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Two things I shall do in prosecuting this Argument. First, Prove that all Believers are begotten and born of God. Secondly, Show you how it doth appear from hence that they can never finally fall away, and eternally perish.

Two things I shall do in prosecuting this Argument. First, Prove that all Believers are begotten and born of God. Secondly, Shew you how it doth appear from hence that they can never finally fall away, and eternally perish.

First, That they are begotten of God, appears from several Scriptures; Of his own Will beg at he us with the Word of Truth, &c. ¹Merely by his own Grace, as the original Cause; with the Word by the Spirit, as the instrumental Means. Spiritual Generation is the Work of God, the Product of the Will of God, and not of the Will of Man: Which were born not of Blood, nor of the Will of the ²Flesh, nor of the Will of Man, but of God. Not of Blood, as in natural Generation, or not of the Blood of Abraham; Grace and Regeneration being not the Product of the State or Faith of believing Parents: This was the carnal Boast of the Jews, We have Abraham to our Father. Not of the Power of Man's Will, that cannot ³produce the New Creature in himself, nor in a Child or Brother: If it was in the Power of a godly Man or godly Minister to convert or to regenerate his Child, his Wife, or his Brother, would he let them perish? But alas, alas, this is out of Man's reach, out of his Power, he cannot renew himself: A Child may as easily beget it self in the Womb before it self was, as a Man can form Christ in his own Soul, or regenerate himself; 'tis God that doth it, the Holy Spirit begets us: Except a Man be born of Water and of the ⁴Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God; and every one that loveth him