FROM GRACE TO GLORY BORN AGAIN by Octavius Winslow

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Thus, there must first be in the new birth this emancipation from the bondage of Satan--the Pharaoh of this world--before there is the translation of the soul into the kingdom of Jesus. The two dominions cannot co-exist in the soul. We must first be drawn out of the pit of corruption, delivered from the power of darkness, before we are placed in a state of grace, or translated into the kingdom of God's dear Son. Nor can the two images coexist in the same individual--the image of God and the image of Satan. The one must be erased and destroyed before the divine lineaments of the other can be drawn by the Spirit upon the soul. This deliverance from the power of Satan and the corruption of sin in the new birth is not such a deliverance as totally frees us from the indwelling of sin, or entirely emancipates us from the temptations and harassings of Satan. With these the regenerate have to contend until life's last hour. That which is born of the flesh remains flesh until this corruption shall put on incorruption. And Satan, the accuser, will hover around the hour of the saint's departure intent upon winging his fiery darts to the very last. But, notwithstanding this, it is a blessed and glorious deliverance and disenthrallment which grace achieves. It is a deliverance from sin's guilt, condemnation, and reign. It is a disenthrallment from Satan's dominion, rule, and power. And so God, in the exercise of His sovereign grace, has delivered us who believe from the power of darkness, and for this deliverance heaven's high arches shall ever more ring with our shouts of praise! But God not only delivers us from the power of sin, but He puts us in a state of grace. Hence the expression, "Has TRANSLATED us into the kingdom of His dear Son." Translated, that is, transferred from one kingdom into another. It follows that, all who are born again are the subjects of Christ's rule and government and law. They have been translated into the mediatorial kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, and 34 of 174
henceforth are governed by His special grace, restraining and mortifying their corruptions, daily renewing them in the spirit of their minds, will, and affections, bringing every thought, aim, and desire into obedience to Christ. Again, we pause, and press the inquiry, Have you been thus delivered and thus translated? Do you know what it is to have those galling fetters broken which bound you to the corruption of sin? Do you know what it is to have the yoke removed which bowed you under the service of Satan? This it is to be born again, and by this deliverance and translation you may know your condition as either regenerate or still unregenerate. And if by a careful examination of your real state as before God, and by bringing yourself to the unerring touchstone of the gospel, you are enabled to come to a scriptural and satisfactory conclusion that you are born again, hold fast the liberty with which Christ has made you free, and be not again entangled with the yoke. Ever remember that you have liberty indeed in Christ Jesus, but that it is a spiritual and not a carnal, a holy and not a lawless, liberty. You have become freed from the curse of the law, Christ having been made a curse for you; from the rigor of the law, Christ having given it an exact and full obedience; and from the guilt, tyranny, and condemnation of sin, Christ having washed you in His own most precious blood. But you have no liberty TO sin, to use your liberty as an occasion for the flesh, but are bound by the most sacred, solemn, and eternal obligations to "deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live godly, righteously, and soberly in this present evil world." If the description which we have thus given of the nature of the new birth be true--and scripturally true we verily and solemnly believe it to be--no lengthened argument will be needed to establish the proposition that it is a DIVINE and SUPERNATURAL work. Holy ancestry does 35 of 174
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Page 33: Again we press an individual applic
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Page 67 and 68: fountain of perfume. Oh, marvelous
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But by whose grace and vitality doe
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crushed; love wanes and expires; an
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I. Real conversion is a self-eviden
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tears? Did He dismiss her still lad
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Lord shall extend the welcome, "Com
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the light. No one immured in a dung
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salvation with a believing and assu
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Your love, and checking the gentle
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shall lack no evidence of his new b
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and grows up, in the evening it is
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of the grave, and was declared to b
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e seen, then, how much importance w
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Administer medicine to a corpse, an
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with significance! How glorious its
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Christ Jesus, then the future, with
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mercy, on whom He bends a frown of
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Saul of Tarsus, who once gloated in
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And yet, all is right! It is proper
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putting forth its fruit. Born of Go
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The very constitution of the renewe
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from every quarter and in every par
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into the experience of this truth.
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mine! Did I suspect the existence o
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Prayers that satisfied us in prospe
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hope, are many religious professors
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which, like a two-edged sword, pier
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its blessings--its fainting, but no
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In other words, "When you are resto
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actings of the soul, it will be at
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than parent or child, brother, sist
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evidences of salvation, many a chil
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Nor does he desire to know it. It i
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God from whom you have wandered? "R
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enewed baptism of the Holy Spirit,
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the council of His own will, and gi
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Let us now turn our attention to th
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transcending all pleasures--are the
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e weak and trembling; nevertheless,
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Lord Jesus. "That I might know Him,
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indeed more than the pledge, it is
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waters, who had rebelled against Hi
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afflictive dispensation by which He
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The Lord gives, also, the TITLE to
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an innumerable company of angels, w
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If the words of Jesus be true--and
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FROM GRACE TO GLORY BORN AGAIN by Octavius Winslow

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