THE UNCONVERTED. 53 I shall briefly give you that evidence of both, which, methinks, should satisfy a reasonable man. And first, if you doubt whether this be the word of God, or not, besides a hundred other texts, you may be satisfied by these few:-Matt. xviii. 3. "Ver· ily I say unto yo.u, except ye be conve!ted and .become as little children, ye cannot enter mto the kingdom of God." John iii. 3. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."~ Cor. v. 17. "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." Col. iii. 9, 10. "Ye have put off the old man with his deeds, aN.d have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him." Heb. xii. 14. "Without holiness none shall see God." Rom. viii. 8, 9. "So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." GaL vi. 15. "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature." 1 Pet. i. 3. "According to his abundant grace he hath begotten us to a lively hope." Ver. 2S. "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever." 1 Pet. ii. 1, ~. "Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and evil speaking, as new born babes desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby." Psalm ix. 17. "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God." Psalm xi. 4. " And the Lord loveth the righteous, but the wicked his soul hateth." As I need not stay to open these texts which are so plain, so I think I need not add any more of that multitude which speak the like. If thou be a man that dost believe the word of God, here is already enou~h to satisfy thee, that the wicked must be converted or condemned. You are already-brought so far, that you must either confess that this is true, or
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