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140 Q. 22. — Does this promise refer to all repentant sinners, or is there a distinction?

A. — For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek; for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans x, 12, 13.

Q. 23. — Did God send His Son into the world to proclaim to us sinners the redeeming Gospel?

A. — The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. St. Luke xviii, 19; John iii, 17, 18; I John iv, 9; Gal. iv, 4, 5.

Q. 24. — Now as God, for love of us poor sinners did not spare His own Son, but sacrificed Him for us all, so that all believing in Him should not perish, but have eternal life; the next question is, seeing that true faith is the action of the Holy Ghost upon us, whereupon shalt this faith in Jesus Christ be founded, if we would have the Holy Ghost as our leader, and keep it? Have we certain information regarding this also in Holy Script, or may we in this regard believe according to our own will, judgment and liking whatever we wish? A. — He that believeth on Me as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake He of the Spirit, which they that believed on Him should receive, for the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.) John vii, 38, 39. See also II Peter i, 16 and 21.

Q. 25. — But if we find that we have given more attention to wise tales than to Holy Writ, thereby preventing the Holy Ghost from implanting the true faith in Jesus Christ; and we are then sorry from our heart and would like to become possessed of it again, how can we be helped?

A. — Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that