REGENERATION and
EFFECTUAL CALLING"Regeneration is a change wrought by the power of the Holy Spirit, in the understanding, will and affections of a sinner; which is the commencement of a new kind of life, and which gives another direction to his judgment, desires, pursuits, and conduct."
The necessity, source, effects, and end of regeneration!
The difference between the godly & the ungodly
Allured by the magnetic power of His love!
I am not what I once used to be!
The imperativeness of the new birth
Idling life away like an idiot or a madman!
It is radical, revolutionary, lasting
Oh, how changed a man he is now
All of his views, desires, and pursuits, become changed
Poor, naked, penniless, worthless!
A single word was sufficient to subdue the stoutest heart!
He conquers the stoutest hearts, and cleanses the foulest spiritual leper!
Old Adam, put in a better dress
That miracle of Divine grace wrought in the soul
God can take the most sin-soiled soul
The almighty power of God is exerted!
There must be a Divine alteration of disposition
By its own powerful and holy instinct
Something peculiar, distinct, and different
The expulsive power of a new affection
It is radical, revolutionary, lasting!
Powerful, supernatural, irresistible, mighty, overwhelming, constraining!
Study the 'two pictures' together — to see what grace can do for a man!
Godly parents cannot convert their children
I belong to the church; I suppose I am a Christian
Look at that cold creeping worm!
The lamentation of a new-born soul
A lost, miserable and hateful sinner!
His secret power and influence
Such I may have been — but for free and sovereign grace!
Reader! marvel not that you must be born again!
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