having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
Perhaps without my endeavoring to enlarge further you could yourselves muse upon this theme. It remains but for me upon this first head to return with earnestness to that point upon which I fear the greatest difficulty lies--the realisation of this birth--for we repeat it, we are speaking of a fact and not a dream, a reality and not metaphor. 