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| Continuation of the Subject of Mortification; Dignity of Persons Consecrated to God.
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IX.—Continuation of the Subject of Mortification; Dignity of
Persons Consecrated to God.
He in whomsoever the Spirit of God is, is in
accord with the will of the Spirit of God; and, because he is in accord
with the Spirit of God, therefore does he mortify the deeds of the body
and live unto God, “treading down and subjugating the body and
keeping it under; so that, while preaching to others,” he may be
a beautiful example and pattern to believers, and may spend his life in
works which are worthy of the Holy Spirit, so that he may “not be
cast away,”372
but may be
approved before God and before men. For in “the man who is
of God,”373
with him I
say there is nothing of the mind of the flesh; and especially in
virgins of either sex; but the fruits of all of them are
“the fruits of the Spirit”374
and of life, and they are truly the city of God, and the houses and
temples in which God abides and dwells, and among which He walks, as in
the holy city of heaven. For in this “do ye appear to the
world as lights, in that ye give heed to the Word of
life,”375
and thus ye are
in truth the praise, and the boast, and the crown of rejoicing, and the
delight of good servants in our Lord Jesus Christ. For all who
see you will “acknowledge that ye are the seed which the Lord
hath blessed;”376
in very deed a
seed honourable and holy, and “a priestly kingdom, a holy people,
the people of the inheritance,”377
the heirs
of the promises of God; of things which do not decay, nor
wither; of “that which eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard,
and which hath not come up into the heart of man; of that which God
hath prepared for those who love Him and keep His
commandments.”378
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