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The Doctrine of Sanctification 16. Its Securer (COMPLETED) "Sanctification of the Spirit" (2 Thess. 2:13) is a comprehensive expression which has a fourfold significance at least. First, it points to that supernatural operation of the Spirit whereby a sinner is "created in Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2:10),... Read More

The Doctrine of Sanctification 9. ITS NATURE (CONTINUED) The threefold signification of the term "to sanctify." Perhaps the simplest and surest method to pursue in seeking to arrive at a correct understanding of the nature of sanctification is to follow up the meaning of the word itself, for in Scri... Read More

THE HOLY SPIRIT Chapter 11 The Spirit Quickening We shall now confine ourselves to the initial operation of the Spirit within the elect of God. Different writers have employed the term "regeneration" with varying latitude: some restricting it unto a single act, others including the whole process by ... Read More

THE HOLY SPIRIT Chapter 24 The Spirit Sealing Closely connected with the Spirit’s work of witnessing with the Christian’s spirit that he is a child of God, is His operation in sealing. This appears clearly from 2 Corinthians 1:19-22 and Ephesians 1:13. The riches of the Christian are found in the pr... Read More

THE HOLY SPIRIT Chapter 27 The Spirit Transforming 2 Corinthians 3:18 Just as there are certain verses in the Old Testament and the Gospels which give us a miniature of the redemptive work of Christ for God’s people—such, for example, as Isaiah 53:5 and John 3:16—so in the Epistles there are some co... Read More

THE HOLY SPIRIT Chapter 28 The Spirit Preserving During recent years much has been written upon the eternal security of the saints, some of it helpful, but most of it superficial and injurious. Many Scriptures have been quoted, but few of them explained. A great deal has been said about the fact of ... Read More

THE HOLY SPIRIT Chapter 29 The Spirit Confirming In view of the preceding chapter on the Spirit preserving, there is really no need for us to take up another aspect of the subject which so closely approximates thereto—yet a little reflection has persuaded us that it may be wise to do so. Some of our... Read More

The Satisfaction of Christ Studies in the Atonement 18. Its Effects Having dwelt at length upon the principle "results" which the Satisfaction of the Mediator has secured, we turn now to look at some of its leading "effects." The distinction we have in mind is not very clearly intimated by these two... Read More

"Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not My way equal? are not your ways unequal?" (Ezek. 18:25). A convenient point has been reached when we may now examine, more definitely, some of the difficulties encountered and the objections which might be advanced ag... Read More

"But he knoweth the way that I take; when he hath tried me I shall come forth as gold" (JOB 23:10). Job here corrects himself. In the beginning of the chapter we find him saying: "Even today is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning" (vv. 1 & 2). Poor Job felt that his lot was un... Read More