Calvary
without--that is, they must seek for justification by his obedience
without--to the grave without, and to his ascension and intercession
in heaven without; and this must be done through the operation of
his own Holy Spirit that he has promised shall show these things
unto them, being given within them for that purpose. Now the Spirit
of Christ, that leads also; but whither? It leads to Christ without.
What a poor argument is this to say, that "because the Spirit of
Christ doth convince of sin, therefore whatsoever doth convince of
sin must needs be the Spirit of Christ:" as much as to say, because
the saints are called the light of the world, therefore the saints
are the Saviour of the world, seeing Christ also doth call himself
the light of the world; or because the moon hath or is light,
therefore the moon is the sun.
X. CONVICTION OF SIN.
WHEN man is taken and laid under the day of God's power, when Christ
is opening his ear to discipline, and speaking to him that his heart
may receive instruction, many times that poor man is as if the devil
had found him, and not God. How frenzily he imagines; how crossly he
thinks; how ungainly he carries it under convictions, counsels, and
his present apprehension of things! I know some are more powerfully
dealt withal, and more strongly bound at first by the word; but
others more in an ordinary manner, that the flesh and reason may be
seen to the glory of Christ.
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