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in The Primitive Baptist (Apr. 1838)
FROM THE ABOVE FACTS, it is evident that there are two sorts of people in the world, (namely, the believer and the unbeliever) differing both in feelings and sentiments. They differ, firstly in their parentage. The former, having God for their father, “for ye are all the children of God by faith.” The latter are of their father the devil. 2d. They differ in their birth.—The former is born by promise. The latter is born of the flesh. The former of incorruptible seed, by the word of God which liveth and abideth forever.—The latter of a corruptible seed that is doomed to perish. 3rd. They differ, in the manner of their birth. The former a miracle of grace, effected by the Spirit of God alone. The latter is produced by a natural cause, and upon natural principles. 4th. They differ in spirit. The former possess and enjoy the spirit of God, “for as many as are led by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” The latter, possess the spirit of iniquity which worketh in the children of disobedience. 5th. They differ in mind. The former being spiritually minded, which is life and peace. The latter is carnally minded, which is death. 6th. They differ in feeling. The former feel the love of God shed abroad in their hearts by the Holy Ghost that is given to them, which never fails to produce in them a hatred to sin, and a love to God. Like the fountains of water that spring up in different parts of the earth, having their origin in the ocean, they invariably bend their course towards their fountain; and when two or more meet together, they mingle and form an union or oneness, and so continue their course, though with many meanderings, until at last they are swallowed up in the great ocean. |
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