The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 491

HOLY RAIMENT OF ONE'S OWN WEAVING of holiness

is

451

out of the question; and to every converted person

who dies suddenly; and to the man who. hardened all his life, in his dying hour repents before God, and departs one of the redeemed

of the Lord.

of the ordinary

The supporters

They

representation impossible. effect of the saint's

own

Arminian doctrine consider believe that sanctification

exertion, exercise,

and

conflict.

this

is

an

It is like

a beautiful garment of fine linen, very desirable, but it must be of one's own weaving. This labor is begun immediately after the The loom is set up, and he begins to weave. saint's conversion.

He continues his spiritual labor with but few interruptions. The piece of linen gradually increases under his hand, and assumes form and shape. If not cut down in early life, he expects to finish even before the hour of his departure. The pulpit must oppose this theory, which comes, not from Arminius's books, but from man's wicked heart. For it is not only

it

very comfortless, but also wicked.

our precious little ones who died in the cradle are lost, for they could not put one stitch in this raiment of their glory; comfortless: for if the saint should happen to be behindhand with his weaving, or be taken away in It is comfortless

for, if true,

:

then

all

he would surely converdeath-bed less comfortless for him whose

the midst of his days before he could half finish

be

Nor

lost.

sion

is

is it

utterly useless, for

garment

it

came

it,

too late for the

weaving of

this

of sanctification.

wicked: for then Christ is no sufficient Savior. justification and open the gates of Paradise, but the weaving of our own wedding-garments He lays upon us, without insuring us sufficeint time to finish them. Yea, wicked indeed is it; for this makes the weaving of the fine linen our work, sanctification man's achievement, and God is no longer the only Author

And it is also He may effect our

of our salvation.

again on

Then

it

no grace, and man's own work

is

is

its feet.

In thus subverting the very foundation of holy things, thoughtless Ethical theologians ought to consider the destruction they

bring upon Christ's Church.

Our

fathers never believed this doc-

is no Gospel in it," they said. and always opposed it. Grace; laying upon God's of Covenant It is the concision of the of Works. Covenant the saints the fear and distress of

trine,

"

There

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