The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 300

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THE SINNER TO BE WROUGHT UPON

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hin ausgetreten denken, so bleibt diese Creatur intact, "* directly contradicts this pure confession of the

No, the creature did not remain

Reformed churches.

intact,

but sin so seriously in-

jured him that he became corrupt even unto death.

acknowledge that

we

cision

no real being in

sin has

itself,

And

tho

we

yet with equal de-

by no most assur-

confess, with our church, that its workings are

means merely negative, nor exclusively

privative, but

edly very positive. Scripture and our best theologians (Rivet, Wallaeus, and Polyander by name, in their Synopsis) teach this so positively that it is almost unimaginable how Dr. Bohl could reach any other conclusion.

Wherefore we are inclined

to believe that

on this point he

agrees with the confession of the orthodox churches, but that he represents this matter in such a strange

manner

for the sake of

something else and for an entirely different reason. If we may be frank, we would represent Dr. Bohl's course of reasoning as follows " My teacher, Dr. Kohlbrugge, used to oppose strenuously the men that proudly say to the unconverted: ;

Touch me

not, for

am

I

He used to emphasize moment out of much as the unconverted.

holier than thou.

the fact that the child of God, considered for a Christ, lies in the midst of death, just as

Hence regeneration does not change man he

after regeneration

is

Before and

in the least.

exactly the same, with this difference only,

man believes and by \).\s faith walks in reflected And if this be so, then regarding the fall the rethat is, before and after the fall man as such |re-

that the converted

righteousness.

verse is true

;

mained the same the only change was that in the fall he left the righteousness in which he stood before." Of course we may be mistaken, but we dare surmise that in this way Dr. Bohl was tempted to this strange representation, and even to declare, as Rome teaches, that desire in itself is no sin something which the Reformed Church on the ground of the Tenth Commandment has always opposed. In fact, the question regarding the fall and the restoration is the ;

;

same.

If

can the

fall

ner

is

the restoration does not affect our being, then neither

have affected

mean no more than •"Removed by intact.

it.

If

redemption means only that a

sin-

set in the light of Christ's righteousness, then the fall can

that

sin

man

from

stepped out of that

this state

light.

[of righteousness],

The two

man remains

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