"of his own will begat he us with the word of truth." Eph. v. 26. "that he might cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word." 1 Cor. xii. 13. "by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body." Tit. iii. 5. "by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost."

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THE INWARD MAN. John iii. 5, 6. " that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." Rom. vii. 22. "after the inward man." THE OLD MAN BEING DESTROYED. Rom. vi. 6. "knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed." v. 11. "likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." 2 Cor. v. 17. "old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." Col. iii. 9-11. "that ye have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man."

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IN ALL THE FACULTIES OF HIS MIND; that is to say, in understanding and will. Psal. li. 10. "create in me a clean heart, O God." Ezek. xi. 19. "I will put a new spirit within you.... and I will give them an heart of flesh." xxxvi. 26. a new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you." Rom. xii. 2. "be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good.. will of God." Eph. iv. 23. "be renewed in the spirit of your mind." Philipp. ii. 13. "it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." This renewal of the will can mean nothing, but a restoration to its former liberty.

AFTER HIS OWN IMAGE. Eph. iv. 24. "put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness." Col. iii. 9-11. “which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him." 2 Pet. i. 4. "that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." If the choice were given us, we could ask nothing more of God, than that, being delivered from the slavery of sin, and restored to the divine image, we might have it in our power to obtain salvation if willing. Willing we shall undoubtedly be, if truly free; and he who is not willing, has no one to accuse but himself. But if the will of the regenerate be not made free, then we are not renewed, but compelled to embrace salvation in an unregenerate state.

A NEW CREATURE. 2 Cor. 5. 17. "if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature." Gal vi. 15. "a new creature." Eph. iv. 24. "the new man." See also Col. iii. 10, 11. Hence some, less properly, divide regeneration into two parts, the mortification of the flesh, and the quickening of the Spirit; whereas mortification cannot be a constituent part of regeneration, inasmuch as it partly precedes it, (that is to say, as corruption precedes generation) and partly follows it; in which latter capacity it belongs rather to repentance. On the other hand, the quickening of the spirit is as often used to signify resurrection as regeneration. John v. 21. "as the Father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth them, even so the Son quickeneth whom he will." v. 25. “the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live."

THE WHOLE MAN. 1. Cor. vi. 15, 19. "know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you?" 1 Thess. v. 23. "the very God of peace sanctify you wholly, and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."

FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF GOOD WORks. 1 John ii. 29. "if ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him." Eph. ii. 10. “we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works."

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IS SANCTIFIED. 1 John iii. 9. "whosoever is born of God, doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." v. 18. "whosoever is born of God, sinneth not, but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not." Hence regeneration is sometimes termed sanctification, being the literal mode of expressing that, for which regeneration is merely a figurative phrase. 1 Cor. vi. 11. such were some of you; but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified." 1 Thess. iv. 7. "God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness." 2 Thess. ii. 13. "because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit." 1 Pet. i. 2. "according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctification of the Spirit." Deut. xxx. 6. "Jehovah thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed,

to love Jehovah thy God." Sanctification is also attributed to the Son. Eph. v. 25, 26. “Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word." Tit. ii. 14. "that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself (unto himself as our Redeemer and King) a peculiar people."

Sanctification is sometimes used in a more extended sense, for any kind of election or separation, either of a whole nation to some particular form of worship, or of an individual to some office. Exod. xix. 10. "sanctify them today and to-morrow." xxxi. 13. "that ye may know that I am Jehovah that doth sanctify you." See also Ezek. xx. 12. Numb. xi. 18. "sanctify yourselves against to-morrow." Jer. i. 5. "before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations." Luke i. 15. "he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb."

The external cause of regeneration or sanctification is the death and resurrection of Christ. Eph. ii. 4, 5. “when we were dead in sins, God hath quickened us together with Christ." v. 25, 26. "Christ gave himself for the church, that he might sanctify and cleanse it." Heb. ix. 14. "how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God." x. 10. " by the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ." 1 Pet. i. 2, 3. "through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.... which hath begotten us again by a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." 1 John i. 7. " the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin."

Sanctification is attributed also to faith. Acts xv. 9. "purifying their hearts by faith;" not that faith is anterior to sanctification, but because faith is an instrumental and assisting cause in its gradual progress.

CHAP. XIX.-OF REPENTANCE.

THE effects of regeneration are REPENTANCE and FAITH.

REPENTANCE, or rather that higher species of it called in Greek Távora, is THE GIFT OF GOD, WHEREBY THE REGEN

ERATE MAN PERCEIVING WITH SORROW THAT HE HAS OFFENDED

GOD BY SIN, DETESTS AND AVOIDS IT, HUMBLY TURNING TO GOD THROUGH A SENSE OF THE DIVINE MERCY, AND HEARTILY

STRIVING TO FOLLOW RIGHTEOUSNESS.

THE GIFT OF GOD; namely, of the Father through the Son. Acts v. 31. "him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel." Jer. xxxi. 18. "I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus.... turn thou me and I shall be turned, for thou art Jehovah my God." Acts xi. 18. " then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life." Rom. ii. 4, 5. "thinkest thou this.... not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up," &c. 2 Tim. ii. 25. "if God peradventure will give them repentance."

PERCEIVING WITH SORROW. Psal. xxxviii. 4. "mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me." 2 Kings xxii. 19. "because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before Jehovah, when thou heardest what I spake against this place .... and hast rent thy clothes and wept before me." Psal. li. 3, 4. "I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me against thee, thee only have I sinned." Jer. iii. 13. "only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God." Ezek. xxxvi. 31. "then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities." v. 32. be ashamed and confounded for your own ways." xliii. 10. " 'that they may be ashamed of their iniquities." Rom. vi. 21. "those things whereof ye are now ashamed." 2 Cor. vii. 10. " godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of." v. 11. "for behold this self-same thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what

fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge."

THROUGH A SENSE OF THE DIVINE MERCY. Deut. iv. 29 -31. "but if from thence thou shalt seek Jehovah thy God .... with all thy heart." 2 Chron. xxx. 9. "for Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him." Psal. li. 17. "the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.' cxxx. 4. "there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared." Isai. xix. 22. "they shall return even to Jehovah, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them." lv. 7. "let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mercy upon him." Ixvi. 2. "to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my word." Jer. iii. 12. "return.... for I am merciful." Dan. ix. 4, 5, "I made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God." Hos. xi. 8. "how shall I give thee up, O Ephraim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together." Jonah iv. 10, 11. "thou hast had pity for the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured.... and should I not spare Nineveh ?” James iv. 9. "be afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness; humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up." Prov. xxviii. 13. “he that covereth his sins shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy."

HUMBLY TURNING TO Gon. 1 Kings viii. 48. "and so return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul." Jer. 4. iv. "circumcise yourselves to Jehovah, and take away the foreskins of your heart." Hos. v. 15. “I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face." Acts iii. 19. "repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out."

DETESTS AND AVOIDS SIN, STRIVING TO FOLLOW RIGHTEOUSNESS. Psal. xxxiv. 14. "depart from evil, and do good." Isai. i. 16, 17. "wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good." Amos v. 14, 15. "hate the evil, and love the good." Matt. iii. 8. "bring forth therefore fruits meet