REV. xviii. 4. Come out of Babylon my People, that ye be not Partakers of her Sins, and that ye receive not of her Plagues; for her Sins have reached unto Heaven, and God hath remembered her Iniquity. **** THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE, то THE REA DE R.* ΤΗ HOUGH I have in my other Writings fet down a clear Description of Regeneration, or the New-Birth, from the Ground thereof; yet because every one hath them not, neither hath every one the Capacity to understand them; I have therefore, as a Service to the fimple Children of Chrift, here fet down a fhort Sum concerning the New-Birth. But if any defire to search the deep Ground from whence all floweth, and have the Gift to understand it, let them read these Books following. 1. The Three Principles of the Divine Effence. 2. The three-fold Life of Man. 3. The 3. The forty Queftions of the Original Effence, Subftance, Nature, and Property of the Soud. 4. The Incarnation and Birth of Jefus Chrift the Son of God; alfo of his Suffering, Death and Refurrection. 5. The fix Points treating of the Three Words how they are in one another as one; and yet make Three Principles, viz. Three Births or Centres. 6. The Myfterium Magnum, which is an Interpretation upon Genefis. And in them he fhall find all that he can afk, and that as deep as the Mind of Man is able to reach. I have written this for the true Ifraelites, that is, for the Hungry and Thirsty Hearts that long after the Fountain of Chrift, who are my Fellow-Members in the Spirit of Chrift: But not for the Ishmaelites and Scorners, for they have a Book within them, wherewith they vex, perfecute, and suppress the Children of Christ that are under the Cross; and yet, though it be unwillingly and unwittingly to themselves, they must be Servants to fuch Children of Chrift. O F જીવ O F REGENERATION. CHA P. I. Shewing how Man fhould confider himfelf. I. CHRIST faid, Except ye turn and become as Children, ye fhall not fee the Kingdom of God. Again, he faid to Nicodemus, Except a Man be born again, of Water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God; for that which is born of the Flesh is Flefh, and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. 2. Alfo the Scripture pofitively declareth, that the Fleshly natural Man receiveth not the Things of the Spirit of God, for they are Foolishnefs unto him, neither can he know or conceive them. 3. Now seeing that all of us have Flesh and Blood and are mortal, as we find by Experience, and yet the Scripture faith, that We are the the Temples of the Holy Ghoft, who dwelleth in us, and that the Kingdom of God is within us, and that Chrift must be formed in us; also that He will give us his Flefh for Food, and his Blood for Drink: And that, Whofoever shall not eat of the Flefh of the Son of Man, and drink his Blood hath no Life in him. Therefore we should feriously confider, what kind of Man in us it is, that is capable of being thus like the Deity. 4. For it cannot be faid of the mortal Flesh that turneth to Earth again, and liveth in the Vanity of this World, and continually lufteth against GoD, that it is the Temple of the Holy Ghoft; much less can it be faid that the NewBirth cometh to pafs in this earthly Flesh, which dyeth and putrifieth, and is a continual House of Sin. 5. Yet feeing that it remaineth certain, that a true Chriftian is born of Chrift, and that the New-Birth is the Temple of the Holy Ghoft which dwelleth in us, and that the New Man only, that is born of Chrift, partaketh of the Flesh and Blood of Chrift; it appeareth that it is not so easy a Matter to be a Chriftian. 6. And that Chriftianity doth not confift in the mere knowing of the Hiftory, and applying the Knowledge thereof to ourselves, faying that Chrift died for us, and hath deftroyed Death ·and |