A Word About the New Birth

    Here is a word by an old English theologian on the subject of "The New Birth," which, in this day, is the most misunderstood and misrepresented doctrine of the word of God.

    "Sinner, unconverted sinner, I warn thee thou canst never cause thyself to be born again; and though the new birth is absolutely necessary, it is absolutely impossible to thee unless God the Spirit shall do it. Do what you will, and still at your very best there is a division wide as eternity between you and the regenerate man. The Spirit of God must make you new; ye must be born again. The same power which raised Christ Jesus from the dead must be exerted in raising us from the dead. The very same omnipotence, without which angels or worms could not have had a being, must again step forth out of his privy chamber and do as great a work as he did at the first creation in making us anew in Christ Jesus our Lord."