THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE PRAYER BOOK....................................... 3
THE TRINITY SEASON............................................................................. 3
FOREWORD........................................................................................... 7
PREFACE................................................................................................ 9
CONTENTS.......................................................................................... 13
FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION......................................... 22
Chapter 1: The Holy Spirit....................................................................... 23
Doctrine of His Divine Personality Neglected -- Its
Importance.......... 23
Witness of the Old Testament.............................................................. 24
Witness of the Gospels........................................................................ 26
The Witness of Acts............................................................................ 31
The Witness of the Epistles.................................................................. 34
The Witness of the Apocalypse............................................................ 37
The Witness of the Early Church, including Testimony of the Prayer Book 39
Conclusion: Results of Deficient Attention: Hopeful Signs: Life for Man
Spiritual 44
Chapter 2: The Prayer Book.................................................................... 49
Early History: The Sacramentaries: Latin Church Then Comparatively Pure 49
Reformation Period............................................................................. 58
The Christian Year: Coxe.................................................................... 63
Creation: The Sabbath......................................................................... 63
Three Jewish Feasts............................................................................ 65
God the Life of Man: Bread, Wine, Slain Lambs, Songs of Pilgrims...... 65
Relation of these to Christ’s Life, Teaching, and Death......................... 66
Chapter 3: The Spirit and the Prayer Book............................................... 73
Summary of Preceding Chapters.......................................................... 73
What Now is the Spirit’s Relationship to the Book?............................. 75
Precedent and Analogy: Old Testament Scripture Included Lyric and Prayers 76
A Spirit of Order, Universality, Truth Life, Growth............................... 77
The Young Christ and the Young Church............................................. 82
Spirit Has Come to Stay, to Guide, to Pray in Us and Teach, not Least by
Means of Liturgies 83
Spirit of Wisdom and Beauty............................................................... 85
What Our Conclusion Should Be......................................................... 86
Chapter 4: The Trinity Season.................................................................. 90
Introduction......................................................................................... 90
History of the Name............................................................................ 90
Whitsunday more than a Truth, an Event.............................................. 92
Wide Aspects of Spirit’s Work as Christ’s Vice-gerent, in the Sunday
Epistles After Trinity 94
Donne and Ewer on Whitsunday.......................................................... 97
“Signs” of Spirit’s Epiphany................................................................. 98
Trinity Sunday: First, Second, Third and Fourth Sundays After Trinity. 100
Groups of Epistles............................................................................. 104
Persecution, Peace of the Church....................................................... 105
Lessons from the Acts....................................................................... 108
Conclusion........................................................................................ 111
THE TRINITY SEASON – (CONTINUED)........................................... 117
No man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost: Applied to
Christmas and Epiphany Truths 118
Applied to God’s Fatherhood, Christ’s Sonship and the Trinity........... 121
To the Atonement, Sense of Sin, Self-Knowledge, Immediate State.... 123
To the Family; The Spirit the Fount of Unity; Communion of Saints Here 127
Themes Suggested as Appropriate to the Long Witsuntide.................. 129