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it can be stamped with the seal of the Holy Spirit and run into God's mould, so 
that the man may be renewed in the image of His holy Creator 1 and 
Redeemer. This change in a man is what is called the new birth, regarding which 
the Lord Jesus Christ says in the Gospel, 'Verily,2 verily, I say 
unto thee, Except a man be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.' This 
new birth is salvation from the love of sin, the power of sin, and the service 
of the world, the flesh and the devil. Intellectual conviction of the truth of 
the doctrine of the Trinity will not, of course, of itself produce this change; 
for, as we have said, right knowledge is not saving faith. But one of the great 
advantages of true and heartfelt belief in this doctrine as taught in the holy 
Scriptures is that it enables the believer in the Lord Jesus Christ to realize 
God's holiness, love and mercy, as well as His justice, wisdom and might, and 
thus to become capable of a change of heart and character such as we have 
described. It is thus that the attainment of salvation is closely connected with 
belief in the doctrine of the Most Holy Trinity in Unity. In order that a man 
may obtain deliverance from sin, it is necessary that he should know for certain 
that God Most High is so pure, holy and righteous that He always has hated and 
always will hate and loathe every kind of impurity 
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sin, must ever descend upon sin, whether inward in the heart or outward in the 
life. This renders it certain that sinners will perish for ever, unless by God's 
grace they are changed into holy men and have their past sins washed away in the 
blood of 'the 1 Lamb that hath been slain from the foundation of the 
world.' Whoever believes in the Trinity in Unity understands that not only God's 
holiness but also His love and mercy are infinite. He, therefore, knows that God 
Most High desires not 2 man's destruction but his salvation and his 
eternal happiness, and that God does everything that is consonant with His 
attributes of justice and mercy in order to bring men to true and everlasting 
bliss and holiness. Moreover, although God's justice, mercy and loving kindness 
have witness borne to them by the human reason and conscience; and although 
these divine attributes are set forth also in nature, in the change of the 
seasons and in many other ways, yet in this world we often notice that, for a 
time injustice prospers, the wicked and violent man seems happy, and the just 
and good man often leads a life of poverty, suffering and contempt. A man who 
has no knowledge of the holy Scriptures, and who looks only at the actual 
condition of things in this present world, often, therefore, doubts 
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