The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 484

IV. Sanctification

and

Justification {Continued). •'

He

that

is

holy, let

—Rev. xxii.

The

him be holy

still."

ii.

divine Righteousness, having reference to the divine Sover-

eignty, in one sense does not manifest itself until

relationship with the creatures. all eternity, for

He was

God

enters into

glorious in holiness from

man's creation did not modify His Being; but His

righteousness could not be displayed before creation, because right

presupposes two beings sustaining the jural relation. An exile on an uninhabited island can not be righteous nor do righteously; he can not even conceive of the jural relation so long as there

who

is

no man present whose rights he must

The

can deny his rights.

arrival of other

create the jural relation between

remains alone, he

may

him and them.

respect, or

will necessarily

But so long as he

be holy or unholy, but he can not be said to

be righteous or unrighteous. that before creation

men

He was

In like

manner

it

may

be said of

God

holy, but could not display His right-

eousness simply because there were no creatures sustaining toward

Him

Still

tent.

But immediately

the jural relation.

display of righteousness

became

the illustration can be applied to

Essentially

God

is

after the creation the

possible.

God only

to a certain ex-

not alone, but Triune in persons; hence

between the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit a muThis relation, being the highest, tenderest, and most intimate, contains from eternity the completest expression of righteousness. And even with reference to the creature, the divine

there

is

tual relation.

righteousness did not originate until after the creation, but finds That counsel not only perfect expression in the eternal counsel.

determines every possible jural relation between the creatures and the Creator, and the creatures themselves, but indicates also the

means whereby turbed.

this relation

must be restored when broken or

dis-

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