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whence it riſer. # So every one, who is regenerated from the working of the Haly Spirit of God, 1s changed and renewed, fo as ve cm give our ſelves or others no account of it in all points, as to the taward Operation, tho' in the effects it be diſcernable. 9 Nicademus anf{wered and faid unto him *, How £c can thele things h2 we Nicodemus had berore ſpoken, as if he rhoughtir a thing im- podible, under{tanding,our Sav.our of a carnal Generation, which ke knew could nut be repeated : Percetving that he ſpake of a Spirt- tial Birth, he is now poſed ar the Myllery of it; it being a thing, the Doctrine of which he had not heen acquainted with. His car- 2al ftlapidyy hindred his under.tanding the firit Le{ſon of Chriitt- 4:ty. tho explained hy the Son of Righteouſneſs, and his Pride tind:r'd him trom confefling his Tenorance : He rather judges the Doctrine to be abſurd and impo.{ible, The like darkneſs 1s 1n eve- ey unrenewed mind 3 Regereration being like That new Name, which none underftand bur th fe that have 1t.
10 Jeſus anſwered and faid unto him, Art thou a malter of Iſtacl, and knowelt not theſe things x *
x Oar Saviour doth not ſo mnch wonder at, as upbraid the Igno-|
rance of Nocedemus, and all of his Sect, who went for Maſters or Teachers, and that in 1/rae!, who had the Law and rhe Prpohters, and yet were ignorant of thoſe things which were neceſſary to be known to every ordinary Perſon, Salvation. Will any fay, But where was there any thing {poke in the Books of the Law and the Prophers about Regeneration, or a being born again 2 anſ. What otter things could be meant by the C:reumciſion of the Heart, com- manded by Moſes, Dent. 10. 16. promiſed in Det. 3o, 6. by the new Heart, and the new Spirit, promiſed, Ezek. 36. 25+ 26, bythe clean H-art prayed tor by Dav:d, Pſal. 51. 10. A Teacher mn I/- rae!, ſhould from hence have underſtood the neceflity of a new, and of a clean heart ; bur the whole Sect of the Phariſees were fo taken up with the trifles of the Rites and Traditions, and the works of the Law, that as to theſe ſpiritual things of nearer and much high- er concernment to Peoples Souls, they knew, and ſpake little of them.
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ſpoken of the New Birth, as neceſſary to thoſe who ſhall Hs ſaved
here comes ro ſhew it in the Cauſes, and in{tancerh fir in the 1 * d torious, then in the inſtrumental Cauſe ; the meritoriovs "I os his Death ; he faith, Thar look as the Serpent was lifted up in Ws Wilderneſs: 2 So he, who was the Son of man mult he lifteg ws, that is, die upon the Croſs; the Phraſe is uſed twice more in "P; Goſpel, Chap. 8. 28. and 12. 32. 34» an illufion doubtleſs Au _ Type. Yer Mr. Calvin thinks the /ifred up here, more properl his terpreted of the Dottrine of the Goſpel, and by the Preaching K. oy and others apply ito Cir:/?s aſcention into Heaven ; and this her y ; Nicodemus mult be, for the fulfilling the Scripture, and the "nu F n of his Farther. "TRI
15 That whoſoever believeth in him, {houtq nor periſh, but * have eternal life 5. K
þ Here our Lord openerh the Inſtrumental cauſe of Fnſlificatiy, K, al and Salvation, that is, believing eg 4vT8y in him, Ir ig gne thin « 3 believe him as a Teacher,another thing to believe 77 him a5 © po The ObjeCt of the firſt is a Propotition ; we believe a Perſon when we aſſent and give credit ro whar he ſaith, becauſe he ſaith ir, The Object of the latter, is the Perſon and Merits of the Mediator, 4 the looking up to the brazen Serpent healed the Perſon, not by bs
11 * Verily, verily, I fay. unto thee, We ſpeak & 8. 28.that we do know y, and teſtifie that we have ſeen X12- 4% 2, and ye * receive not our witneſs a. K 14+ 3 » Chriit ſveaketh only of himſelf, tho' he ſpeaketh in rhe Plural 2446 a Number ; for in the next Verſe, be faith only, If 1 have told you earthly things ; he lets Nicodemas know, that he ſpake nothing, bur he was certain of. 7 This he expreſleth by two words, Know and See, which are terms expreiiive of the greateſt certainty of a thing imaginable; for the rerms expreſs a certainty of rhe mind, ariſing both from r:tional deduction, and fſenfible demonſtration ; and here- in cur Saviour lets his Mini{ters know whar is their Duty to teach unto People, v:7. What they know and have ſeen, thoſe that think that the Doctrine of the Goſpel would have no certainty, but for the authority of the Church, itand highly concern'd to reflect upon this Text, a Ye ought to believe what tell you upon the autho- rity of my Revelation ; bur fuch 1s the hardneſs of your Hearr, fuch your ftubboruneſs and unbelict, that you receive not my Teiti- mony.
12 li] have told you earthly things b, and ye believe not, How ſhall ye believe if I tell ye of hea-
venly things c ?