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'We were studying the Epistle to the Ephesians, and had got to the end of the third chapter, when we read the last two verses: "Now unto him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory,"etc. This expression fell upon my soul as a revelation from God. 'He can do by his power,' I said to my self, 'above all that we ask, above all even that we think; nay, exceeding abundantly above all.' A full trust in Christ for the work to be done within my poor heart now filled my soul. We all three knelt down, and although I had never fully confided my inward struggles to my friends, the prayer of Rien was filled with as much admirable faith as he would have uttered had he known all my wants. When I arose in the inn room at Kiel, I felt as if my 'wings were renewed as the wings of eagles.' From that time forward I comprehended that all my own efforts were of no avail; that Christ was able to do all by his 'power that worketh in us.' And the habitual attitude of my soul was to be at the foot of the cross, crying to Him: 'Here am I, bound hand and foot, unable to move, unable to do the least thing to get away from the enemy who oppresses me. Do all thyself. I know that thou wilt do it, thou wilt even do 'exceeding abundantly above all that I ask.' I was not disappointed; all my doubts were removed, my anguish was quelled; and the Lord 'extended to me peace as a river.' Then I could comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height, and know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge. Then I was able to say: 'Return unto thy rest, O my soul! for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.'" The experience of this able, learned, and spiritual Lutheran was like that of his Catholic, Presbyterian, and Methodist brethren. (1) It came "some years after his conversion," when he had "experienced the joys of the new birth," "had peace with God," and "knew himself forgiven and accepted," but realized that "he lacked perfect joy and the peace of God keeping his heart and mind." (2) That it came instantaneously, on condition of his ceasing from his own efforts after growth into this blessing, and a " full trust in Christ" to do it all himself. (3) All his doubts were removed, his anguish was quelled, and the Lord gave him peace as a river. In a word, Paul's wonderful prayer in Ephesians iii. 16-19 was answered in his experience. (4) He knew when the blessing came. He "was not disappointed" in his faith and expectation, but was enabled to say, "The Lord hath dealt bountifully with me." (5) It was permanent -- was an ethical fullness -- as his future life and work show. One has well said: "Not less did D'Aubigne need that deeper experience and illumination [alluded to above] to fit him to produce the history of the Reformation -- that historic exposition of the doctrine of justification by faith. There are things of God hidden in the Scriptures, diffused through human history, and inwrought with religious experience, which no intellectual acumen, however subtle, can grasp. Therefore, for every kind and quality of service we need the Paraclete." This gifted and devout German doubtless had this abiding Anointer and Sanctifier. In commenting on the above related experience, Dr. Gordon well says: "Here indeed was a most blessed experience; but not something strange and exceptional in religious biography. We can trace the same thing under different names through many saintly lives. The "inward death" of Mysticism; the "divine stillness" of Quietism; the "rest of faith" of the
ethren of the High Life -- all these terms are readily translated back into the one idea of the peace of God ruling in the heart. It is, in a word, the perfect quiet which comes to the soul that is yielded [5] up in perfect self-surrender to God. Tauler constantly describing it as the fountain of that wonderful second life of his after his two years retirement from the pulpit into the cell. "If a man truly loves God," says he, "and has no will but to do God's will, the whole force of the river Rhine may run at him and will not disturb him or break his peace." In speaking of this experience, Tauler says that its possessor enjoys "the most quiet and peaceful liberty, being uplifted above all fear and agitation of mind concerning death or hell, or any other things which might happen to the soul either in time or in eternity." Well said and most true! *************************************
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SCRIPTURAL SANCTIFICATION: An Attem
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the gospel was first preached. Rede
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with tongue and pen as if in the gr
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extravagances of some unbalanced mi
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all depravity in this life, and tha
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elief of the truth." Peter tells th
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"separate and consecrate," and to h
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"Strengthened with might by His Spi
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mind" -- are removed and nothing is
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Job was one of the finest character
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Peacemaker. Hence, probably, peace
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given before. And yet, as all admit
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(2) There seems to be today a large
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It is believed, however, that there
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The ignorant and captious part of t
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to what Joel prophesied about. The
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the Spirit that had been promised b
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"An influential and constantly incr
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pollution, and weakness, as well as
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Now, with these concessions and exp
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a fuller measure of the Spirit when
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Dr. Mudge would explain the case of
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Truth and candor require admissions
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his theory and ours seems to be tha
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that time. In a letter to the write
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Dr. Steele continues: "That the Eng
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these Paul is believed to teach tha
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prayers; remembering without ceasin
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3. The use of the aorist indicates
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lay my head upon my pillow until I
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"I have said enough; the half I hav
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"A meeting commenced in my church.
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itter opposition on the part of oth
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But other physicians and patients a
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God. Sons are born into his family
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"What is meant and what is true is
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I strong" in God, because "the powe
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that while a man's heart is right w
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Before leaving this point we would
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we need the work of regeneration at
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shrink from the awful mystery and t
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the truth of his teaching concernin
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supposed. I was conscious of feelin
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In speaking of the love which resul
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chapter, calls "carnal" and "babes
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dedication of the temple, and is, "
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2. Does sanctification eradicate or
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meaning here seems vague. However,
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(3) Another reason is the greater u
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"'Then kneel right down here and pr
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Presbyterian minister's wife, who h
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Pentecost came after our Lord's ful
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wondrous love, ought it not to make
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is, however, more or less of strife
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may see what Israel needs, and then
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President Finney made the same comp
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teacher with power to teach his or
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whole spirit, and soul, and body be
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filth" -- hence that it needs no fo
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