The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 519

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THE

PIETIST

AND THE PERFECTIONIST

But during the days of our earthly

man

life this is

not

so.

479

The new

from him, but hid in Christ. He is still wedded to his old man. But in regeneration and conversion God dissolves this unholy marriage, and He unites his ego to the new man. Yet, despite all this, he is not Before God and the law, from the viewyet rid of the old man. be so considered, but not actually and of eternity, he may point of an unregenerate, but elect person exists apart

really.

And

this is the cause of the conflict within

evil ties are not dissolved at once,

at once.

By

and

all

and without.

the mystic union with Christ the child of

possesses the entire

new man, even

All

holy ties are not united

God

actually

tho he should die to-morrow;

Being weaaed to the new it. by a painful process, yet to die to the old

but he has not yet the enjoyment of

man

before God, he

is,

man, and by divine grace the new man is to be raised in him. And this is his sanctification the dying of the old and the rising of the new, by which God increases and we decrease. Blessed manifesta:

tion of faith

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