If  they  were  truly  enlightened,  it  was  because  the  Spirit
guided  them  into  the  truth.  If  they  were  savingly  changed,
it  was  by  the  washing  of  regeneration,  and  the  renewing
of  the  Holy  Ghost.  If  they  were  set  free  from  the
bondage  of  sin  and  Satan,  and  the  world,  it  was  be-
cause where  the  Spirit  of  the  Lord  is,  there  is  liberty.  If
they  became  obedient  unto  God,  it  was  because  He  put
His  Spirit  in  them,  and  so  caused  them  to  walk  in  His
statutes,  and  to  keep  His  judgments  and  do  them.  They
were  filled  with  consolation  by  walking  in  the  comfort  of
the  Holy  Ghost.  They  were  filled  with  peace  and  joy  in
believing,  and  made  to  abound  in  hope,  by  the  power  of
the  Holy  Ghost.  The  gospel  had  come  to  them  not  in
word  only,  but  in  power,  by  coming  to  them  in  the  Holy
Ghost.      And  it  was  by  being  made  to  live  and  walk  in  tlie


344  Jl^07'/c  of  the  Spirit  of  Christ.
Spirit  that  they  brought  forth  these  fruits  of  the  Spirit,
love,  joy,  peace,  long-suffering,  gentleness,  goodness,  faith,
meekness,  temperance.  By  this  work  of  the  Spirit  in  their
heart  and  life,  the  Lord  made  it  manifest  that  He  had
effectually  called  these  converts  to  Himself,  and  that  it  was
He  Himself  who  in  a  similar  way  continued  to  add  to  the
church  daily  such  as  should  be  saved.
III.  The  outpouring  of  the  Spirit  on  the  day  of  Pente-
cost naturally  leads  us  to  notice  the  history  of  the  work  of
the  Spirit  as  a  work  of  saving  grace  during  the  past  ages  of
the  patriarchal  and  Jewish  dispensations  on  the  one  hand ;
and  His  work  throughout  the  ages  of  the  gospel  dispensation.
