Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Spiritual enlightenment reveals Jesus Christ as the Mediator, and creates a desire to be a partaker of Jesus’ atoning merits, etc. and to trust all things to him, because God says, commands and promises so in his word. It is easy to say these things, and it should go on easily, but the old nature is still within. At times it appears to be almost dead.
Occasionally, in the beginning of conversion, the power of sin seems to be broken, because there is a great earnestness to be reconciled with God, to be a partaker of Christ, to have a godly life, but when that earnestness weakens, the old nature gains ground, captures that small spiritual life, dominates it, and breaks through to commit several inward and also outward sins, in secret, but sometimes it happens that he also shows himself acting sinfully outwardly. Even as if there were no grace at all.
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Occasionally, in the beginning of conversion, the power of sin seems to be broken, because there is a great earnestness to be reconciled with God, to be a partaker of Christ, to have a godly life, but when that earnestness weakens, the old nature gains ground, captures that small spiritual life, dominates it, and breaks through to commit several inward and also outward sins, in secret, but sometimes it happens that he also shows himself acting sinfully outwardly. Even as if there were no grace at all.
For the reference, see:
Wilhelmus à Brakel on the old nature impeding the new pilgrim’s progress
Spiritual enlightenment reveals Jesus Christ as the Mediator, and creates a desire to be a partaker of Jesus’ atoning merits, etc. and to trust all things to him, because God says, commands and pro…
reformedcovenanter.wordpress.com
