...living eflence, within and without refembling itfelf, the image of God, muft be created, born, " not of the will of the flefh, nor of the will of " man, but of God." CHAP. XXVIII. The Effects of the Imagination on the Human Form. TT is equally true and incomprehenfible,...

...beloved difciple tells us, to them .gave he power to become the fons of God, which are born not of blood, nor of the will of the flefh, nor of the will of man, but of God.f That is, who are not children of God after the fafhions, prefcriptions, and traditions of...

...grace. Hence every believer, who receives power to become a fon of God, is faid to be " born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flefh, . nor of the will of man, but of God," John, i. 1 2. 13. So that the Lord has the fame right to the new creature, . which he has to all by their firft...

...new nature, is confidered as a birth or creation from above ; John i. 13. " Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the, " flefh, nor of the will of man, but of God." It appears plainly, from many exprefs declarations of fcripture, from the power neceflary...

...declare his generation?" make you of the number of his children, and of that race " who are born not of blood, nor of the will of the flefh, nor of the will of man, but of God !" Thefe fhall be reckoned to the Son of man for a generation, and be named after him. Thefe...

...fcriptural account of the doctrine of the new birth. " As many as believed on him, were born, notof "blood, nor of the will of the flefh, nor of the will of man, but of "God." The worfl of tinners were fome of you, "but ye are "wafhed, ye are fanctifitcl, ye are juftified,...

...8$ " fons of God, even to them that believe on his " name : 'which were born, not of blood, nor cf " the will of the flefh, nor of the will of man, but " of God." Rom. viii. 30.— " Whom he called," them he aifo juflified ; and whom he juftifiedj " them...

...his own, and his own receiv . ed him not. even to them who believe on his name : who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flefh, nor of the will of man, but of God. LESSON IV. fir 'And the Word was made flefh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the...

...are conftantly defcribed as having actually undergone this change. They are faid to be " born not of blood, nor of the will of the flefh, nor of the will of man, but of GOD*." They are fpoken of as having been " fometime darknefs, but now light in the LORD ;" as having...

...become the fons of God. And this power is the Eioly Spirit, which produceth a birth that is not of blood, nor of the will of the flefh, nor of the will of man, but of God; and, when this regenerating and renewing work is performed, the Spirit proclaims our fonftip,...