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The Passion of the Christian

What folly for scholars to run hither and thither in an effort to consult the best minds upon the subject of the gospel. All of this might have been known to be mere delusion and lost labor, had these men but remembered or regarded even one saying either of Christ or His apostles concerning the Holy Spirit and His operations. “The things of God,” says Paul, “knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.” Is not this decisive upon the matter? Is not this proof enough that not human learning, nor anything in man, except the Spirit of God dwelling and working in him, can make him know the reality of the new creation in which “All things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ”? Whoever is wholly given up to a denial of self that he might take up the cross and follow Christ, has the will and mind of Christ. To this man the world, death, and hell are overcome in him as they were overcome in Christ. To him Christ has become the resurrection and the life. And he knows with Paul that all other knowledge will be cast away as dung when the risen Christ enters into the hearts of men to set up His heavenly kingdom there.

William Law, “The Power of the Spirit,” edited by Dave Hunt, Christian Literature Crusade, Fort Washington, PA, 1971, p. 48-49