Dr. Hastings: "When Bourdaloue was probing the conscience of Louis XIV, applying to him the words of St. Paul and intending to paraphrase them: '_For the good which I would, I do not, but the evil which I would not, that I do,_' '_I find two men in me_'--the King interrupted the great preacher with the memorable exclamation: 'Ah, these two men, I know them well!' Bourdaloue answered: 'It is already something to _know_ them, Sire; but it is not enough,--one of the two must perish.' " And, in the genuine believer, the old does little by little die, and the new takes its place, as "_David waxed stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker_" (_2 Sam. 3:1_). As the Welsh minister found himself after awhile thinking and dreaming in English, so the language of Canaan becomes to the Christian his native and only speech.
_1 Thess. 5:23_--"_And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly._" Much of our modern literature ignores man's dependence upon God, and some of it seems distinctly intended to teach the opposite doctrine. Auerbach's "On the Heights," for example, teaches that man can make his own atonement; and "The Villa on the Rhine," by the same author, teaches that man can sanctify himself. The proper inscription for many modern French novels is: "Entertainment here for man and beast." The _Tendenznovelle_ of Germany has its imitators in the sceptical novels of England. And no doctrine in these novels is so common as the doctrine that man needs no Savior but himself.
_Phil. 1:6_--"_being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ_"; _3:15_--"_Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, this also shall God reveal unto you_"; _Col. 3:9, 10_--"_lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings, and have put on the new man, that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him_"; _cf._ _Acts 2:47_--"_those that were being saved_"; _1 Cor. 1:18_--"_unto us who are being saved_"; _2 Cor. 2:15_--"_in them that are being saved_"; _1 Thess. 2:12_--"_God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory._"