The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 403

OUR STATUS This

is

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the case even in matters where mistakes are out of the

At the time of the king's death and of the pregnancy of widow, a prince or princess is counted to exist, even before he And, accordingly, while the child is still a nursing or she is born. babe, it is counted to be the owner of large possessions, even tho these possessions may be entirely lost, before the child can hear question.

his

And

of them. condition,

number

so there are a

of cases

where standing and

without anybody's fault or mistake, are entirely different;

simply because

it is

possible that a

man be

in a state into

which he

has not yet grown.

The king alone can determine

his

own

status

;

pleases him

if it

to-morrow incognito, as a count or a baron, he relieved from the usual royal honors.

will be

to register

We

have elaborated this point more largely, because the Ethiand the Mystics have got our poor people so bitterly out of the habit of reckoning with this counting of God. The word of Scripture, " Abraham believed, and it was counted to him for righteousness," is no longer understood or it is made to refer to the merit of faith, which is Arminian doctrine. The Holy Spirit often speaks of this counting of God " I am counted -with, them that go down into the pit"; "The Lord shall " And it was counted count them when He writeth up the peoples " cals

;

:

;

So

more."

it is

said of Jesus, that

with the transgressors " eleven

"

;

;

"

"his faith was counted unto

worketh "

not,

"

his faith is counted unto

children of the promise that

"

counted [numbered]

he was counted with the

which keeps the law, that

" it

for

Abraham that righteousness"; of him "that

Him

that justifieth the ungodly,"

him

but believeth on

generations, forever-

He was

of Judas that

of the i^^circumcision

all

be counted unto him for circumcision

shall

that

unto

Phineas for righteousness

unto

him

"

;

of

for righteousness "

;

and of the

they are counted iov the seed."

It is this very counting that appears to the children of this present age so incomprehensible and problematic. They will not hear of it. And, as Rome at one time severed the tendon of the Gospel, by merging justification in sanctification, mixing and identifying

the two, so do people cal justification,

Hence God's

now

which

is

refuse to listen to anything but an Ethiactually only a species of sanctification.

counting counts for nothing.

has no worth nor significance attached to

it.

It is

not heeded.

The only question

It is

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