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The marks of the new birth. So is every one that is born of
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the spirit. John three, verse eight. How is everyone that is born
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of the spirit, that is born again, born of God? What is
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meant by the being born again, the being born of God, or being
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born of the Spirit. What is implied in the being a son or a
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child of God? Or having this spirit of adoption? That these privileges,
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by the free mercy of God are ordinarily annexed to baptism, which is hence
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termed by our Lord in a preceding verse, the being born of water and
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of the Spirit. We know, but we would know what these privileges are.
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What is the new birth? Perhaps it is not needful to give a
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definition of this, seeing the Scripture gives none. But as the question is
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of the deepest concern to every child of man, since except the man be
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born again, born of the Spirit, he cannot see the Kingdom of God,
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I propose to lay down the marks of it in the plainest manner,
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just as I find them laid down in Scripture. The first of these and
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the foundation of all the rest, is faith. So, Saint Paul,
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ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus Galatians three,
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verse twenty six. So Saint John to them gave he power, exusion,
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right, or privilege. It might rather be translated to become the sons of
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God, even to them that believe on His name, which were born when
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they believe, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh,
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not by natural generation, nor of the will of man, like those children
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adopted by men, in whom no inward changes thereby wrought, but of God.
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John one, verse twelve and thirteen, and again in his General Epistle.
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Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God first John five,
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verse one. But it is not a barely notional or speculative faith that
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is here spoken of by the apostles. It is not a bare assent to
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this proposition Jesus is the Christ, nor indeed to all the propositions contained in
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our creed or in the Old and New Testaments. It is not merely an
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assent to any or all these credible things, as credible to say this were
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to say, which who could hear that the devils were born of God?
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For they have this faith. They trembling believe both that Jesus is the Christ
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and that all scripture, having been given by inspiration of God, is true
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as God is true. It is not only an assent to divine truth upon
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the testimony of God or upon the evidence of miracles. For they also heard
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the words of his mouth and knew him to be a faithful and true witness.
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They could not but receive the testimony he gave, both of himself and
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of the Father which sent him. They saw likewise the mighty works which he
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did, and thence believed that he came forth from God. Yet notwithstanding this
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faith, they are still reserved in chains of darkness onto the judgment of the
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Great day. For all this is no more than a dead faith. The
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true living Christian faith, which whosoever hath is born of God, is not
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only an assent an act of understanding, but a disposition which God hath wrought
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in his heart, a sure trust and confidence in God, that through the
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merits of Christ, his sins are forgiven and he reconciled to the favor of
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God. This implies that a man first renounce himself, that in order to
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be found in Christ, to be accepted through Him, he totally rejects all
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confidence in the flesh, that having nothing to pay, having no trust in
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his own works of righteousness of any kind, he comes to God as a
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lost, miserable, self destroyed, self condemned, undone, helpless sinner,
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as one whose mouth is utterly stopped, and who is altogether guilty before God.
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Such a sense of sin commonly called despair by those who speak evil of
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the things they know, not together with a full conviction such as no words
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can express, that of Christ. Only cometh our salvation, and an earnest
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desire of that salvation must precede a living faith, a trust in Him who
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for us paid our ransom by his death and fulfilled the law of his life.
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This faith, then, whereby we are born of God, is not
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only a belief of all the articles of our faith, but also a true
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confidence of the mercy of God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Immediate and constant
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fruit of this faith whereby we are born of God, a fruit which can
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in no wise be separated from it. No, not for an hour,
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is power over sin, power over outward sin of every kind, over every
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evil word and work. For wheresoever the blood of Christ is thus applied,
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it purgeth the conscience from dead works and over inward sin, for it purifieth
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the heart from every unholy desire, and temper this fruit of faith. Saint
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Paul has largely described in the sixth chapter of his Epistle to the Romans,
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how shall we saith, he who by faith are dead to sin, live
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any longer? Therein our old man is crucified with Christ, that the body
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of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Likewise,
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reckon yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus
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Christ, our Lord. Let not sin, therefore reign even in your mortal
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body, but yield yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead,
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For sin shall not have dominion over you. God be thanked that ye
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were the servants of sin, but being made free. The plain meaning is
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God be thanked that though ye were, in time pass the servants of sin,
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yet now being free from sin, you are become the servants of righteousness.
