The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 494

SANCTIFICATION

454

They were creaX^di personally

holy; there was nothing But they had not yet fulfilled the law. They did not possess holy works. They had not acquired a treasure of Personally, one can be holy without having a single grain holiness. in Paradise.

unholy about them.

of

accomplished or acquired holiness; and, on the other hand, one a perfectly fulfilled law without having the slightest

may have

function of personal holiness. holy, but

He had

Christ in the

manger was

not yet fulfilled the law, hence

quired holiness to present to us in our place. his justification the child of of his

God receives

(i)

punishment on the ground of Christ's

plete remission of his indebtedness on the faction.

law

;

And

this satisfaction is

But

perfectly

not an ac-

in the

hour of

the complete remission «/t?«^';«(?«/y (2)

the com-

ground of Christ's

satis-

but a perfect fulfilment of the

hence a perfect all good works Between questions 114 and 115 there is,

a complete presentation of

manifestation of holiness.

He had

;

therefore, not the slightest conflict. Sanctifira//(?«

and

holiness are

two

different things.

Holiness, in

the 60th question, has reference, not to personal dispositions and desires,

but

of all the holy works required by the law. on the contrary, refers not to any work of the law,

to the sum-total

Sanctification,

but exclusively to the work of creating holy

dispositions in the heart.

Is Christ your holiness as much as He is your and in the same sense? we answer: Yes, indeed, bless the Lord; He is my complete holiness before God, just as much as my perfect righteousness. The one is just as absolute and The performance of all the holy works recertain as the other. quired by the law of every man, according to the Covenant of Works, is a vicarious act of Christ in the fullest sense of the word. Wherefore we confess that the holy works which Christ has done for us are just as positively an imptcted holiness, as we stand right before God by an imputed righteousness. Nothing can be added to it. It is whole, perfect, and complete in every respect. And that which is done for us in our stead is not again required of us. This would be morally absurd. According to the Covenant of Works, neither the law nor the lawgiver has anything more to demand of us. It is a finished work. The penalty is suffered, and the holiness required by the law is presented. We are perfectly righteous before God and our own consciousness, inasmuch as we If

one asks.

righteousness

receive this unspeakable benefit with a believing heart.

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