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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 26 SERMON III. THE RE-CREATION OF MAN. II. Corinthians, v. 17. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature The text is one of those wonderful sayings, whereby the Gospel at once meets the wants, and surpasses the hopes of mankind. For does not every thoughtful man feel the burden of our old nature ? Does not the infirmity of men's acts perpetually mock the ardour of their expectations ? To will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I find not. How welcome then the intimation, that if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away, behold all things are become new. That which is announced to us is no mere improvement, no exaltation or enhancement of existing qualities; it is the reconstruction, not the amendment of humanity; its ancient principles are to be fundamentally recast; and a new creation is to be substituted for the old one. Thus is the thing bestowed after which collective humanity had been yearning? the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. To effect this work was the great object of Christ's coming; in His own person He accomplished that which could never have been attained by the temporary palliatives of Jewish law, and built up a new creation out of the ruins of the old one. In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but the new creation: and as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them and mercy, and on the Israel of God. Let us consider, first, what this new creation is; secondly, how it was to be effected. I. It is a re-creation of man's nature. The new race, therefore, consists still of the same individual beings, who constituted the old one. The family of Adam has not been superseded by any fresh progeny. The ...
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