§. 187.
The Spirit of Regene∣ration.
The Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Regeneration; who by his unspeakable power, doth work the strange work of our second Nativity: who is the seed of God, by whom we are new Creatures; by whom we are begotten, and born again; born of God, and made partakers of the Divine Nature, and Sons of God: who is the heavenly principle, derived into us from the second Adam, Lord from Heaven; con∣veying into our Soul Holiness, and into our Body Im∣mortality, and Life; as the flesh we received from the first Adam conveyed unto us, sin, and death: Who being the same Spirit in us, that also is in Christ, is the bond of that mystical union between Jesus the Head, and us the members; and between us, and all other fellow-members; making all Christians but one and the same Body, of the same temper, of the same inclinations, of one heart, and one mind, a∣mongst