#48 The Power of Repentance
[Pryr-1.2-48] But does this Man have any Ground for Pride, or a high Opinion of himself, because of his Share in Restoring Hand? Can we by the same not, think by our own Activity, that we are responsible for our salvation like this Man with his outstretched his Hand? and that the Work of Christ was superfluous? No. While we can only do living Works of Christ when we are born again, it is because we are able to say with the Apostle, "This is not I, but the Christ that lives in me." But to return, and further show, how the Soul that feels the Call of God to Repentance, this stirring of the Divine Power in the soul may have its full Effect, and bring forth the Birth of the new Man in Christ Jesus because it is the Seed of the Divine Nature within us, but it can only grow by its own Strength and Union with God because, and this is important to remember, this Seed is Divine, and therefore can grow from nothing but Divi...