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The same invaluable privilege of the sons of God is as strongly asserted by
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Saint John, particularly with regard to the former branch of it, namely power
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over outward sin. After he had been crying out as one astonished at the
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depth of the richest of the goodness of God. Behold what manner of love
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the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God
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beloved. Now are we the sons of God? And it doth not yet
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appear what we shall be. But we know that when he shall appear,
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we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
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First John, chapter three, Verse one. He soon adds, whosoever is
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born of God doth not commit sin, for his seed remaineth in him,
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and he cannot sin because he is born of God. First John three nine.
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But some men will say, true, whosoever is born of God doth
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not commit sin habitually habitually? Whence is that I read it? Not?
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It is not written in the book? God plainly saith he doth not commit
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sin? And thou addest habitually. Who art thou that mendest theoricles of God
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that addest to the words of this book? Beware, I beseech thee lest
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God add to thee all the plagues that are written therein, especially when the
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comet thou addest is such as quite swallows up the text, so that by
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this methodeia Plain's artful method of deceiving the precious promise is utterly lost. By
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this chipia anthropon tricking and shuffling of men, the word of God is made
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of none effect. Oh beware thou that dost takest from the words of this
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book, that taking away the whole meaning and spirit from them, leavest only
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what may indeed be termed a dead letter. Lest God take away thy part
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out of the Book of Life, suffer we the apostle to interpret his own
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words by the whole tenor of his discourse. In the fifth verse of this
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chapter, he had said, ye know that he Christ was manifested to take
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away our sins, and in him is no sin. What is the inference
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he draws from this? Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not, whosoever sinneth hath
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not seen him, neither know him. First John three, verse six.
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To his enforcement of this important doctrine, he premises a highly necessary caution,
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little children, Let no man deceive you First John three, verse seven.
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For many will endeavor so to do to persuade you that you may be unrighteous,
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that you may commit sin and yet be children of God. He that
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doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. He that committeth sin
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is of the devil, For the devil sinneth. From the beginning, then
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follows, whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin, for his seed
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remaineth in him, and he cannot sin because he is born of God.
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In this as the apostle, the children of God are manifest, and the
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children of the devil. By this plain mark the committing or not committing sin?
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Are they distinguished from each other? To the same effect? Are these
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those words in his fifth chapter We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth
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not. But he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked
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one toucheth him not First John three, verse eighteen. Another fruit of this
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living faith is peace. For being justified by faith, having all our sins
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blotted out, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ Romans five,
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verse one. This indeed our Lord himself, the night before his death
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solemnly bequeathed to all his followers peace saith. He I leave with you,
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you who believe in God and believe also in me. My peace I give
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unto you, not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let
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not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid John fourteen, verse
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twenty seven. And again these things have I spoken on to you, that
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in me ye might have peace. John sixteen thirty three. This is that
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peace of God which passeth all understanding, that serenity of soul, which it
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hath not entered into the heart of a natural man to conceive, and which
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it is not possible for even the spiritual man to utter. And it is
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a peace which all the powers of earth and hell are unable to take from
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him. Waves and storms beat upon it, but they shake it not,
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for it is founded upon a rock. It keepeth the hearts and minds of
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the children of God at all times and in all places, whether they are
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in ease or in pain, in sickness or health, in abundance or want,
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they are happy in God in every state. They have learned to be
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content, yea to give thanks unto God through Christ Jesus, being well assured
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that whatsoever is is best, because it is His will concerning them, so
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that in all the vicissitudes of life their heart standeth fast believing in the Lord.
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A second scriptural mark of those who are born of God is hope.
