The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 463

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TESTIMONIES

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This is not for by itself, when neglected causes the soul to think God knows how many a poor soul sinks away in this me, but for others. depth, and is kept there by others who speak boastingly. However, when the Holy Spirit causes the divine Gospel to shine into the dark prison of the soul, to illuminate the eyes of the inwrought faith with a heavenly and divine light, the soul receives the Gospel as good news, and '

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Great sinners have

In the distance the

gates of the City of Refuge are seen wide open, and Jesus is waiting behind those walls— yea. His glory is seen shining through the gates. And in this way, by means of the heavenly light, which pours in upon the in-

wrought Christ,

obtains knowledge of the secret of the Lord in revealed to her. How often this knowledge causes the

faith, the soul

who

is

go out in holy desires, we need not tell. Many seem to attain with one step or bound the highest degree but, like noble exotics, the true faith grows slowly, step by step, from preceding depths of humiliation, until it is perfected in actual work and exercise. "Second, this knowledge is a divine light of the Holy Spirit in, from, soul to

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the Gospel, by which I know Christ, who is its Alpha and Otnega, as the glorious, precious, excellent, and soul-rejoicing Pearl and Treasure hid in this field. Altho I knew all things, and I did not know Jesus by the light of the Spirit, my soul would be a shop full of mis-

and through

a sepulcher appearing beautiful without, but within full of dead And this knowledge of Christ, imparted to the soul by the light, through the Gospel, can never from itself divine of inshining

eries

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men's bones.

give any light to the soul so long as it is not accompanied by the immeFor it is not the diate inworking and illumination of the Holy Spirit. direct working of the soul, but the letter which is effectually working in the

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Spirit

by means

of the letter.

And now you may ask.

In what respect must

I

know Jesus ?

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will

This knowledge of faith, the knowledge by which I know, is a object of which is Christ in the Gospel, through the divine light of the Holy Spirit, my absolute need of Christ. farthing to I see that I owe ten thousand talents, and that I have not a pay and that I must have a surety to pay my debts. I see that I am a I see that I am dead and impolost sinner, who is in need of a Savior. confine ourselves to the following matters

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and that I need Him who is able to quicken me and to save me. I see that before God I can not stand, and that I need Him as a gobetween. I see that I go astray, and that He must seek after me. Oh the more this necessity of Christ presses upon me, from this true knowledge of faith, the more earnest, intense, heart-melting, and persevering

tent in myself

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