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4. St. John teaches the same lesson when he calls young converts "little children," older Christians "young men" and maturer ones "fathers." The distinguishing characteristic of the "young men" was that they were "strong" and, in that strength, had "overcome the wicked one." That of the "little children" was that they had had their "sins forgiven" them -- were converted -- but had not been made "strong," and had not, in the same sense, "overcome the wicked one." They were weak and unestablished, and were more liable to yield to the power of Satan. That of the "fathers" was that they had "known him that is from the beginning" -- had, after being baptized or strengthened by the Spirit, grown richer in the knowledge of Christ and His salvation. 5. That had been the teaching of their Lord before they wrote their epistles. His regenerate disciples were to "tarry at Jerusalem," to be "indued with power" or strength "from on high," by having the whole Godhead take full possession of them. It was not until they had been thus filled with the Spirit -- the Trinity -- that they were completely saved from moral weakness, spiritual depravity, and that perfect harmony was restored to man's disordered nature, and he was brought into full communion and fellowship with his offended God. It is the work of sanctification to secure this complete restoration -- to bring the Holy Spirit, the Godhead, back to man's enervated and polluted nature, securing purity and the "power" to keep pure. It is when God, especially in the person of the Spirit, takes the place in man's nature that he occupied before the fall that this complete work is done. The following passage from Professor Beet is in harmony with this view. He says: "The Spirit of Christ is the agent of the spiritual contact with Christ which imparts to us His presence and reproduces in us His life. As we have seen, every impulse of the Spirit is toward God, and he is given to us that He may fill our hearts, become soul of our soul, and lead out toward God our thoughts, purposes, words, and actions. And he is the bearer of the power as well as the holiness of Christ. By His omnipotence the Spirit of God rolls back and completely neutralizes the evil forces within us, so that they no longer defile us, and in spite of these bears upward our entire being in absolute devotion to God." Hence we half agree with Dr. Mudge in the following: "Instead of 'cleansing,' then, we would suggest that of 'empowering' as a much better term to use, and one less liable to mislead, for the effect of God's incoming to the heart of man." For the "empowering" of the soul by the Spirit, as at Pentecost, involves its "cleansing" from the defilement resulting from past weakness, and such a daily infusion of "strength" as enables it to keep clean. As more or less clearly showing the difference between regeneration and sanctification, we give the following illustration, the use of which, we think, is justified by our Lord's teaching in the parable of the sower: As a plat of ground, the heart is overgrown with the thorns and briers of sin. In justification this growth is removed, leaving the roots of these thorns and briers in the soil. In regeneration good seed is sown in the heart from which immediately springs the plant of faith bearing the fruit of love, joy, and peace. At the same time, or very soon thereafter, "shoots" from these thorn and brier roots spring up, and tend to "choke" the plant of faith. In sanctification these roots -- "the remains of the carnal
mind" -- are removed and nothing is left in the heart that is different from, or antagonistic to, this plant of faith and its fruit of love, etc. At the same time, and in the same process, this plant of faith may be greatly invigorated and the conditions of its growth greatly improved, so that the future development of that plant and its fruit is much more healthy, symmetrical, and rapid. *************************************
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We have purposely omitted many pass
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In controverting the above, Dr. Gor
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It would seem from the foregoing th
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this "renewal," "sanctification," o
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standards on this subject." And we
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Bishop Ninde comes the nearest to t
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the man whom the Rev. Dr. D. C. Kel
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Peter's case illustrates the meanin
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consciousness of repentance; (3) co
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Let the doubting reader weigh well
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We are profoundly convinced that th
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witnesses, to testify, not merely f
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divinely inspired, is but the Bible
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give many passages of his writings
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The same test was applied to regene
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Again he says: "Not trusting to the
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As late as 1768 he writes a friend,
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I now obey it, and tell you all, to
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We, for a time, turn from Methodist
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"Since that resignation spoken of b
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ethren of the High Life -- all thes
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Kirk, in his lectures on Revivals,
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"It was on the 23d of April, 1822,
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to me to be the witness of the Holy
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day in the Congregational Church. T
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about the truth of the gospel, and
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the shadow of one of those doubts w
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purpose than I did ... For eighteen
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"How has it been with me since?" Th
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We note the usual expressions of th
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"Never shall I forget the astonishm
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"And now, if I am asked what is my
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7. That she was not backslidden whe
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We only stress certain points: 1. H
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unbroken communion with him that th
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"The weary burden grew heavier with
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doctrine of sanctification by faith
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"I do not find this life -- what in
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In commenting on the foregoing expe
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service, the whole membership were
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temperance and social purity than a
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After telling of his going to a cam
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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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