Q. 1.-" Had the Lord Jesus a soul ? and will the saved have souls in resurrection ?"

Ans.-Man is body, soul, and spirit; and the Lord was in every particular true man. "Thou wilt not leave My soul in hades, as "applied to Him by the apostle (Acts 2:27, 31), shows that He had a soul, and that He took it with Him beyond death. So does the human soul survive death (Matt. 10:28), certainly not to pass away afterward. Little as is made known to us of the resurrection-state, there need be no doubt whatever as to the eternal existence of the soul, as of the spirit.

Q. 2.-"To what time do the words, ' He was made a quickening spirit' apply ? "

Ans.-"The last Adam was made" this. In resurrection, after His work accomplished, He became last Adam, and as such breathes upon His disciples (Jno. 20:22) as God breathed upon the first Adam. There is connection, and as plain contrast also. As last Adam, He is the new-creation Head and Lord, as the first was of the old.

Q- 3.-"Was Adam perfect as he came fresh from God's hand?" Ans.-Surely, perfect in the sphere for which God made him,-"upright," innocent:holiness could not be when as yet there was not the knowledge of evil.

Q.4.-" Was it possible for the Lord Jesus to have departed from the path of obedience had He so chosen ? "

Ans.-It was not possible for Him to have chosen to do so. There is often a great mistake in our conceptions of freedom. God cannot lie, cannot repent :is He not free ? And so with the Lord Jesus:absolutely perfect and perfectly free.

Q. 5.-" It is said that Pentecost was the only baptism of the Spirit, docs not Acts 10:44, 45; 11:15, 16, show otherwise?-the expressions, 'fell on,' 'poured out,' 'baptized with,' 'as on us,' being used?"

Ans.-The brother who, I think, first advocated the view of baptism of the Spirit having taken place once for all at Pentecost says,-

"As to a person subsequent to Pentecost being baptized with the Holy Ghost, I should say he was introduced into an already baptized body but by receiving the Holy Ghost, by which he is united to the Head-Christ. I am not anxious as to the word ' baptism,' but it is not generally employed as to the individual reception. Acts 11:17 and 1 Cor. 12:are the nearest to applying it to an individual or individuals, but it is not actually used. But the receiving of the Holy Ghost is equivalent, they having what was originally treated as baptism of the Holy Ghost, and are looked at, as they are, as partakers of the same thing."

It seems to me to be in this way a distinction of very little moment, even if real:of which I have never been convinced. For 1 Cor. 12:13 positively says, "For by one Spirit have we all been baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks;" and there were no Greeks baptized on the day of Pentecost. Acts 11:17 certainly looks in the same direction.

Q. 6.-"Is the distinction 'came upon' and 'dwell in' sufficient to mark the contrast between Old-Testament and New-Testament times ? Is it not rather the fact of (1) the Spirit's abiding, instead of transient visits:and (2) forming the one body, instead of using individuals for special occasions ? In, the case of the prophets (1 Pet. 1:11), and of John the Baptist (Luke 1:15), 'in them' and 'filled with' are used, as they would be now."

Ans.-In the case of John the Baptist, we find, not even transient visits, but one filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb. We read this of no other, and yet one such case is sufficient to show that the first distinction is not exact. Of even John, however, it could not be said, as to the Corinthians, "Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost ? " Plainly, the Spirit had not yet come; and though controlled fully by Him, he was yet not indwelt. Then again, the Spirit of Christ was "in" the prophets, but only as prophets,-that is, in their prophecies. I still think, therefore, that the indwelling of the Spirit is truly distinctive of the present time.

Q. 7.-" What is the force of ' The supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ' (Phil. 1:19.) ?"

Ans.-The ministry of grace by that Spirit by whom Christ had been anointed for His work on earth.