Excerpt from A Treatise on Regeneration Regeneration, according to the scriptural repre scutation of it, is a very different thing from all this. Neither orthodoxy, nor baptism, nor morality, nor outward reformation, nor the improvement of rea son, nor a visible profession, nor any degree of light to which the natural understanding may attain, answers to the conception of the new birth, as it lay in the minds of prophets and apostles. The change indicated by this term is real, not nominal; radical, not superficial; internal and Spiritual, rather than outward and carnal in a word; it is a change of the subject, and not of the name only. To be born again signifies nothing less than the infusion of a new principle of spiritual life into the soul, whereby it becomes both inclined and enabled to perform Spiritual actions, acceptable unto God. It signifies a re-impression of the Divine image upon the soul; the soul itself remaining the same in its essence, but becoming radically changed in its qualities, desires, and objects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.