Excerpt from The Work of the Holy Spirit I will bless the lord, who hath given me counsel; Yea, my reins instruct me in the night seasons. The same thing is described in the two parallel clauses, first from the side of God and then from that of man. It is the Lord's counsel that has moved the Psalmist to choose Him as his portion; but it has come to him by the voice of his own reins or heart. In like manner, an evil conscience was regarded as of God, and the evil spirit that troubled Saul after his sin and rejection by God is called an evil spirit from the lord (1 Sam. Xvi. An evil spirit of God, of the lord (i Sam. Xviii. Io, xix. And even absolutely a spirit of God (1 Sam. Xvi. These phrases can hardly mean a wicked spirit possessing the unfaithful king, like the demoniacs of whom we read in the New Testament they rather denote his own guilty conscience stirred up by divine influence to accuse and torment him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.