The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 88

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X. Organic and Individual. is He that put His Holy Spirit among them ? " Isa. Ixiii. ii.

" Where

The

subsequent activity of the Holy Spirit

lies in

the realm of

grace.

God appears

In nature the Spirit of

We call

re-creating.

it ri?-creation,

as creating, in grace as because God's grace creates not

something inherently new, but a new

life in

an old and degraded

nature.

But this must not be understood as tho grace restored only what had destroyed. For then the child of God, born anew and sanctified, must be as Adam was in Paradise before the fall. Many understand it so, and present it as follows In Paradise Adam became diseased; the poison of eternal corruption entered his soul and penetrated his whole being. Now comes the Holy Spirit as the

sin

:

remedy

physician, carrying the

the balm into his wounds.

pours

heals his bruises and renews his

youth; and thus man, born again, healed, and renewed, to their view, precisely

He

of grace to heal him.

He

what the

first

man was

is,

according

in the state of recti-

Once more the provisions of the covenant of works are laid upon him. By his good works he is again to inherit eternal life. Again he may fall like Adam and become a prey of eternal death. But this whole view is wrong. Grace does not place the ungodly two very different things. in a state of rectitude, but justifies him tude.

—

He

that stands in a state of rectitude has certainly an original

righteousness, but this he

Adam

failed.

He must

may

lose;

consistency must discover

itself.

be unrighteous to-morrow. But when God justifies a sinner ent state.

The righteousness

this righteousness?

Was

he

may

be tried and

vindicate his righteousness.

He who

He

is

puts

of Christ

Its

fail

righteous to-day

Him

becomes

as

inward

may

in a totally differhis.

And what

Jesus in a state of rectitude only?

is

In no

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