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in The Gospel Messenger (Nov. 1888)

AUTHOR:

Dudley, E. S.

THE CONVERSION OF THE SOUL from love and practice of sin to the love and practice of holiness, necessarily follows the regeneration of the soul and the circumcision of the heart made without hands, the enlightening of the eye of understanding, the renewal of the spirit of the mind, and the reconciliation of the conscience toward God. As Peter says: “The like figure, whereunto even baptism doth also now save us, (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but, the answer of a good conscience toward God) by the resurrection of Jesus”—I Peter iii. 21; and again: “You that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreproveable in his sight;” (Col. i. 21, 22) and Paul to the Hebrews, says, “If the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God;” (Heb. ix. 13, 14) read the connection.

I understand; for myself, that the soul of a human being is the embodiment of all the faculties of the inner man, whether of heart, mind, understanding, spirit and conscience as before hinted or spoken of, and when I speak of the soul being born again, or regenerated in the time work of the Spirit, all these are included, whilst the body remains for the time unquickened and dead because of sin, and the law of sin still in his fleshly members, the tendency of which is to bring forth fruit unto death; nevertheless, the bodies of the saints are reckoned to be the members of Christ, (I. Cor. vi. 15) and the temples of the Holy Ghost, (19th v.) as redeemed by the blood of Christ, and brought in subjection to the law of Christ.