Regenerate, justified, or believers
For the sake of those who really fear God, and who desire to know the truth as it is in Jesus, it may be useful to consider the point with calmness and impartiality. In doing this, I use the words regenerate, justified, and believers for the same people. They do not have precisely the same meaning. The first means an inward, actual change. The second means a relative change. The third is the means by which both the one and the other are worked. Yet they come to one and the same thing, because everyone who believes is both justified and born of God.
1771 text
II. 1. For the sake of these who really fear God and desire to know the truth as it in Jesus, it may not be amiss, to consider the point with calmness and impartiality. In doing this, I use indifferently the words regenerate, justified or believers: since tho’ they have not precisely the same meaning, (the first implying an inward, actual change, the second a relative one, and the third, the means whereby both the one and the other are wrought:) yet they come to one and the same thing; as every one that believes is both justified and born of God.
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Sermon 13 in the 1771 Works. Second Corinthians 5:17.
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