What the evangelists actually say
It is objected, thirdly, One evangelist says, Your heavenly Father will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him. The other evangelist calls the same thing good gifts, and from this claims an abundant demonstration that the Spirit's way of bearing witness is by giving good gifts. But neither saying speaks of bearing witness at all. Until this demonstration is better demonstrated, I let it stand as it is.
1771 text
5. It is objected, thirdly, “One evangelist says, your heavenly Father will give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him. The other evangelist calls the same thing good gifts; abundantly demonstrating, that the Spirit’s way of bearing witness, is by giving good gifts.” Nay, here is nothing at all about bearing witness, either in one text, or the other. Therefore ’till this demonstration is better demonstrated, I let it stand as it is.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 11 in the 1771 Works. Romans 8:16. The second discourse on the witness of the Spirit.
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