The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 540

SANCTIFICATION

500 to himself

if left

however

he produces nothing; not a single good work,

small.

The most

skilful diamond-cutter, tho supplied with the best can not furnish the smallest diamond rose except the proprietor of the establishment gives him the diamond, the steamtools,

power in his tools, and even the gas-light upon his hands. In like manner it is impossible for the most excellent among God's children, tho their souls be well equipped, to furnish a single good work, except the Proprietor of the holy-art establishment gives

them the material, the power, and the light. Hence the content and entire form of every good work is not of man, but of the Holy Ghost, so that when it is finished we owe thanks to God, and not He to us. In every man who performs a good work He works both to will and to do. But when the Holy Spirit has furnished everything necessary, then one thing is still lacking, viz., that the saint do it and make the work his own. And this is the wonderful act of faith. There is not one good work which God has not prepared before, that we should walk in it and this is why it is not wrought until we walk in it. The Lord says to Ezekiel, " I will cause you to walk in my statutes," but the Lord does not cause us to walk therein un;

we actually walk in them. We shall neither be carried nor be wheeled into them. This would have no value before the divine Majesty; that would be no art. Even we can wheel the cripple in his carriage but the art of making him to walk, yea, even to leap as a hart, is not human, but worthy of God alone. And we may not allow this to be taken from Him by a sickly mysticism, and thus til

;

rob

God

To tibly

of this glory.

say, as

into

many

do, that the

good paths, and that

to despise holy things.

and we may not candlestick

:

No one

rest until the

that the

power

causes the cripple to walk,

And

Lord

God

to run,

this is the act of faith,

is

and

i.e.,

of casting itself into the deep,

good works,

is

should touch the honor of our God;

pure doctrine

of

everlasting arms of mercy, tho

carries His children impercep-

this constitutes their

to leap as

again from the

He

a hart.

that wonderful act of the soul

knowing

it is

bums

manifest in the fact that

that

it

shall fall into the

utterly unable to see.

this respect is to agree with the divine will

;

Faith in

to accept the

good

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