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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN \n◊◊◊ \nThe real difference between the true and the [merely] professing \nChristian seems to be given us in the text [from Scripture]\, – \n“If there be a willing \nmind\, it is accepted.” St Paul is speaking of almsgiving; but what he says seems \nto apply generally. He is laying out a principle\, which applies of course in many \ndistinct cases\, though he uses it with reference to one in particular. An honest\, \nunaffected desire of doing right is the test of God’s true servants. \nOn the other hand\, a double mind\, a pursuing other ends besides the \ntruth\, and in consequence an inconsistency in conduct\, and a half- \nconsciousness…of inconsistency\, and a feeling of the necessity of defending \noneself to oneself\, and to God\, and to the world; in a word\, hypocrisy; these are \nthe signs of the merely professed Christian. \nFor instance: the two great Christian graces are faith and love. Now\, how \nare these characterized in Scripture? By their being honest or single-minded. \nThus St Paul\, in one place\, speaks of “the end of the commandment being love;” \nwhat love? – \n“love out of a pure heart\,” he proceeds\, “and of a good conscience; \n” and still further\, “and of faith unfeigned;” or\, as it may be more literally \ntranslated\, “unhypocritical faith\,” for so the word means in Greek. \nIn like manner\, St Peter speaks of Christians “having purified their souls \nin obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unhypocritical love of the \nbrethren.” And in like manner\, St James speaks of “the wisdom that is from \nabove\, being first pure – without partiality\, and without hypocrisy.” \nSurely it is very remarkable that three Apostles\, writing on different \nsubjects and occasions\, should each of them thus speak about faith or love as \nwithout hypocrisy. A true Christian\, then\, may almost be defined as one who \nhas a ruling sense of God’s presence within him. As none but justified persons \nhave that privilege\, so none but the justified have that practical perception of it. \nA true Christian\, or one who is in a state of acceptance with God\, is he \nwho\, in such a sense\, has faith in Him\, as to live in the thought that He is present \nwith him\, present not externally\, not in nature merely\, or in providence\, but in \nhis innermost heart\, or in his conscience. A man is justified whose conscience is \nilluminated by God\, so that he habitually realizes that all his thoughts\, all the \nfirst springs of his moral life\, all his motives and his wishes\, are open to \nAlmighty God. \nNot as if he was not aware that there is very much in him impure and \ncorrupt\, but he wishes that all that is in him should be bare to God. He believes \nthat it is so\, and he even joys to think that it is so\, in spite of his fear and shame \nat its being so. He alone admits Christ into the shrine of his heart; whereas \nothers wish in some way or other\, to be by themselves\, to have a home\, a \nchamber\, a self where God is not. [The true Christian] enthrones the Son of God \nin his conscience\, refers to Him as a sovereign authority\, and uses no reasoning \nwith Him. He does not reason\, but he says\, “You\, God\, see me.”
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