Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray
The Way to a Life Abiding Continually in the Secret of God's Presence
The Way to a Life Abiding Continually in the Secret of God's Presence
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LET US DRAW NIGH 57<br />
VIIT.<br />
©ur JBoDg Wasbek<br />
X.—22. <strong>Let</strong> us draw near . . . our body washed<br />
with pure water.<br />
Man belongs to<br />
invisible.<br />
two worlds, the visible and the<br />
In his constitution, the material and<br />
the spiritual, body and soul, are wonderfully<br />
united. In the fall both came under the power<br />
of sin and death; in redemption deliverance<br />
has been provided for both. It is not only in<br />
the interior life of the soul, but in that of the<br />
body too, that the power of<br />
manifested.<br />
redemption can be<br />
In the Old Testament worship, the external<br />
was the more prominent. It consisted mostly<br />
in carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of<br />
reformation. They taught a measure of truth,<br />
they exercised a certain influence on the heart,<br />
but they could not make the worshipper perfect.<br />
It was only with the New Testament that the<br />
religion of the inner life, the worship of God<br />
in spirit and truth, was revealed. And yet we