The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 354

REGENERATION

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In order to assist us in our representation of this mystery, the

greatest theologian of the

Reformed churches has presented the

divine plan in regeneration in the following stages: (i)

In His

own mind God

conceives the

new man; whom

(2)

modifies according to a particular person, thus creating the

man

;

(3)

He

brings the

germ

of this

new man

He new

into the center of

which center He effects the union between our ego and this germinating life; (5) in that vital germ God supports the formative power, which at His appointed time He will cause to come forth, by which our ego will manifest itself as a new man. our being;

(4) in

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