What the new birth is
How is everyone who is born of the Spirit? That is, born again? Born of God? What is meant by being born again, by being born of God, or by being born of the Spirit? What is implied in being a son or a child of God, or in having the Spirit of adoption?
We know that these privileges, by the free mercy of God, are ordinarily annexed to baptism. Our Lord therefore calls baptism, in the preceding verse, being born of water and of the Spirit (John 3:5). But we would know what these privileges are. What is the new birth?
1771 text
1. HOW is every one that is born of the Spirit? That is born again? Born of God? What is meant by the being born again? The being born of God? Or, being born of the Spirit? What is implied in, The being a son or a child of God? Or, having the Spirit of adoption? That these privileges, by the free mercy of God, are ordinarily annexed to baptism, (which is thence termed by our Lord in the preceding verse, the being born of water and of the Spirit) we know: but we would know what these privileges are? What is The New Birth?
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 18 in the 1771 Works. John 3:8.
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