Reprobate
Question for Schuyler: Does the Holy Spirit work in the reprobate, that is, internally in their hearts and souls and minds, to use them for his purposes, and especially to restrain sin? See John 14:17. See also 1 Samuel 10:6 , 10, which seems to say that the Holy Spirit came upon wicked Saul, in connection with 1 Samuel 16:14, according to which the Spirit departed from him, implying that he once possessed it. If the Spirit does not work internally in the reprobate, how is God’s hardening of...