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1:22,23; 2:22; I Cor. 3:16; 12:4 ff. (4) Teaching and guiding the
Church. The Holy Spirit testifies to Christ and leads the Church in all
the truth. By doing this He manifests the glory of God and of Christ,
increases the knowledge of the Saviour, keeps the Church from error,
and prepares her for her eternal destiny, John 14:26; 15:26; 16:13,14;
Acts 5:32; Heb. 10:15; I John 2:27.

QUESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY. Does pagan literature contain any

analogies of the doctrine of the Trinity? Does the development of the
doctrine of the Trinity start from the ontological or from the
economical Trinity? Can the economical Trinity be understood apart from
the ontological? Why is the doctrine of the Trinity discussed by some
as introductory to the doctrine of redemption? What is the Hegelian
conception of the Trinity? How did Swedenborg conceive of it? Where do
we find Sabellianism in modern theology? Why is it objectionable to
hold that the Trinity is purely economical? What objections are there
to the modern Humanitarian conception of the Trinity? Why does Barth
treat of the Trinity in the Prolegomena to theology? What is the
practical significance of the doctrine of the Trinity?

LITERATURE: Bavinck, Geref Dogm. II, pp. 260-347; Kuyper, Dict. Dogm.,
De Deo II, pp. 3-255; Vos. Geref. Dogm. I, pp. 36-81; Mastricht,
Godgeleerdheit I, pp. 576-662; Turretin, Opera, Locus Tertius Hodge,
Syst. Theol. I, pp. 442-534; Dabney, Syst. and Polem. Theol. pp.
174-211; Curtiss, The Chr. Faith, pp. 483-510; Harris, God, Creator and
Lord of All, I, pp. 194-407; Illingworth, The Doctrine of the Trinity;
Adeney, The Christian Conception of God, pp. 215-246; Steenstra, The
Being of God as Unity and Trinity, pp. 159-269; Clarke, The Chr. Doct.
of God, pp. 227-248; Bartlett, The Triune God; Liddon, The Divinity of
Our Lord; Mackintosh, The Doctrine of the Person of Jesus Christ;
Warfield, The Lord of Glory; ibid, The Spirit of God in the Old
Testament and The Biblical Doctrine of the Trinity (both in Biblical
Doctrines), pp. 101 ff.; ibid., Calvin's Doctrine of the Trinity (in
Calvin and Calvinism); Kuyper, Het Werk van den Heiligen Geest, cf.
Index; Owen, A Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit, cf. Index;
Smeaton, The Doct. of the Holy Spirit; Pohle-Preuss, The Divine
Trinity.
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[36] The Doctrine of the Word of God, p. 344

[37] Dogm. theol., pp. 393 f., 251 ff., 178ff.

[38] The Triune God, Part Two.

[39] pp. 19ff.

[40] Dogm. Theol., I, p. 271.

[41] Inst. I, XIII, 6

[42] This is very ably summed up in such works as Liddon's The Divinity
of Our Lord, Warfield's The Lord of Glory, and Wm. C. Robinson's Our
Lord.
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THE WORKS OF GOD

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I. The Divine Decrees in General

THE DOCTRINE OF THE DECREES IN THEOLOGY

Reformed theology stresses the sovereignty of God in virtue of which He

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