The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 537

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GOOD WORKS

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same, the difference in the seeds causes differences in the plants,

and opposite effects. The same applies

garden of the soul, where the human But that same human life produces a base There is but one working, act to-day and a heroic act to-morrow. black, white or dark or light. may be vary, it colors but the garden of the the soul all spontaneous find, that in we And this the which while seed God has planted growth of weeds is a ; growth to the

life is in full activity.

produces precious />«/'/. The effects of sanctification are evident. It lends to It causes sweet waters to flow from a bitter fountain. every operation

its

own

quality and property, and gives

tion

which works for good.

man

lost in himself.

Of course, in the fold.

And

root, this

One springs from

it

a direc-

thus good works proceed from the

apparently identical working

is

the old nature, the other from the

the one from the natural, the other from the supernatural. since this distinction

was discussed

at large in the chapter

two-

new But

on Re-

we treat it now simply from the utiity of the person. Altho we heartily agree with the Confession, " That a regenerated person has in him a twofold life the one temporal scadi corporeal, that which he has from the first birth and is common to all men

generation,

:

the other spiritual and heavenly, which birth,

and which

is

is

given him in the second

peculiar to God's elect"

not affect the unity of the person, nor does operations of both the old and the

new

(art. 35)

it

life

;

yet this does

alter the fact that the

are

my

operations.

If

my person,

and take the natural and the supernatural each by itself, then there is no sanctification at all for the corrupt life of my old nature is not sanctified, but crucified, dead, and buried and my heavenly, spiritual, and regenerated life can not be sanctified inasmuch as it never was sinful nor ever can be. Hence in sanctification we have to consider life from the viewpoint of the unity and indivisibility of the person. The man who was first wedded to the corrupt nature, and who is now wedded to the new man, was then evil and is now to become good wherefore his life must receive the holy desire, inclination, and disposition. And then only it is possible for it to produce good works. I

divide

;

;

A

work

I.

The

mine what

is

good when

it is

first point is that is

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good or

evil.

conformable to the divine law.

God

alone possesses the right to deter-

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