Romans 8:16

16. Spirit itself In its own immediate person.

Beareth witness with Testifies concurrently with. So that there are two witnesses, the divine and the human, testifying to the one fact.

Children The Spirit testifies solely to this one fact, our being children of God. This special testimony cannot be quoted for other facts than our own sonship. If a tasteful lady desire to know whether her manners are becoming and graceful she observes herself and draws her conclusion, and that is the testimony of her own taste and consciousness. If, additionally, another person of critical taste assure her that they are so, then she has the testimony of another mind witnessing with her own that her deportment is right. So the Christian by self-inspection and introspection may infer that he has the grace of God; but, additionally, the Divine Spirit surely is able to speak with a voiceless assurance to his consciousness that he is God’s child. That is, God’s Spirit may testify with and to man’s spirit to man’s sonship.