The Work of the Holy Spirit

ural emotions. Thus they may be moved to tears, and they ardently love whatever so affects them. Yea, they often perform many go ...

Hence we deny that the regenerate, hearing the preached Word, will come of himself. We do not thus understand their cooperation. ...

men!” then he is to say, “Get thee behind, me, Satan,” giving the glory to the Holy Spirit alone. 347 However, it is not the Hol ...

became pliant; by which that which was inclined to the left was drawn to the right. And so, by this last act, conviction, with a ...

349 XXIX. Conversion of All That Come “Turn Thou me and I shall be turned.” —Jer.xxxi. 18. The elect, born again and effectually ...

the sinner, are afraid “to speak to deaf ears.” Hence they prayfor the conversion of the hearers, but dare not in the Name of th ...

“Conversion,” in its limitedsense, signifies saving conversion, as in Isa. lv. 7: “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unri ...

wheels and springs of man’s regenerated personality, so that all His operations must pass through man’s ego. Many of His operati ...

354 Sixth Chapter. Justification Sixth Chapter. Justification Sixth Chapter. Justification ...

XXX. Justification “Being justified freely by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Je- sus.”—Rom.iii. 24. The Hei ...

Regarding the question, how justification differs, on the one hand, from “regeneration,” and, on the other, from “calling and co ...

such sinner must be not only healed, but punished. He does not need medicaltreatment alone, but before all things he needs jurid ...

place the juridical feature of the sinner’s relation to his God. When this is done, we shall feel again the stimulus that will c ...

that, by being silent on the question of God’s right, and of our state of condemnation, and by being satisfied when the people “ ...

361 XXXI. Our Status “And he believed in the Lord: and he counted it to him for righteousness.” —Gen.xv. 6. The right touches a ...

the king has decided, once for all, that every citizen never convicted of crime is counted honorable. Not because all are honora ...

generations, forevermore.“ (Psalm cvi. 31) So it is said of Jesus, that “He was counted [numbered] with the transgressors” (Mark ...

And why is this? Is it because the human consciousness can not conceive the idea of being counted according to what we are not? ...

Oh, this matter goes so deep! When to the Lord God is again ascribed His sovereign prerogative to determine a man’s status, then ...

XXXII. Justification from Eternity. “The righteousness which is of God by faith.” —Phil.iii. 9. 367 It has become evident that t ...