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The Holy Spirit (the supplier [epichoregia] by whom believers should be God-taught [theodidaktoi], Jer. 31:34; Jn. 6:45*; 1 Jn. 2:27) does not render the Scripture less necessary. He is not given to us in order to introduce new revelations, but to impress the written word on our hearts; so that here the word must never be separated from the Spirit (Is. 59:21). The former works objectively, the latter efficiently; the former strikes the ears from without, the latter opens the heart within. The Spirit is the teacher; Scripture is the doctrine which he teaches us.

Francis Turretin Institutes of Elenctic Theology

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