Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Puritan Wisdom

On I Peter 1:23 --

"What is it to be born again; Its to be made new creatures, to be cast in a new mold, to have the corrupt Image of Sin, which we have by Nature (and wherein we are all conceived and born) put off throughout, and the contrary good one, wherein we were at the first created, put on, to have the understanding enlightened with distinct knowledge of God, the heart bowed to the obedience of God, &c., new thoughts, desires, speeches, actions: In the new Creature all things must become new; Thus its done to all that were elect before the foundation of the world: They are changed up and down, from a good state by Creation, to a bad in Adam; from thence to a good one in Christ, by grace here in expectation of glory hereafter: For the wicked, they are changed from good to bad, and they remain the same (but still worse and worse) for ever; we should give God thanks that made us so good at first, be humbled to see our base and woful state now, and seeing there is help, never to be quiet till we recover our first condition."

– John Rogers, 159-160.

5 comments:

PASTOR said...

I WONDER WHY YOU HAVE LABRA POSTED ON YOUR PROFILE ????
I MISS SCOTT .

PASTOR said...

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY YOU ADDED YOU SIGN IN YOUR PROFILE????

PASTOR said...

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY YOU ADDED YOU SIGN IN YOUR PROFILE????

PASTOR said...

I NEED TO KNOW WHST MEDICAL PRAY YOU NEED .

Rev. Dr. Peter A. Butler, Jr. said...

If you enter your birthday, your sign appears. It is not meant to convey a belief in astrology.