And now, as for you that are the children of God's people, a great
concern is upon my spirit for your good and often are my knees bowed to
the God of your fathers for you, that you may come to be partakers of the
same divine life and power, that have been the glory of this day: that a
generation you may be to God, a holy nation, and a peculiar people,
zealous of good works, when all our heads are laid in the dust. O! you
young men and women, let it not suffice you, that you are the children of
the people of the Lord; you must also be born again, if you will inherit
the kingdom of God. Your fathers are but such after the flesh, and could
but beget you into the likeness of the first Adam; but you must be
begotten into the likeness of the second Adam, by a spiritual generation,
or you will not, you cannot, be of his children or offspring. And
therefore look carefully about you, O ye children of the children of God;
consider your standing, and see what you are in relation to this divine
kindred, family, and birth. Have you obeyed the light, and received and
walked in the Spirit, which is the incorruptible seed of the word and
kingdom of God, of which you must be born again? God is no respecter of
persons.
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