To be near unto God - pagina 453

to obtain perregenerating us he has enabled us he did not wait sonal fellowship with him, that him, but that ^e made the till we had found from withapproach to us and touched us not the deepest that out but from within, and he estabhshed the secrecy of the life of the soul the taste his presence tie which made us to the deepest ground very roots of our being, immediacy of our first of our sensations, in the

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who is "^ost natural gifts and talents, for he of it, and endowed with genius may suffer the lack may enjoy it to the the plainest among the plam implanted the In humamty itself God has full. Sm alone has disturbed it. disposition for this. disposition. Then In regeneration God restores this Then fellowship fellowship IS possible again. Then in the deepest secrecy of hi. richly

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man is one again v/ith God It is not This is the work of the Comforter. will be all joyous which state, heavenly yet the only, but when even the memory of our sm not sinners will been having ever our of of the fact into the depth be taken from us, and will be cast feel that we undergo a of the sea. Here we still having o^^ underDivine, artistic operation. By blinded and forstanding darkened and by being again of the saken we are reminded again and thB

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have been born Holy Ghost, and the fact that we S sin With us the Holy Spirit continuously nature. reacts against our, sinful

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our .pomforter. here on earth he is and remains a chdd of dust, For this is the blessed comfort of 449

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