained in Cap. 13, § 35. The following paragraph in Cordatus No. 1310.)
The Spirit is always first in teaching, but not in hearing. He is preceded by the word and followed by the spirit.
2. when the Holy Spirit has begun to fulfill His ministry.
(This § is found in the house postilla in the sermon on the holy day of Pentecost. Pentecost. Walch, St. Louis Edition, vol. XIII, Col. 2057, § 21; Col. 2058, § 22; Col. 2059 f., § 26. 27; Col. 2051, § 9. 10; Col. 2052, 8 11; Col. 2053, § 14.)
3. what the Holy Spirit is.
The Holy Scriptures testify, and the Nicene Symbol confesses and teaches from the Holy Scriptures, that the Holy Spirit is the one who gives life, and who is worshipped and honored at the same time as the Father and the Son. Therefore, the Holy Spirit must also be true, eternal God with the Father and the Son in one being. For where
If he were not the true, eternal God, then the divine power and honor, that he makes alive and is worshipped and honored with the Father and the Son at the same time, could not be attributed to him either; as the holy fathers have vigorously claimed and preserved this from the Scriptures against the heretics.
4. the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is an eternal, almighty God, as we believe and confess in our Christian faith: to Him the Lord Christ gives special names, and calls Him 1) a Punisher, who punishes the world for sin 2c. 2) A Comforter. 3) A spirit of truth. 4) That he proceeds from the Father, and thus is true, eternal, almighty God with the Father and the Son. 5) That he testifies of Christ 2c.
5) With what does the Holy Spirit comfort? and why is He called a Comforter?
(This § is found in the sermon on Sunday Exaudi in the Hauspostille. Walch, St. Louis ed. Vol. XIII, Col. 622, § 2 and 3; Col. 623, § 4.
Why is he called a spirit of truth?
(In the house postilion on Sunday Exaudi. Walch.
St. Louis ed. vol. XIII, col. 623, § 4.)
7. why is he called a witness?
(In the house postilion on Sunday Exaudi. Walch. St. Louis edition, vol. XIII, col. 625, § 9; 625, § 10.)
8. testimonies from the holy scriptures that the Holy Spirit is also God, and yet a different
Person, because the Father and Son.
(In the house postilion on sund. Trinitatis. Walch.
St. Louis edition, vol. XIII, col. 673 f., §§ 22. .