Daniel T. Bourdeau - The Eternal Gospel Church

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The subject of the Psalmist being the law of God, we see that he was afflicted that he might learn and keep God's law. God in love whips up his wayward children to their duty in this respect, as earthly parents correct their children that they may obey their requirements. p. 124, Para. 3, [HOLINESS]. 15. Self-examination is an important branch in sanctification. We examine ourselves that we may see our defects, which are so many deviations from the law. Therefore the law of God is indispensable in selfexamination. It is the grand mirror in which we should look to see our characters. "Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." James i, 25. p. 124, Para. 4, [HOLINESS]. 16. When the Bible shows that it is possible to overcome, and attain to holiness, we should understand that it is possible to keep God's law, that prescribes the way of holiness, and by which is the knowledge of sin, which is the great enemy that we overcome as we keep the law of God. Must we repent, believe, and be baptized, pray, etc., that we may overcome? The fact that these duties are obligatory upon us is strong evidence that the law exists, and should be kept. For what is repentance, but a turning away from sin? and what need is there of turning away from sin, if the law is not binding and should not be kept? Again, why should we believe on Christ for the remission of sin if there is no law? for where no law is, there is no transgression, Rom. iv, 15, and where there is no transgression, there is no need of remission. Paul uses baptism as an argument, to show that we should not continue in sin. Rom. vi. Baptism not only shows that Christ died and rose again, but that we are dead to sin, that we have been slain by the law, Rom. vii, 7-12, that we have repented of our sins, and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of the same. p. 125, Para. 1, [HOLINESS]. Whatever we do to overcome, establishes the law. All that is enjoined upon us in the Scriptures establishes the law. All that God does to help us overcome shows that the law is in force, and that God's great object in helping us, is to bring us back in obedience to his holy law. If there is no law, as some contend, then there is no room for repentance, faith, baptism, prayer, and the various other duties that
we have to perform to obtain help from God, and attain to holiness; then there is no room for the death and intercessions of Christ, and the healing fountain; for there is no need of grace, no occasion for the death and intercessions of Christ, nothing to heal; then Christ should not be our example, and we should not imitate what we have thought to be the loveliest character that ever dwelt among men! Then away with the Christian graces, and the fruit of the Spirit; men may think, act, and speak as they please; they may let their appetites and passions have full sway, and usurp the authority of enlightened reason; they may cherish idleness, effeminacy and uncleanness as virtues, and violate the laws of their beings; they may lavish their best affections on trifles, and keep their weakest affections for their Creator! they may speak of, and address their Maker irreverently, and curse their fellow creatures made in the image of God; in other words, they may with unbounded liberty and congratulation break any or all of God's commandments! Then let all the messengers of the cross hush their voices in silence, on those topics which have engrossed their minds, and led them to labor and suffer in vain, and give up their commission, confessing their error; let them cease to beseech the sinner with accents of pity to be reconciled to God, and flee from wrath to come; and let all who believe in the gospel of Christ act accordingly; let the Holy Spirit and good angels cease to act their part in the so-called sanctification of men, and return to the courts above, confessing that they have learned a better way; and let Satan and the wicked rejoice; for there is no law, no such a thing as sin, and no necessity for sanctification and salvation. p. 125, Para. 2, [HOLINESS]. This is by no means our belief, yet it shows the inconsistency of those who, while they lay much stress on faith, repentance, and other Christian duties, and extol Christ, the Christian graces, and sanctification, oppose the law of God. Do our Antinomian friends extol faith, repentance, sanctification, etc.? This is all right. But by so doing they virtually extol the law of God. Sanctification stands or falls with the law of God. p. 126, Para. 1, [HOLINESS]. We are now prepared to see the force of the following conclusion from the wise man: "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring
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Daniel T. Bourdeau: 1835-1905 p. 1,
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into subjection to the will of God,
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Christ, let us go on to perfection;
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as holy, sanctified, perfect, and s
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When John the Baptist was preaching
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worship of the beast (papacy). By t
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Again, those parts which should be
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By it we appropriate to ourselves t
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can feast, and of which they can in
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future state given by Mahomet; also
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on just and reasonable motives, on
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in God's word? Consistent persons a
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doctrine. This was the case with an
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e dearer to us than life, and we sh
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works cannot be wrought and brought
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the senses; and Christians cannot k
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But we are to cleanse ourselves fro
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As God does nothing in vain, it is
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Para. 3, [HOLINESS]. The great apos
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the summer, and gathereth her food
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And first, the tongue is rightly us
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