The Life of Penitence

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE III. THE EEPEOOF OF THE SPIRIT THE POWEE OF CONVEESION. S. John xvi. 8. He WILL BEPBOTE THE WOBLD OF SIN, AND OF BIOHTEOUSNESS, AND OF JUDGMENT. Our Lord had been speaking of His own removal into the unseen world, the consequent Advent of the Blessed Comforter, and the gain that would thence ensue...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE III. THE EEPEOOF OF THE SPIRIT THE POWEE OF CONVEESION. S. John xvi. 8. He WILL BEPBOTE THE WOBLD OF SIN, AND OF BIOHTEOUSNESS, AND OF JUDGMENT. Our Lord had been speaking of His own removal into the unseen world, the consequent Advent of the Blessed Comforter, and the gain that would thence ensue to His elect. It is expedient for you that I go away.1 Among other blessings, destined to flow forth on the coming of that Blessed Spirit, depended the hope of a true conviction of sin. Our Lord speaks of the effect of the Holy Spirit's Advent, as though there had been no consciousness of sin awakened till then; because, by contrast of the greater work wrought by His Presence, all former convictions would seem to have been as nothing. He shall reprove the world, ?as though the world had not been reproved before. This reproving, or convincing,3 as 1 S. John ?vi. 7. 2 'EXe'-vxtt', certis et indubitatis argumentis alicui aliquid per- suadeo et demonstro acdissentientes refuto. (Schleus.) He w;l not only convict the world of sin, in not believing the Q-or the word more strictly means, which the Spirit would effect in the heart of the world, or rather in all hearts capable of receiving it, embraced three objects together, which are represented as co-extensive, and alike continuous?sin, righteousness, and judgment. The revealing to the soul of man the fulness of his sins, ? the revealing the completeness of the righteousness of God, ?the revealing the completeness of God's condemnation of evil, ?are set before us as a threefold work advancing together, and perfected together. As we know our Lord's righteousness, which was to be manifested in its completeness only in His union with the Father at His Ascension, ? because I go to the Father, and ye see Me no m