It plainly appears that they do err greatly who suppose that regeneration consists of nothing more than the communication of a new nature or principle to an individual, leaving everything else in him just as it was before. It is the person himself who is regenerated, his whole soul which is renewed so that all its faculties and powers are renovated and enriched thereby. How can everything else in him be unchanged, how otherwise can we designate the blessed transformation which the miracle of grace has wrought in him, than by styling it a great change- a real radical and thorough one; since his understanding ( which was previously darkened by ignorance and error and prejudice) is now spiritually enlightened since his affections ( which formerly were fixed only on the things of time and sense) are now set upon heavenly and eternal objects, and since his will ( which hitherto was enslaved by sin, being free from righteousness- Rom. 6:20) is now emancipated from bondage, being free from sin( Rom.6:18). That glorious transformation that supernatural change, is what we chiefly have in mind when we speak of the moral purification of the soul. AWPink
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:58:37 +0000
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