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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1781 Excerpt:... John viii. 216. And here is that which Christ fays, He that is born of God bearetb God's Word: 47» But to the proud Pharisees he faiths Therefore ye hear not, for ye are not born of God; that is, though indeed they carried his Word and Law in their Mouths, yet their Souls were not born or generated in the Divine Ens. 21 y. And though they had the Light of Nature, yet it shone out of a strange foreign Fire, wherein Christ did indeed shine and reflect; but they were not capable to receive him, for that Ground was false and evil. "» 2i8 Thus a good Seed is sown, and that sometimes into an evil Soil or Field; yet the bottom Ground, or Foundation of the Seed is good. 219. But where a false evil Grain or Seed is sown into an evil Soil or Ground, there the like to its Substance grows out of it. 220. And as good Grain orSeed-must often stand in an evilGround or Soil, and yet bears Fruit, if the outward Accidents destroy it not; so likewise the Seed of Faith is often sown from one of the Tinctures either in the Manvor Woman, and the other sows its Poison into it; whereby the outward Man is wild, and inclined to Baseness and Wickedness. 221. But the inward Ground is good; and though it does somewhat that is evil, yet it quickly bewails and is sorry for it, and enters into Repentance. 222. Also many are thus, as to one Part,-poisoned and infected with the Source and Fountain of Sin, so that they have an evil Inclination and Propensity in them, perhaps to Thieving, Robbing, Murthering; also to Unchastity, Backbiting, bearing False Witness, and Perjury, but the other Part in Christ's Ens, always draws them from it. 223. And though in Weakness and Infirmity through the Snares of the Devil one transgresses, yet the Divine Ens comes to help him, if be doth no...