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Thus, Saint Peter, speaking to all the children of God who were then
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scattered abroad, saith, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord,
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Jesus Christ, which, according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten us again
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onto a lively hope First Peter one three alpet Zossan. A lively or living
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hope, saith the apostle, because there is also a dead hope as well
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as a dead faith, a hope which is not from God but from the
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enemy of God and Man, as evidently appears by its fruit. For as
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it is the offspring of pride, so it is the parent of every evil
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word and work. Whereas every man that hath in him this living hope is
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holy, as he that calleth him is holy. Every man that can truly
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say to his brethren in Christ, Beloved, Now are we the sons of
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God, And we shall see Him as he is purifieth himself, even as
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he is pure. This hope implies, first the testimony of our own spirit
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are conscience, that we walk in simplicity and godly sincerity. Second, the
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testimony of the Spirit of God bearing witness with or to our spirit, that
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we are the children of God. And if children then heirs heirs of God
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and joint errors with Christ. Let us well observe what is here taught us
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by God himself, touching this glorious privilege of His children. Who is it
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that is here said to bear witness? Not our spirit only, but another,
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even the spirit of God. He it is who beareth witness with our
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spirit? What is it he beareth witness of that we are the children of
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God? And if children, then errs heirs of God and joint errors with
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Christ. Romans eight, verses sixteen and Night seventeen. If so be that
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we suffer with Him, if we deny ourselves, if we take up our
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cross daily, if we cheerfully, endure persecution, or reproach for His sake,
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that we may also be glorified together. And in whom doth the Spirit
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of God bear this witness? In all who are the children of God?
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By this very argument does the apostle prove in the preceding verses that they are
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soul as many saith he as are led by the Spirit of God. They
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are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage
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again to fear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we
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cry Abbah Father. It follows the spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that
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we are the children of God. Chapter eight, verses fourteen to sixteen.
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The variation of the phrase in the fifteenth verse is worthy of our observation.
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Ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba Father, He
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as many as are the sons of God, have in virtue of your sonship,
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receive that self same spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba Father.
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We the apostles, prophets, teachers. For so the word may not improperly
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be understood. We through whom you have believed, the ministers of Christ and
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stewards of the mysteries of God. As we and you have one Lord,
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so we have one spirit. As we have one faith, so we have
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one hope. Also we and you are sealed with one spirit of promise,
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the earnest of your and of our inheritance, the same spirit bearing witness with
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your and with our spirit, that we are the children of God. Roman
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eighth, verses fourteen to sixteen. And thus is the scripture fulfilled. Blessed
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are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. For it is easy
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to believe that though sorrow may precede this witness of God's Spirit with our spirit,
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indeed must in some degree while we grown under fear in a sense of
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the wrath of God abiding on us. Yet as soon as any man feeleth
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it in himself, his sorrow is turned into joy, whatsoever his pain may
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have been before. Yet as soon as that our is come, he remembereth
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the anguish no more for joy, that he is born of God. It
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may be many of you have now sorrow because you are aliens from the commonwealth
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of Israel, because you are conscious to yourself that you have not the spirit,
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that you are without hope and without God in the world. But when
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the comforter is come, then your heart shall be rejoice. Yea, your
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joy shall be full, and that joy no man taketh from you. John
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sixteen, verse twenty two. We joy in God. Will you see through
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our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement, by
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whom we have access into this grace, this state of grace of favor,
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or a reconciliation with God. Wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the
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glory of God. Romans, chapter five, Verse two, Ye, saith,
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Saint Peter, whom God hath begotten again onto a lively hope, are
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kept by the power of God, onto salvation. Wherein you greatly rejoice,
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though now for a season if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold
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temptations, that the trial of your faith may be found onto praise and honor
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and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ, in whom though now you see
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him not, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. First Peter
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one, verse five. Unspeakable. Indeed, it is not for the tongue
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of man to describe this joy. In the Holy ghost. It is the
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hidden manna, which no man knoweth, save he that receiveth it. But
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this we know. It not only remains, but overflows. In the depth
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of affliction. Are the consolations of God small with his children when all earthly
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comforts fail. Not so, but when sufferings most abound, the consolations of
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His Spirit do much more abound, insomuch that the sons of God laugh at
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destruction when it cometh at want, pain, hell and the grave, as
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knowing him who hath the keys of death and hell, and will shortly cast
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them into the bottomless pit, as hearing even now the great voice out of
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heaven saying, behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men, and He
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will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. And God himself
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shall be with them and be their God. And God shall wipe away all
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tears from their eyes. And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow
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nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, For the former things
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are past a way. Revelations twenty one, verse three and four. A
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third scriptural mark of those who are born of God, and the greatest of
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all is love, even the love of God, shed abroad in their hearts
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by the Holy Ghost, which is given on to them Romans five, verse
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five. Because they are sons, God hath sent forth the spirit of His
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Son in their hearts, crying abba Father, Galatians four, verse six.
