The fruit of the Spirit (James Morgan)

[Reformed Covenanter]

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” Galatians 5:22, 23.

These nine graces are enumerated by the apostle as together constituting the fruit of the Spirit. And it deserves to be remarked, that the term employed is fruit, and not fruits—importing that all these graces proceed from one grand principle introduced into the mind by the Holy Spirit, that they are the united outgoings of the renewed heart, the varied expressions of evangelical godliness.

James Morgan, ‘The Fruit of the Spirit – Love’, Christian Miscellany, 1, no. 4 (22 January 1842), p. 25.

 

[Reformed Covenanter]

Ardent love to Christ is thus the necessary result of the Spirit's operation. The believer loves him for what he is, and for what he has done; and just as bis convictions of sin are deep, and his views of righteousness are clear, and his apprehensions of judgment are solemn, he loves him the more.

James Morgan, ‘The Fruit of the Spirit – Love’, Christian Miscellany, 1, no. 4 (22 January 1842), pp 25-26.