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For the Sews.Mr. Editor: I see in your issue of February 27, another article upon the subject of the “New Birth/’ and I run perfectly surprised . at the amount of nonsense crowded into so 6malla space.There arc only two sensible views to be taken of Christ’s language, “except a man be boro of water and o( the spirit Ac./’ 1st, cither the Saviour ment the same as John the Baptist did when he said, “I indeed baptize you with water but, . He shall baptize yon with the Holy Ghost, and Are”—meaning the Holy Ghost as Are—consuming-purifying—as fire, intending to giro emphasis, or force to the vrord jus t proceeding it, or 2d, by water he intends to refer to. water baptism, as the sign and seal, under the gospel dispensation, of the baptism of the Holy Ghost; and as water baptism was thereafter to be the door of admission into Christ’s visible church so the baptism of the Spirit, is indispensably requite, to admittance into the heavenly kingdom Implying, that a person must b* willing to accept all the terms of Christ’s kingdom, be they pertaining to this world, or the world to come, if he would posses*, and enjoy the rights a nd privileges of ( citizenship. Virtually saying to Nicodesnu*, j “You are required to give up al 1 your pride of j intellect, all your cherished notionN though you f ere a rater ol the Jews,” and with child-like j faith accept the new order of things—accept of salvation opou the terms X lay down, as “a teach-A ft: of Furevery I piemeGFiinncet*r siat from God” —you cannot “see” or enjyis!»•the kingdom of God.The writer says; “Until men arc bom again they are flesh, and therefore mortal;” what nonsense. Don’t Christian people die? “The righteous die, likewise the fool/*It menus:—“like produces it* Uke/* The law t is universal tus though Josiishad said, “It will do j yju no good, NiCiMleimie, to be born again by or- ! dinary generation, for from depraved parents j you would be depraved still. You could not get j rid of fleahly or corrupt nature in that way. Yro:i j must be boru from above.for only that which is born of the Spirit, te spirit. That which is generated of the Spirit is pure, or holy, like GodBy •‘flesh” here i» meant sinful or corrupt nature, as the term i* often n*ed in the Bible.Another “confusion worse confounded” here; “every one that » born of the Spirit has power to come and go, mvstenously, like the wind/' What on earth doe s be mean? Arc Christians capable of flying these days? There hav^ been wot derful ronrals of lite; the air niu*t be full of the newly converted.Who doe* not know that the Savior by his reference to the unseen movements of wind, designed to impress the mind of his individual pupil then, as well as oars now, with the fact that, as in the realm of nature there arc unseen •gent*, wonderfully powerful agent* too—the wind for instance—blowing “whence it I*«teth rt So. in the spiritual realm, the Holy Gho^t is the divinely appolufnl agent in the work of Salvation. and while like the wind be is noseen in his operation*, his Presence and fofinencc, may as iewibly be Felt ami Seen, by the nouU of men. The Saviour says “We speak that we do know, and testify.that we have seen/* The all important matter is to know that we have experienced this this radical, moral, and spiritual change, by wnich we become **new creature! in Christ J esas/* C.. EDIto *tat the Ik-iand on Fathcforty i meant who In ther, Craerbio slou of 1 did u dation Johu G Gill vvi Elder I James tism u? year* c the vcc Elderi sitiou Ithe Ellt;comint liohed James James' he con thiak i wilt ta and th yon dilt; But ! wholetnallyration. «rithoi whole essenei oote» when 1 and Gi Unci counti have b heroi tats m Alexai tthoc Scotta greati under erectei
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Poseyville News
Poseyville, Indiana, US
Sat, Mar 06, 1886
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