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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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and evil, and that God's wrath, which means His deep hatred of all
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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