The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 407

XXXII. from Eternity.

Justification

"

The

righteousness which

by faith."— /'/it/,

It has

cerns us

become evident

is,

that the question which

we

not whether

are

more or

less holy,

iii.

is

of

God

9.

most closely conbut whether our

and that this is deterany given moment, but by God as our

status is that of the just or of the unjust,

mined not by what we

are at

Sovereign and Judge. In

on

Adam's creation God put

us,

without any preceding merits After the fall,

our part, in the state of original righteousness.

according to the same sovereign prerogative, He put us, as Adam's descendants, in the state of unrighteousness, imputing Adam's guilt

And in exactly the same manner He now jusHe places him, without any previous merit tifies the ungodly, of righteousness according to His own holy state on his part, in the

to each personally.

i.e..

and inviolable prerogative. In the creation

develop

He

did not

first

wait to see whether man would him righteous on the

holiness in himself, so as to declare

ground of this holiness but He declared him originally righteous, even before there was a possibility on his part of evincing a desire And after the fall He did not wait to see whether sin for holiness. ;

would manifest itself in us, so as to assign us to the state of the unrighteous on the ground of this sin but before our birth, before there was a possibility of personal sin, He declared us guilty. And a sinner in the same manner God does not wait to see whether as a honor to him restore to order in conversion of signs shows righteous person, but He declares the ungodly just before he has ;

had the least possibility of doing any good work. Hence there is a sharp line between our sandification and our The former has to do with the quality of our being, justification. depends upon our faith, and can not be effected outside of us. But

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