of them, and of their children after them.

Ezek. xi, 19, 20. And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh; That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezek. xxxvi, 25-27. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments,

and do them.

Ezek. xxxvii, 23. Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling-places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them, 30 shall they be my people,

and i will be their God.

Ezek. xxxix, 29. Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, saith

the Lord GOD.

more shall your heavenly Father
give the Holy Spirit to them that
ask him?

there! for, behold, the kingdom of
God is within yon.

John vi, 63. It is the Spirit that
quickeneth; the flesh profiteth
nothing: the words that I speak
unto you, they are spirit, and they
are life.

John vi, 45. It is written in the
prophets, And they shall be all
taught of God. Every man there-
fore that hath heard, and hath
learned of the Father, cometh
unto me.
Rom. viii, 5, 6. For they that
differences
1 Cor. xil, 5, 6. And there are things of the flesh; but they that
are after the flesh do mind the
of administrations, are after the Spirit the things of
but the same Lord. And there the Spirit.
are diversities of operations, but minded is death; but to be spirit-
For to be carnally
it is the same God which workethually minded is life and peace.
all in all.

Phil. iv, 7. And the peace of God,
shall keep your hearts and minds
which passeth all understanding,
through Christ Jesus.

God of peace sanctify you wholly;
1 Thess. v, 23. And the very
and I pray God your whole spirit
and soul and body be preserved
Lord Jesus Christ.
blameless unto the coming of our

kindness and love of God our
Titus iii, 4-6, But after that the
Saviour toward man appeared,
Not by works of righteousness
which we have done, but accord-
ing to his mercy he saved us, by
the washing of regeneration, and
renewing of the Holy Ghost;
through Jesus Christ our Saviour.
Which he shed on us abundantly

ILLUSTRATIONS OF IT.

have we through Christ to God-
2 Cor. ill, 4, 5. And such trust
of ourselves to think any thing as
ward: Not that we are sufficient
is of God.
of ourselves; but our sufficiency

Gal. v, 18. But if ye be led by
the Spirit, ye are not under the
law.

Eph. v, 9. (For the fruit of the
eousness, and truth.)
Spirit is in all goodness, and right-

2 Tim. i, 7. For God hath not
given us the spirit of fear; but of
power, and of love, and of a sound
mind.

James iii, 17. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, to be entreated, full of mercy and then peaceable, gentle, and easy good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Job. xxiii, 5, 6. I would know
the words which he would ans-separate themselves, sensual, hav-
Jude 19. These be they who
wer,me, and understand what he ing not the Spirit.
plead against me with his great
would say unto me. Will he
Power? No; but he would put
strength in me.

Joel ii, 28. And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the hand-derstanding. maids in those days will I pour out my Spirit.

Ilag. ii, 5. According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my Spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.

Matth. x, 19, 20. But when they how or what ye shall speak: for deliver you up, take no thought it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.

Mark xii, 11. But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what he shall speak, neither do ye premeditate; but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.

Luke xi, 13. If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children; Low much

Job xxxil, 8. But there is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them un

Gen. xli, 38, 89. And Pharaoh
said unto his servants, Can we
find such a one as this is, a man
in whom the Spirit of God ist
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph,
Forasmuch as God hath showed
thee all this, there is none so dis-
is the candle of the LORD, search-creet and wise as thou art.
ing all the inward parts of the
belly.

Prov. xx, 27. The spirit of man

Isa. iv, 4. When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem spirit of judgment, and by the from the midst thereof, by the spirit of burning.

Isa. xxxii, 15. Until the Spirit
be poured upon us from on high,
and the wilderness be a fruitful
field, and the fruitful field be
counted for a forest.

the faint; and to them that have
Isa. xl, 29. Ho giveth power to
no might he increaseth strength.

