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XXVI.TheMystical Union with Immanuel. " Christ in you the hope of glory."— Col.i.27.The unionof believers with Christ their Head is not effected bydivine-human life-tincture into the soul. There is no divine-human life. There is a most holy Person, who un ...
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REGENERATION334 unites with thehumanof the divine natureHence as" tonature,wewhich we hadbe adopted asare merely restored to the likeness lostby" toare contrasts, so are also the following:Himself" a ...
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THE MYSTICAL UNION WITH IMMANUEL Tho thoublood, Live.art poor, betrothing thee,My treasure.partaker of Myself and ofIwill335maketheeBut a treasure of thine ownthou shalt never possess."This point should be firmly ...
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REGENERATION336when the Lord God begins to work when in love's hour Eternal Love con-but in our regenerationbirth,supernaturally in our souls;;Until then the mystic union was hid Mediator; but in and by regeneration theceives in us the child ...
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;THE MYSTICAL UNION WITH IMMANUEL not attainHimseefor thenits fullestasHeHeis;unfolding until every lack be supplied andandin that blissful visionHewill give us all thatus partakersfirs ...
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THE CALLING OF THE REGENERATE where the mendivide,of the purified, thatis,the339Reformed Con-with their opponents.company Having stated this fact forcibly andfession, partimportance todefinitely, it is of thestate ...
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—3f(ftbCbapter.CALLING AND REPENTANCE.XXVIL TheCalling of the Regenerate."Whom He didpredestinate,Rom.also called."them Heviii. 30.In order to hear, the sinner, deaf by nature, must receive hearing ears." ...
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CALLING AND REPENTANCE342not the Holy Spirit, but the dominie, might, and the Holy Spiritall hisTo avoid suchisthe worker; he works withmay bethe minister's assistant.mistake, our Reformed churches have always purgedthemselves ...
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XXVIII.The Comingof the Called. " That the purpose ofGod accordingto election might stand, not ofworks, but of— Rom. TheHimthat calleth."ix. II.whether the elect cooperate in the call. call is no call, in the fullest sense of t ...
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:THE COMING OF THE CALLED345But as long as there is no love for God, there is nothing. For mere willingness to do something for God, even to bear great sacrifices, and to be very pious and benevolent, except it spring from the right motive, is in its deepest ground nothing bu ...