The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 465

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TESTIMONIES tions are inclined, taken up, directed,

my resolution

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425 upon

this object,

so great, so determined, so immovable, that

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required

and property, of father and mother, sister, brother, wife eye or right hand yea, tho I were condemned to die at the stake, I would lightly esteem all this, and would suffer it with joy, to have this wonderfully fit Savior to be my Savior and my Jesus. Oh my friends, examine your hearts, for, from the very nature of the case, anything less than this will not suffice. If you possess this you will joyfully part with all your sins, you will bid an eternal and joyful adieu to your most cherished lusts and bosom passions it will make you count all your righteousnesses, which you esteemed a gain, nothing but loss, rejecting them as unprofitable refuse, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ it will make you it will make you take joyfully the spoiling of your goods count it an honor, with the apostle, to be scourged for Christ's sake; it will make you say Tho I have not yet found Him, and am only seeking after Him, whom my soul loveth, and altho I dare not say. My Beloved is mine and I am His, yet if I were to labor for Him twice seven years, and spend them in groaning and weeping, in tears and supplications, I would count them but as so many days, if only at last I might find Him to be my own. God Himself must fix your mind upon these things these results are the infallible signs of the inward root of the matter. " Fourth, this knowledge of faith is a divine light of the Holy Spirit by which I know Christ in the Gospel in all His sufficient fulness. By this I see not only that He is well disposed toward poor sinners such as myself for a man might be favorably disposed toward another to assist him in his misery, but he might lack the power and the means to do so, and the best that he could do might be to pity the wretch and say, I pity your misery, but I can not help you but this divine light teaches me that Christ can save to the uttermost that tho my sins are as scarlet and crimthe loss of

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son, heavier than the mountains, greater in number than the hairs of my head and the sands of the seashore, there is such abundance of satisfaction and merits in the satisfaction, by virtue of His Person, that, tho I had the sins of the human race, they would be, compared to the satisfaction of Christ, which has by virtue of His Person an infinite value, as a drop to a bucket and as a small dust in the balance. And this convinces my soul that my sin, instead of being an obstacle, much rather adds to the glory of the redemption, that sovereign grace was pleased to make me an everlasting monument of infinite compassion. Formerly, I always confessed my sin reluctantly it was wrung from my lips against my will only because I was driven to it by my anguish, for I always thought. The more I confess my sin, the farther I will be from salvation and the nearer my approach to eternal condemnation and, fool that I was, I disguised my ;

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guilt.

But, since

I

know

that Jesus

is

so all-sufficient,

now

I

cry out.

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