emphasis added.
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only when He is glorifi ed in our hearts as King that the Holy Spirit enters and abides.43
More recently, Oswald T. Allis, writing on the two covenants, said:
By the covenant of grace the Chris tian is not off ered faith as an easy substitute for works of righ teous ness. It off ers him an unmerited and unearned righ teous ness, the righ teous ness of Christ received by faith which challenges him and demands that he walk worthy of his high calling that he learn to say as Paul did, "the love of Christ constraineth us." Th e fact that he is not under the law as a basis of works-salvation does not set before the Chris tian a lower standard than that of the Mosaic law, but a far higher one. . . . When Jesus gave His disciples a new commandment, "As I have loved you that ye also love one another," He set them a standard of obedience that surpassed the commandment of the Law, "Th ou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Little wonder then that Paul answers the question, "Do we then make void the law through faith?" with the emphatic words, "God forbid: yea, we establish the law."44
Under the heading "Antinomianism," Allis added:
Th e whole teaching of the New Testament is that justifi cation has as its objective sanctifi cation, redemption from all iniquity. A faith which does not bring forth fruit unto righ teous ness is not a living faith. Th e bandit who comes secretly to the priest for confession and absolution only that he may with a quieted conscience return to his life of thievery and violence is like the Jews of old who made the Temple "a den of robbers," a refuge against the consequences of their evil deeds.45
Other recent writers have expressed shock at what they see plainly as spreading antinomianism in the contemporary church. A. W. Pink, for example, recognized the failure of modern evangelism as early as 1937. He wrote:
Th e terms of Christ's salvation are erroneously stated by the present-day evangelist. With very rare exceptions he tells his hearers that salvation is by grace and is received as a free gift ; that Christ has done everything for the sinner, and nothing remains except for him to "believe" — to trust in
43. W. H. Griffi th Th omas, St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, n.d.), 371, emphasis added.
44. Oswald T. Allis, "Th e Covenant of Works," in Carl F. H. Henry, ed., Basic Chris tian Doctrines (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1962), 98.
45. Ibid., 99.