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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. A God-possessed Soul IN previous chapters we have described holiness as that state of grace in which all sin is excluded from the heart, but there is always a positive as well as a negative aspect of spiritual life. This is true both of the new birth and entire sanctification. In conversion the negative aspect is pardon, the positive is regeneration, the impartation of the life of God to the soul. There are no degrees of pardon: it is full, perfect, and complete; but on the positive side perpetual increase is the order: there is "life," and "more abundant life." In like manner, while the negative aspect of holiness is the purging of the heart from all that is carnal--and this a full, complete, and entire work, without degrees and gradualism--there is also a positive aspect of holiness which is never separate from the negative; the one always implies the other. This positive blessing is the complete filling of the soul with the life of God. Justification is our coming to Christ; sanctification is Christ coming to us. Entire sanctification is to be entirely possessed by Christ--so filled with His life that sin and Satan are cast out. We must not simply possess life, but the life must possess us. Sin flies before the Divine presence as darkness flies before the light. All would be darkness but for the presence of the light; and all would be sin within us but for the presence of the life. "What Thou fillest, Lord, is pure, What Thou keepest can endure; But Thy temple, void of Thee, Foul, not only frail, must be." Some teach that the condition on which God dwells in the soul is the soul's purifying itself to receive Him; but we cannot cleanse our hearts so as to bring Christ into them; we must let Him come and cleanse them by...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230234837
- ISBN 13 9781230234830
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages50
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