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By this spirit, continually looking up to God as they're reconciled and loving Father,
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they cry to Him for their daily bread, for all things needful,
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whether for their souls or bodies. They continually pour out their hearts before him,
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knowing they have the petitions which they ask of him. First John five,
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verse fifteen. Their delight is in him. He is the joy of
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their heart, their shield, and their exceeding great reward. Their desire of
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their soul is toward him. It is their meat and drink to do his
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will. And they are satisfied as with marrow and fatness, while their mouth
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praiseth Him with joyful lips Psalm sixty three, verse five. And in this
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sense also everyone who loveth Him that beget loveth him that is begotten of him.
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First John five, verse one. His spirit rejoiceth in God his Savior.
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He loveth the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. He is so joined onto
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the Lord as to be one spirit. His soul hangeth upon him and chooseth
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him as altogether lovely. The chief is among ten thousand. He knoweth he
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feeleth what that means. My beloved is mine, and I am his song
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of Solomon Chapter two, verse sixteen. Thou art fairer than the children of
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men. Full of grace are thy lips, because God hath anointed thee forever
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Psalm forty five, verse two. The necessary very fruit of this love of
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God is the love of our neighbor, of every soul, which God hath
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made, not accepting our enemies, not accepting those who are now despitefully using
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and persecuting us, a love whereby we love every man as ourselves, as
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we love our own souls. Nay, our Lord has expressed it still more
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strongly, teaching us to love one another, even as He hath loved us.
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Accordingly, the commandment written in the hearts of all those that love God
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is no other than this. As I have loved you, so love ye
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one another. Now herein perceive we the love of God in that He laid
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down his life for us First John three, verse sixteen. We ought,
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then, as the apostle justly infers, to lay down our lives for the
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brethren. If we feel ourselves ready to do this, then do we truly
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love our neighbor. Then we know that we have passed from death onto life,
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because we thus love the brethren. First John three, verse fourteen.
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Hereby know we that we are born of God, that we dwell in Him
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and he in us, because He hath given us of his loving spirit.
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First John, chapter four, verse thirteen. For love is of God,
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and everyone that thus loveth is born of God and knoweth God. First John
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four, verse seven. But some may possibly ask, does not the apostle
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say, this is the love of God that we keep his commandments First John
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five, verse three. Yea. And this is the love of our neighbor,
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also in the same sense as it is the love of God. But
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what would you infer from hence? That the keeping the outward commandments is all
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that is implied in loving God with all your heart, with all your mind
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and soul and strength, and in loving your neighbor as yourself. That the
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love of God is not an affection of the soul, but merely an outward
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service, And that the love of our our neighbors is not a disposition of
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heart, but barely a course of outward works. To mention so wild an
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interpretation of the Apostle's words is sufficiently to confute it. The plain and disputable
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meaning of that text is this is the sign of a proof of the love
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of God, of our keeping the first and great commandment, to keep the
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rest of His commandments for true love, if it be once shed abroad in
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our heart, will constrain us so to do, since whosoever loves God with
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all his heart cannot but serve him with all his strength. A second fruit
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then of the love of God, so far as it can be distinguished from
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it, is universal obedience to Him we love, and conformity to His will,
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obedience to all the commandments of God, internal and external, obedience of
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the heart and of the life, in every temper and in all manner of
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conversation. And one of the tempers most obviously implied herein is the being zealous
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of good works, the hungering and thirsting to do good in every possible kind
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unto all men, the rejoicing to spend and be spent for them, for
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every child of man, not looking for any recompense in this world, but
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only in the resurrection of the Just. Thus have I plainly laid down those
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marks of the new Birth, which I find laid down in scripture. Thus
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doth God himself answer that weighty question, what is it to be born of
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God? Such if the appeal be made to the oracles of God, is
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everyone that is born of the Spirit. This it is in the judgment of
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the Spirit of God, to be a son or a child of God.
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It is so to believe in God through Christ, as not to commit sin,
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and to enjoy at all times and in all places, that peace of
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God which passeth all understanding. It is so to hope in God through the
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Son of His Love, as to have not only the testimony of a good
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conscience, but also the Spirit of God, bearing witnesses with your spirits,
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that ye are the children of God, whence cannot but spring the rejoicing in
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Him through whom you have received the atonement. It is so to love God,
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who hath thus loved you as you never did love any creature, so
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that ye are constrained to love all men as yourselves, with a love not
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only ever burning in your hearts, but flaming out in all your actions and
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conversations, and making your whole life one labor of love, one continued obedience
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to those commands. Be Ye merciful as God is merciful. Be Ye holy,
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as I the Lord am holy. Be Ye perfect as your Father,
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which is in Heaven is perfect. Who then are ye that are thus born
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of God? Ye know the things which are given to you of God.
