The Work of the Holy Spirit

the Word, is deeply impressed; persuaded by its threats and promises, he repents, arises, and accepts the Savior. Hence there is ...

have no conscious faith, nor knowledge of the treasure possessed. The new life is present, but dormant; kept not by the recipien ...

Hence conversion merges itself in sanctification. This is also a divine act, and not human; not a growing toward Christ, but an ...

299 XX. Its Course “No man can come unto Me, except the Father draw him.” —Johnvi. 44. Fromthe preceding it is evident that prep ...

By this confession the Reformed Church proved to be in accord with God’s Word and not less with the actual facts. With few excep ...

The same applies to the elect of the second class. Altho we concede that the divine call works upon such during their tender yea ...

grace, yet we may never forget that the eternal reality does not fully correspond to this part of our analysis. Hence, in the el ...

304 XXI. Regeneration the Work of God. “The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath even made both of them.”—Prov.xx. 12. ...

Hence without regeneration the sinner is utterly unprofitable. What is the use of an ear except it hear, or of an eye except it ...

Hence our election, foreordination, justification, and glorification precede the new birth. It is true that, in the hour of love ...

conversion, as, e.g., the canons of Dort use it now and then, regeneration is not a moral working in the soul. It is not simply ...

And this applies in stronger sense to the mystery of our second birth. Post-mortem ex- amination can detect the embryo and its l ...

310 XXII. The Work of Regeneration. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold ...

the wild pear, or a beautiful double tea rose upon the wild rose, and the former will yield luscious fruit and the latter magnif ...

Still the new nature must draw its saps through the oldnature; apart from the graft, the trunk remains wild. Hence before as wel ...

(1) In His own mind God conceives the new man; whom (2) He modifies according to a particular person, thus creating the new man; ...

315 XXIII. Regeneration and Faith. “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which l ...

conferred by means of admonitions; and the more readily we perform our duty, the more eminent usually is this blessing of God wo ...

And what is this mysterious working? According to the universal testimony based upon Scripture, it is an operation of the Holy S ...

Condensing the foregoing, there is one great act of God which re-creates the corrupt sinner into a new man, viz., the comprehens ...