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THE NEW BIRTH: The Work of the Holy Spirit in True Conversion
Austin Phelps, the author of "The Still Hour"
According to the Author, "The first four chapters of this volume have appeared, substantially, in the 'Bibliotheca Sacra' for the current year. By special arrangement with the publisher of that Quarterly they are now reissued, with one additional chapter. If my brethren in the ministry, Sabbath-school teachers, and other thoughtful Christians, find suggestions in these pages which help them, either in their own Christian culture or in their efforts to win souls to Christ, my chief object in this publication will be gained. I cannot but hope, also, that thinking men who do not own the Christian name will find here the Way of Salvation, commended to them by the same intuitions and calm reasonings by which they are accustomed to judge of truth in other things." - Austin Phelps, Andover Theological Seminary, Nov. 15, 1866.
"It is thoroughly practical, appealing continuously to the religious sensibilities of every reader." - A Review of the Original Volume
CHAPTER ONE - CONVERSION ITS NATURE
1. Faith of Common Sense in the Necessity of Conversion
2. Biblical Emblems of Conversion
3. Conversion Not a Ritual Change
4. Conversion Not a Constitutional Change
5. Conversion Not a Mystical Change
6. Conversion a Radical Change
-Counterfeits of Conversion
-A Converted Man, a New Man
-Character Under the Law of Perpetuity
-Conversion the Supreme Change
CHAPTER TWO - REGENERATION THE WORK OF GOD
1. What do we Mean by Divine Sovereignty in Regeneration?
2. Regeneration a Solitary Disclosure of God
3. Biblical View of the Supernatural in the New Birth
4. Experience of the New Birth Suggestive of a Supernatural Cause
-God Suggested by the Manner of Conversion
-God Suggested by the Magnitude of Conversion
-God Suggested by the Phenomena of Revivals
-God Suggested by Unconscious Conversion
5. Moral Uses of the Doctrine of Supernatural Regeneration
-The Profound Nature of Depravity
-The Harmony of Truth with Mind
-Man's Renewal, a Work Worthy of God
-The Lowliness of God
-The Holy Spirit a Personal Friend
-The Law of Dependence
CHAPTER THREE - TRUTH THE INSTRUMENT OF REGENERATION
1. Biblical View of Truth as Power
2. The Instrumentality of Truth a Fact in Regeneration
3. The Mode in which Truth Acts in Regeneration
4. The Simplicity of Regeneration
5. The Evidences of Conversion Intelligible to Common Sense
6. Creed Essential to Character
7. Christianity Independent of Fine Art
8. The True Ideal of the Pulpit
CHAPTER FOUR - RESPONSIBILITY AS RELATED TO SOVEREIGNTY IN THE NEW BIRTH
1. Difficulties of the Subject Practical
2. The Sense of Responsibility an Intuition
3. Responsibility not Destroyed by Depravity
4. Biblical Theory of Responsibility
5. Ability the Measure of Obligation
6. Responsibility and Sovereignty Harmonious
7. How to Answer the Inquiry, "What Must I do to be Saved?"
-Repentance and Faith Practicable, like other Duties
-The Dependence of Guilt more Absolute than the Dependence of Necessity
-Grace not Justice
-Encouragement to Immediate Repentance
-The Ruin of the Soul its own Work
CHAPTER FIVE - THE INDWELLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
1. The Sacredness of a Christian Being
2. The Restoration of Lost Self-Respect
3. The Intensity of Regenerate Love
4. The Working of the Spirit by Discoverable Laws
-The Law of Harmony with other Revelations of God
-The Law of Harmony with the Nature of Mind
-The Law of Co-operation
-The Law of Sanctification by Prayer
-The Law of Trust in a Divine Plan
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