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Ye well know that ye are the children of God, and can assure your
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hearts before him, and every one of you who has observed these words cannot
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but feel and know of a truth. Whether at this hour answer to God
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and not to man. You are thus a child of God or no.
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The question is not what you was made and baptism do not evade. But
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what you are now is the spirit of adoption. Now in your heart,
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to your own heart, let the appeal be made. I ask not whether
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you was born of water and of the spirit, But are you now the
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temple of the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in you? I allow you as circumcised
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with the circumcision of Christ, as Saint Paul emphatically terms baptism. But does
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the spirit of Christ and of Glory now rest upon you? Else your circumcision
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is become uncircumcision. Say not, then in your heart I was once baptized.
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Therefore I am now a child of God. Alas that consequence will by
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no means whole. How many are the baptized gluttons and drunkards, the baptized
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liars and common swearers, the baptized railers and evil speakers, the baptized warmongers
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extortioners. What think you are these now the children of God. Verily I
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say unto you, whos whoever you are, unto whom any one of the
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preceding characters belongs, Ye are of your father, the devil, and the
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works of your father, ye do unto you. I call in the name
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of him whom you crucify afresh, and in his words to your circumcised predecessors,
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Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers. How can ye escape the damnation
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of hell? How indeed, except ye be born again? For ye are
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now dead in trespasses and sins. To say then that ye cannot be born
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again, that there is no new birth but in baptism, is to seal
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you all under damnation, to consign you to hell without help, without hope.
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And perhaps some may think this just and right. In their zeal for
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the Lord of hosts. They may say, yea cut off the sinners,
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the Amalekites. Let those Gibeonites be utterly destroyed. They deserve no less,
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no nor I nor you. Mine, and your desert as well as theirs,
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is hell. And it is Mayor of mercy, free undeserved mercy,
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that we are not now in unquestionable fire. You will say, but we
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are washed. We were born again of water and of the spirit. So
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were they This therefore hinders not at all, but that ye may now be
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even as they know ye not that what is highly esteemed of men is an
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abomination in the sight of God. Come forth, ye saints of the world,
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ye that are honored of men, And see who will cast the first
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stone at them? At these wretches not fit to live upon the earth,
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these common harlots, adulterers, murderers. Only learn ye first what that meaneth
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He that hateth his brother is a murderer. First John three, verse fifteen.
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He that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with
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her already in his way heart Matthew five, verse twenty eight. Ye adulterers
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and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with
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God. James, Chapter four, verse four. Verily, verily, I
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say unto you, ye also must be born again. Except ye also be
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born again, ye cannot see the Kingdom of God. Lean no more on
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the staff of that broken reed that you were born again in baptism. Who
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denies that ye were then made children of God and heirs of the Kingdom of
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heaven. But notwithstanding this, ye are now children of the devil. Therefore
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you must be born again. And let not Satan put it into your heart
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to cavil at the word. When the thing is clear, ye have heard.
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What are the marks of the children of God? All ye who have
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them not on your souls, baptized or unbaptized, must needs receive them,
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or without doubt ye will perish everlastingly. And if ye have been baptized,
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your only hope is this, that those who were made the children of God
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by baptism, but are now the children of the devil, may yet again
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receive power to become the sons of God, that they may receive again what
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they have lost, even the spirit of adoption, crying in their hearts.
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Abba Father, Amen, Lord Jesus. May everyone who prepareth his heart yet
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again to seek Thy face receive again that spirit of adoption and cry out,
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Abba Father. Let him now again have power so to believe in Thy name,
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as to become a child of God, as to know and feel he
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hath redemption in Thy blood, even the forgiveness of sins, and that he
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cannot commit sin because he is born of God. Let him be now begotten
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again unto a living hope, so as to purify himself, as thou art
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pure, and because he is a son, Let the spirit of love and
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of glory rest upon him, cleansing him from all filthiness of flesh and spirit,
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and teaching him to perfect holiness in the fear of God. End of
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Section eighteen.