Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

2. Where this new birth is, there is new words, new works, new affections, a new conversation,¹ Old things are passed away, behold, all things are become new. Paul once a persecutor, but Behold now he prayeth. And Such were some of you, but now ye are washed, now ye are sanctified, now ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God; As every man is, so is he affected, so he speaks, and so he lives; if thy life be supernatural, so is thy affections, so is thy words, so is thy conversation; Paul lived a life once of a bloody persecutor, he breathed out threatenings against all the Professors of the Lord Jesus, but now it is otherwise; The life which I now live in the flesh, ²I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. O my soul, Hast thou the old conversation, the old affections, the old discourse, the old passions thou used to have? What? Is thy heart a den of lusts, a cage of unclean imaginations? Then fear thy self, there cannot from a sweet fountain come forth bitter streams; there cannot from a refined spirit, as refined, come forth corrupted actions or imaginations; a Thorn cannot send forth Grapes, saith Christ; so neither can a Vine send forth Thorns, say we. I know there is in the best, something of flesh, as well as of the spirit; but if thou art new born, then thou canst not but strive against it, and wilt endeavour to conquer it.

2. Where this new birth is, there is new words, new works, new affections, a new conversation,¹ Old things are passed away, behold, all things are become new. Paul once a persecutor, but Behold now he prayeth. And Such were some of you, but now ye are washed, now ye are sanctified, now ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God; As every man is, so is he affected, so he speaks, and so he lives; if thy life be supernatural, so is thy affections, so is thy words, so is thy conversation; Paul lived a life once of a bloody persecutor, he breathed out threatenings against all the Professors of the Lord Jesus, but now it is otherwise; The life which I now live in the flesh, ²