Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-01-24
THINGS THAT ARE NOT REGENERATION.

THINGS THAT ARE NOT REGENERATION.
l. For the better understanding Of the
nature Of regeneration, take this along
with you in the first place; that as there
are false conceptions in nature, so there
arc also in grace; and by these many are
deluded, mistaking some partial changes
made upon them, for this great and thorough,
change. To remove such mistakes lee
these few things be considered. a. Many
call the church their mother, whom God
will not own to be his children: Cant. j. 6.
"My mothers children Il. O. false breth.
REM were angry with me-" All that are
baptized, are not born ngain: Simon
Magus was baptized, yet still sin the gall
of bitterness, and in the bond Of inquiry"
Acts viii. l3, %. Where Christianity IS
the religion of the country, many viii be
called by the name of Christ, who have no
more of him, but the name and no woa-
der, seeing the devil had his goats among
Christ's sheep, in those places where bat
few professed the Christian religion. l John
ii. 10. "They went out from us, but they
were not of u.s." (2.) Good educaaion
is not regeneration. Education may chain
up mems lusts, but cannot change their
hearts. A wolf is still a rayenous beast,
though it be in chains. Joash was very
devout during the life of his good tutor
Jehoiada; but afterwards he quickly shew-
ed what spirit he was of, by his sudden
upostacy, 2 Chron. xiv. 2, HIS. Good
example is Of mighty influence 10 change
the outward man but that change oiien
goes off, when one changes his company;
of which the world affords many sad
instances. a. A turning from open pro-
family, to ciyility and sobfiety, falls, short Of
this saving change. Some are,s Tor a
while, very loose, especially intheir yonng-
er years; but at length they reform, and
leave their profane curses. Here Is a
change, yet but such an one as. may be
found in men utterly void of the grace qf
God, and whose, righteousness is so far
from exceeding, that it doh not come up
to the. righteousness Of the Scribes and
Pharisees. az One may engage in all
the outward duties of religion, and yet not
be born again. Though lead be cast sin:o
a.o, SS Ws , "sanno ,ha ." noII,,ons ILL ~ or
.ha [ u,o,,d ond 10, he h,,, Joos L and su;ne
Do, ~ !; On 90 An ,be eSternol ac,s of
religion arc within the compass of natural
abilities. Yea. hypocrites may hayc the
counterfeit of all the praces of, the. aDirit
or ws rcad os ,r,e % ~bol;ness Eob =, %
and 6,;,I uns.;onea : Tin 5 3 ass;cl,
sbews ms that there .is a co,,oterfei. koli.
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odvance to n greot deal of s,r;ctresss Il
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