Why the holy goste is called holy.
The Master's Question
The Master asks why the Holy Spirit is called holy.
Master. Why is he called holy?
The Scholar's Answer
The Scholar explains that the Spirit is called holy not only for his own holiness but because he makes the chosen of God holy, and this is why Scripture calls him the Spirit of sanctification.
Not only for his own holiness, but because through him the chosen of God, and members of Christ, are made holy. And therefore the Scriptures have called him the Spirit of sanctification, or of making holy.✦
Read the original English
Mast. Whi is he called holy?
Scholer Not onelye for hys owne holynesse: but for that by hym are made holye the chosen of God, and members of Christe. And thearfore haue the scriptures termed him the spirit of sanctification or makyng holy.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Rom.1.4;2Thess.2.13;1Pet.1.2 — and was declared to be the Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. 2Thess.2.13 — But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and faith in the truth. 1Pet.1.2 — according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: grace to you and peace be multiplied.
John Ponet's Short Catechisme (1553) companion
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