1 Kings xii, 22. But the word
of God came unto Shemaiah the
man of God, saying.

of God came upon Azariah the
2 Chron. xv, 1. And the Spirit
son of Oded.

kiah rejoiced, and all the people,
2 Chron. xxix, 36. And Heze-
for the thing was done suddenly.
that God had prepared the people:

2 Chron. xxx, 12. Also in Judah
the hand of God was to give them
one heart to do the command-
princes, by the word of the LORD.
ment of the king and of the

Acts ii, 16--18, 37, 38. But this was demanded of the Pharisees prophet Joel; And it shall come Luke xvii, 20, 21. And when he is that which was spoken by the when the kingdom of God should to pass in the last days, saith God, come, he answered them, and I will pour out of my Spirit upon said, The kingdom of God cometh all flesh; and your sons and your not with observation. Neither daughters shall prophesy, and shall they say, Lo Lere! or, lol your young men shall see visions,

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ind your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants, and on my hand-maidens, I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy. Now, when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and Baid unto Peter, and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized, every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

that I said unto thee, Ye must be
born again.

Gal. iv, 19. My little children, of
whom I travail in birth again until
Christ be formed in you.

James 1, 18. Of his own will begat he us with the kind word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

1 Pet. i, 29. Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. 1 John ii, 29. If ye know that Acts vi, 9, 10. Then there arose he is righteous, ye know that certain of the synagogue, which is every one that doeth righteouscalled the synagogue of the Liber-ness is born of him. tines, and Cyrenians, and Alex- John v, 4. For whatsoever is andrians, and of them of Cilicia born of God overcometh the and of Asia, disputing with Ste-world: and this is the victory that phen. And they were not able to overcometh the world, even our resist the wisdom and the spirit faith. by which he spake.

Acts viii, 29. Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.

Acts xi, 21. And the hand of the LORD was with them: and a great number believed, and turned again unto the Lord.

SPECIAL OPERATIONS.

2 Cor. iv, 6. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in

the face of Jesus Christ.

NEWNESS OF LIFE.

Rom. xili, 14. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

2 Cor. v, 17. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are be

come new.

Eph. iv, 20--25. But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off, concerning the former conversation, the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be regenewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in

Eph. v. 8. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are light in the Lord: walk as children of light.

1 Pet. ii, 9. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.

Rom. vi, 1, 2, 6, 11, 13. What shall we say then? Shall we con tinue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any Knowing this, longer therein? that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Neither yield you your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Rom. vii, 5, 6. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in oldness of the letter. newness of spirit, and not in the

Gal. ii, 19. For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

Eph. ii, 1. And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.

Eph. v, 18,14. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

Col. ii, 13. And you, being dead your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, bath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses,

righteousness, and true holiness. in
Wherefore, putting away lying,
speak every man truth with his
neighbour: for we are members
one of another.

Col. iii, 9--11. Lie not one to an-
other, seeing that ye have put off
the old man with his deeds: And
have put on the new man, which
is renewed in knowledge after
the image of him that created
him: Where there is neither
Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor
uncircumcision, Barbarian,
thian, bond nor free: but Christ is
all, and in all,

2 Cor. vi, 1. We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

2 Cor. vii, 1,2. Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, Scy-perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defraud

REGENERATION. John i, 12, 13. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John iil, 3-7. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, unto us exceeding great and pre-ed no man. 2 Pet. i, 4. Whereby are given I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the cious promises; that by these ye kingdom of God. Nicodemus might be partakers of the divine saith unto him, How can a man benature, having escaped the corborn when he is old? can he enter ruption that is in the world the second time into his mother's through lust. womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water, and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God, That which is born of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit, is spirit. Marvel not

OR LIFE FROM THE DEAD. Ezek. xvi, 6. And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.

Gal. v, 16, 25. This I say then, walk in the spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

2 Tim. ii, 1. Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Jude 20, 21. But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep yourselves in

Prov. II, 5. Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Prov. xvi, 3. Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.

LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEIsa. xxvi, 4. Trust ye in the HOVAH is everlasting strength.

Isa. 1, 10. Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.

ing, saith unto them, Have faith Mark x1, 22. And Jesus answer

in God.

Rom. xiv, 22. Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God....

1 Cor. ii, 5. That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 1 John iii, 23, 24. And this is the commandment,That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him: and hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

Job xiii, 15. Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

commandments, is a llar, and the truth is not in him.

