d God," even your sanctification and. complete redemption. e Let us all consider that, "where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty," liberty from the chains of ignorance, liberty from the terrors of guilt, liberty from the slavery of sin, and liberty from the bondage of corruption. But they who quench the Spirit, put out, as far as it lies in them, the light of heaven; they continue the servants of sin, and cut themselves off from the only means of obtaining eternal life. For such unhappy persons "is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever." "Be not ye therefore," my brethren, "partakers with them. And if ye were sometimes darkness, yet now be ye light in the Lord, and walk as children of light. For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth: proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them."s We may reflect for our comfort that "there is no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after Rom. xii. 2. 2 Cor iii. 17. Jude 13. Ephes. v. 7-11. the Spirit." "For they that are after the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit, do mind the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." Now your h may "the very God of peace sanctify you wholly and I pray God whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." |