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 of our soul in the image of God, after the likeness of him that created it, is no other than a poor farce, and a mere mockery of God, to the destruction of our own soul. O beware of all those teachers of lies, who would palm this upon you for Christianity! Regard them not, altho' they should come unto you with ''all the deceivableness of unrighteousness'', with all smoothness of language, all decency, yea beauty and elegance of expression, all professions of earnest good will to you, and reverence for the holy scriptures. Keep to the plain, old ''faith, once delivered to the saints'', and delivered by the Spirit of God to our hearts. Know your disease! Know your cure! Ye were born in sin: therefore ''ye must be born again'', born of God. By nature ye are wholly corrupted: by grace ye shall be wholly renewed. In Adam ye all died: in the second Adam, in Christ ye all are made alive. You ''that are dead in sins hath he quickened'': he hath already given you a principle of life, even faith in him ''who loved you, and gave himself for'' you! Now go on from faith to faith, until your whole sickness be healed, and all that ''mind be in you, which was also in'' Christ Jesus!