...the Spirit has His own congregation in the world, which is the mother that conceives and bears every Christian through God's Word. Through the Word He reveals and preaches, He illumines and enkindles hearts, so that they understand, accept, cling to, and preserve in the Word. Where the Spirit does not cause the Word to be preached and roused in the heart so that is it understood, it is lost.
~BOC, LC, II, 42-43
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