The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 518

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SANCTIFICATION

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positive, evil effects, are inclined to

Antinomianism, and reduce from the old man, reject-

sanctification to a fancied emancipation

ing the rising of the new.

Of course,

The

this

touches the doctrine of the old man and the new.

representation that the soul of the converted

an arena

is

where the two are engaged in a hand-to-hand fight is incorrect, and has not a single satisfactory text for its support. We reject the two following representations: that of the Antinomian, who says: "The believing ego is the new man in Christ Jesus; I am not responsible for the old man, the personal, sinful ego he may sin as much as he please"; and the representation of the Pietist, who considers him still the old man, partly renewed, and who is always busy to remodel him. These two do not belong to Christ's ;

Church.

The

Scripture teaches, not that the old

ing changed into the until nothing of

new but ;

him remains.

man is sanctified by beman must be mortified

that the old

Neither does

it

teach that in regen-

man is renewed — the remainder to be patched up gradually — but that an entirely new man is implanted. eration a small part only of the old

This

of greatest importance for the right understanding of

is

these holy things.

Sin wrought in us an old man, the body of sin

body and the Pietist with all his works of piety can never galvanize a single muscle in his body. He is altogether unprofitable, and must perish under his just connot merely a part, but the whole, with

and

Hence that

soul.

old

man must

all

that belongs to him,

die,

demnation. In like

which

in us a new creature, we may not take the new old. The two have nothing same personality. The new

manner God graciously regenerates

is also

man as the in common

a

cotnplete

man.

Therefore

gradual restoration of the but the mutual basis of the

does not spring from the the germ, he

may

old,

but supersedes him.

Being only in

be buried in the newly regenerate, but he will

and then God's work appears gloriously. God is his Author, Not the old man, but the new man cries out "Abba. Father!"

arise

Creator, and Father.

However, our ego

is

related to the dying old

new man. The ego of a man they are the same. ;

non-elect person

But

in the

enly glory, the ego of God's children

is

man and

the rising

identified with the old

consummation of the heavwith the new man.

is identified

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