Justification and the new birth
It has often been supposed that being born of God was the same thing as being justified, and that the new birth and justification were only different expressions for the same thing. It is certain, on the one hand, that whoever is justified is also born of God, and on the other, that whoever is born of God is also justified. Yes, both these gifts of God are given to every believer in one and the same moment. In one point of time his sins are blotted out (Acts 3:19), and he is born again of God.
1771 text
1. IT has been frequently supposed, that the being born of God was all one with the being justified; that the new birth and justification were only different expressions, denoting the same thing: it being certain on the one hand, that whoever is justified, is also born of God; and on the other, that whoever is born of God, is also justified: yea, that both these gifts of God are given to every believer in one and the same moment. In one point of time his sins are blotted out, and he is born again of God.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 19 in the 1771 Works. First John 3:9.
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