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more vitally needed? "The same anointing teacheth you of all things," writes John. Julius Müller, with all his theological learning, seems to have needed a kind of spiritual laying on of hands, which he received from contact with the pious. Tholuck, to qualify him to write his great work, "The Doctrine of Sin"; and not less did D'Au bigné require that deeper experience and illumi nation referred to on another page, to fit him to produce the History of the Reformation — that historic exposition of the doctrine of justification by faith. There are things of God hidden in the Scriptures, diffused through human history, and inwrought with religious experience, which no intellectual acumen, however subtle, can grasp. Therefore for every kind and quality of service we need the Paraclete. “For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of a man which is in him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have re ceived not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God."

ACCESS AND SEPARATION.

"THE first duty is to attach oneself; detachment comes afterwards. The chrysalis covering in which the butterfly was prisoned only breaks and falls away when the insect's wings have grown-it is by opening that these burst their melancholy integuments. We only begin to detach ourselves from the world when we have learned to know something of a better. Till then we are but capable of disappointment and weariness, which are not detachment.". Alexander Vinet.

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ACCESS AND SEPARATION.

HERE are two Advocates appointed to us,

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for the maintenance of our two-fold lifeChrist on the throne, and the Spirit in our hearts. "If any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous"* is the declaration of Scripture concerning the one; "I will pray the Father and he shall give you another Advocate that he may abide with you forever even the Spirit of Truth" is the promise of Christ concerning the other. The work of Christ for us is still going on in heaven where "he ever liveth to make intercession." And this last saying, from the Epistle to the Hebrews, describes exactly what he is now doing for us above, viz. living for us, and interceeding for us.

Does not the scripture declare that being "reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life?" This refers to His risen and glorified life.

*1 John 2: 1. ↑ John 14: 16, (Marginal R. V.)

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Our being is so linked with His, our salvation and peace are so entirely centered in His person that for Christ to live is for us to live. Hence His blessed saying, when referring to His departure out of the world; "Because I live ye shall live also.” * And hence also that other saying of Scripture addressed to those who are dead and risen with Christ. "Your life is hid with Christ in God." As by the death of Christ on the cross our sins were put away, our condemnation removed and our justification perfectly accomplished, so now by the life of Christ upon the throne our spiritual growth is maintained and the work of our sanctification carried on. Meanwhile as our great High Priest within the veil, He is interceding for us; and His intercession is but the reiteration of His atonement, a perpetual appeal to the merit of His sacrifice and death. How significant, that He who on the cross was "the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world" is now "in the midst of the throne a Lamb standing as though it had been slain." † Amazing words, which would tell us that the marks of His passion, the memorials of His vicarious death are still visible on His person

† Rov. g; 6, R. V.

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