The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 292

Second Cbapter.

THE SINNER TO BE WROUGHT UPON. XL Sin Not Material. •*

Sin

is

iii.

What

lawlessness."

—

i

John

4 (R. v.).

did sin blunt, corrupt, and destroy in God's image-bearer

Adam? Altho we can touch this question but lightly, yet it may not be It is evident that, for the right understanding of the Spirit's work regenerating and restoring the sinner, the knowledge

slighted.

of his condition

The

rend.

is

absolutely necessary.

The mend must

wall must be rebuilt where the breach

is

made.

fit

the

The

healing balm must suit the nature of the wound. is,

so

must

also be the cure.

must be the

resurrection.

As the disease Or stronger still, as is the death so The fall and the rising again are inter-

dependent. Generalities are useless in this respect.

Ministers

who seek

to

uncover and expose the man of sin by simply saying that men are wholly lost, dead in trespasses and sin, lack the cutting force which alone can lay open the putrefying sores of the heart. These serious matters have been treated too lightly. Hence by ignoring general and shallow statements we simply return to the tried and proven

ways

of the fathers.

We

begin with pointing to one of the principal errors of the viz., that of a resuscitated Manicheism. would be very interesting to present in a condensed form this

present time, It

sparkling and fascinating heresy to the Church of to-day.

immediate

effect

ily likeness of

The

would be the discovery of the origin or the fam-

much

pernicious teaching that

is

brought into the

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