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receive it. Everything around you bids you use your eyes and see.html">see.html">see;
also. This is exactly the case with regard to faith.html">faith.html">faith. Free grace.html">grace.html">grace
us; free grace gently sends us some beams of truth.html">truth, which is the light
understanding to see those beams; it excites us, in various ways, to
faith, such as opportunities to hear, read, enquire, and power to
truth. But, after all, _believing_ is as much our own act as
Nay, we may.html">may do by the eye of our faith, what some report Democritus
to rid himself of that disagreeable sight, he put his eyes out. We
_comes into the world;_ we may so dread it because our works are
as these: _Their eyes have they closed, lest they should see:
blinded_."
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FROM ANIMAL man.html">man.html">MAN TO SPIRITUAL MAN.
"What is the state.html">state.html">state of a soul.html">soul that is born.html">born again; and in what does
by which man passes from a state of nature to a state of grace. He was
natural birth had made him like to fallen Adam--to the old man,
the wages of sin; but his spiritual birth makes him like to Jesus
righteousness and true holiness. He was before born a child of wrath--
self-love, a lover of money and of earthly glory and pleasure, rather
heir of God, and a joint heir with Christ. The humility, the purity,
which is given to him, making him bear the image of the _Second
all things are become new. All the powers and faculties of his soul
illuminated by the experimental knowledge which he has of God and. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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