The Work of the Holy Spirit

And if a justified sinner die immediately after his justification is sealed to his soul, he may shout with joy, for, in spite of ...

It is also evident that the sinner’s justification need not wait until he is converted, nor until he has become conscious, nor e ...

371 ungodly, and in the preparing of salvation more particularly the Son who in His Incarnation and Resurrection brings about ju ...

372 XXXIII. Certainty of Our Justification. “Being justified freely by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Je- s ...

from its root. If our churches desire once more to be strong in the doctrine and bold in witness-bearing, they must not repose i ...

It can not be otherwise. For since all acts of men, even the very best of the most holy among them, are always defiled with sin, ...

How is this to be understood? Is it the Person of the Christ who takes us into partnership? And, since God has no longer to reck ...

“1st. That I shall be again daily defiled with sin; “2d. That I shall have a sinful heart within me until the day of my death; “ ...

378 Seventh Chapter. Faith Seventh Chapter. Faith Seventh Chapter. Faith ...

XXXIV. Faith in General. “Through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.”—Ephes. ii. 8. Whenthe judicial act ...

one can turn in the wrong direction ignorantly, is the fruit of the long conflict waged with so much patience and talent. Undoub ...

nothing to do. And the preacher, using this and similar examples otherwise than as a faint analogy, does not explain but obscure ...

ciently loved and appreciated are said tobelieve. But even this faith has nothing in common with saving faith; to speak of this ...

384 XXXV. Faith and Knowledge “He that believeth in the Son hath everlasting life; and he that believeth not the Son shall not s ...

his thoughts, his affections and their sincerity, his character and its trustworthiness, and anything pertaining to his inward l ...

bring his mind into contact with the outside world. But the senses teach him nothing con- cerning the world of invisible things, ...

of the body, and the life everlasting. And we do not believe in all these with the secret after- thought that we would really pr ...

not to trust him. To believe that he is what he claims to be, and not trust him, is simply im- possible. Hence “to believe” alwa ...

390 XXXVI. Brakel and Comrie.^24 “If in anything ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.” —Phil.iii. 15. We ...

“The question is: What is the essential, fundamental act of faith? Is it the assent of the mind to the Gospel and its Promises, ...