The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 488

V.

Own

Holy Raiment of One's "

I

Weaving.

dwell in the high and holy places."

— Isa.

Ivii.

15.

Holiness inheres in man's being. There is external holiness, e.g., that of the Levitical order, effected by washing or sprinkling with sacrificial blood or official holiness, denoting separation for divine service, in which sense the prophets and apostles are called holy, and church-members are But these have nothing to do with the called holy and beloved. sanctification now under discussion. Sanctification as a gift of grace refers to a man's personal holiness. As the divine holiness is God's exaltation above, and angry recoil from all impurity and defilement, so is human holiness man's essential disposition by which spontaneously he loves purity and hates the unclean. Victory over temptation after a long and painful conflict, in which our feet had wellnigh slipped, is not holiness. Holiness signifies a disposition, an inherent quality, or, by another manner of speaking, a tint or shade adopted by the soul, so that the heart's evil manifestations and Satan's wicked whisperings ;

As

us with positive horror.

fill

fully affected

the musically trained ear

by a dissonance as

it

is

pain-

vibrates along the shuddering

auditory nerve, while the unmusical ear never perceives the offense is the difference between the sanctiWhatever the world's moral dissonances

against the purity of tone, so fied

may

and the unsanctified. they

be,

fail to affect

the ungodly,

who even

but they distress the saint whose soul delights

praise the music;

in the

harmony

of

holy concord.

This holy or unholy disposition includes our entire inward being;

and

it

inheres in mind, conscience, understanding, will, feelings,

inclinations.

Evil and impure speech affords pleasure or pain

to all these.

Yet

this is not the final token of

thing more at

much

is

that

required. is evil,

Do

not

and delight

being holy or unholy.

Some-

many of the imregenerate shudder in much that is good.^ Sympathy

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