Rev. ill, 8. I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

Matth. x, 33. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.

Matth. xli, 30. He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

Luke is, 26. For whosoever shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.

Luke xi, 23. He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.

Luke xii, 9. But he that denieth me before men, shall be denied before the angels of God.

John xii, 42. Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue.

2 Tim. ii, 12. If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us.

UNBELIEF AND ITS
PENALTY.

Exod. iv, 1. And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.

Num. xi, 21-23. And Moses sald, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month. Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them? And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD's hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.

Num. xx, 12, 13. And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children

of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them. This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctided in them.

Ps. III, 7. Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

Ps. lxxviii, 32, 33. For all this
they sinned still, and believed not
for his wondrous works. There-
fore their days did he consume
in vanity, and their years in
trouble.

Ps. cxvi, 11. I said in my haste,
All men are liars.

Acts xxviii, 24. And some be-
lieved the things which were
spoken, and some believed not.

Rom. x, 16, 17. But they have not all obeyed the gospel: for Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our réport? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Heb. iii, 18, 19. And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Heb. iv, 2, 6. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief.

John 1, 11. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

John v, 38.41,43. And ye have not his word abiding in you; for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. I receive not honour from men. I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

John vi, 36. But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.

John viii, 24, 45, 46. I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?

John xi, 46. But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.

John xvi, 9. Of sin, because
they believe not on me.

CONNECTION OF FAITH WITH
SALVATION.

Gen. xv, 6. And he believed in
the LORD; and he counted it to
him for righteousness.

1 Sam. xxx 6. And David was greatly distressed: for the people spake of stoning him; because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

P3. xviii, 30. As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried; he is a buckler to

all those that trust in him.

Ps. xxvii, 13. I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

Ps. xxxiv, 22. The LORD гodeemeth the soul of his servants; and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

Ps. xxxvi, 7. How excellent is thy loving-kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

P's. xxxvii, 39, 40. But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble. And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

Ps. xl, 4. Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

Ps. Ixxxiv, 12. O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

Ps. xci, 9, 10. Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

Ps. cxvi, 10. I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted.

Ps. CXXV, 1. They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.

Isa. xxvi, 3. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Isa. Ivii, 13. When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.

Jer. xvii, 7, 8. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is: For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of

Rom. v, 1, 2. Therefore, being
justified by faith, we have peace
with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ: By whom also we have Rom. vii, 1. Know ye not, breth-
access by faith into this graceren, (for I speak to them that
wherein we stand, and rejoice in know the law.) how that the law
hath dominion over a man as long
hope of the glory of God.
as he liveth?

believeth on me hath everlasting that believed not, when she had not hear the law? For it is writ

James ii, 23. And the scripture
ham believed God, and it was after the flesh; but he of the free
was fulfilled which saith, Abra-
imputed unto him for righteous-woman was by promise.

John xx, 29. Jesus saith unto 1 Peter 1,8, Whom having not bim, Thomas. because thou hast Been me, thou hast believed: seen, ye love; in whom, though blessed are they that have noting, ye rejoice with joy unspeaknow ye see him not, yet believ

1 John v, 9, 10. If we receive the James ii, 10-12. For whosoever
witness of men, the witness of shall keep the whole law, and yet
God is greater: for this is the wit-offend in one point, he is guilty of
ness of God which he hath testi- all. For he that said, Do not
fied of his Son. He that believeth commit adultery, said also, Do
on the Son of God hath the wit- not kill. Now, if thou commit no
ness in himself: he that believeth adultery, yet it thou kill, thou art
not God hath made him a liar, be- become a transgressor of the law.
cause he believeth not the record So speak ye, and so do, as they
that God gave of his Son.
that shall be judged by the law of
liberty.

Acts xvi, 29--32. Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. Rom. 1, 17. For therein is the one of a thousand.

JUSTIFICATION NOT BY

BUT BY FAITH BRINGING
RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Ps. lxxi, 16, 17. I will go in the
strength of the Lord GOD; I will
make meution of thy righteous-
¡ness, even of thine only. O God,