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Word and Spirit in Conversion

"We must never divorce what God has married, namely his Word and his Spirit. The Word of God is the Spirit's sword. The Spirit without the Word is weaponless; the Word without the Spirit is powerless." (The Message of Thessalonians pg. 34)

Preach the necessity for the Holy Ghost’s divine operations. ... ‘Men must be told that they are dead, and that only the Holy Spirit can quicken them; that the Spirit works according to his own good pleasure, and that no man can claim his visitations or deserve his aid. This is thought to be very discouraging teaching, and so it is, but men need to be discouraged when they are seeking salvation in a wrong manner. To put them out of conceit of their own abilities is a great help toward bringing them to look out of self to another, even the Lord Jesus. The doctrine of election and other great truths which declare salvation to be all of grace, and to be, not the right of the creature, but the gift of the Sovereign Lord, are all calculated to hide pride from man, and so prepare him to receive the mercy of God.’
- C.H. Spurgeon (from Lectures to My Students)

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Title	Notes
Receiving Christ	Michael Horton
The External and Internal Call	Wilhelmus a Brakel
But Spiritual Discernment is Wholly Lost Until we are Regenerated	John Calvin
Faith and Regeneration	Charles Spurgeon
The Work of the Holy Spirit in our Salvation - Part 2	Thomas Goodwin
The Work of the Holy Spirit in our Salvation - Part 1	Thomas Goodwin
The Necessity of the Use of Means in the Spirit's Work of Monergistic Regeneration	JW Hendryx
The Spirit and the Word: What God Has Joined Together Let No Man Divide (.pdf)	Rick Ritchie, Reformation & Revival 3:2 (Spring 1994): 49-59.
Spirit and Word: Lessons from Puritanism (.pdf)	Andrew Davies, Reformation & Revival 5:3 (Summer 1996): 93-109.
Perceiving the Power of Preaching	R.C. Sproul
Ransomed, Raised, and Called	John Piper - How Does God Regenerate Us. Excerpts from "Finally Alive"
Born Again Through the Living and Abiding Word	John Piper
The Holy Spirit’s Work in Bringing Sinners to Faith in Christ	John Owen - Reversing the Curse
The Necessity of Divine Influence to Make the Ministry Efficient	John Angell James, 1847
The Preaching of the Gospel and the Work of the Holy Spirit	John Hendryx
Illumination: The Holy Spirit Gives Spiritual Understanding	J.I. Packer
Inward Witness: Scripture is Authenticated by the Holy Spirit	J.I. Packer
The Necessity of Word & Spirit in Conversion	John Calvin
The Spirit and the Scriptures	John M. Frame - originally in Donald A. Carson and John D. Woodbridge, ed., Hermeneutics, Authority, and Canon (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1986), 213-235
The Twofold Use of the Law & Gospel: Letter & Spirit	Martin Luther (1483-1546)
The Work of the Holy Spirit in Salvation - Part 2	Thomas Goodwin
Pentecost: Before and After Historia Salutis and Ordo Salutis	Richard B. Gaffin, Jr.
The Holy Spirit Must Quicken	A.W. Pink
The Nature, Causes and Means of Regeneration	John Owen
The Necessity of Word & Spirit in Conversion	John Calvin
The Authority & Power of the Word upon the Heart	J.C. Philpot
The Word of Men and the Word of God	J.C. Philpot
Biblical Regeneration and Affectional Theology	J.W. Hendryx
If Divine Election is True then What Need is There to Preach the Gospel?	J.W. Hendryx
On the Two Great Instruments in the Conversion of Sinners	Thomas Reade
The Holy Spirit In the Ministry of the Word	Bob Burridge