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ion of the visible church of our blessed Redeemer. They ought to be persons who possess real, active, experimental and truly practical religion—persons who are indeed “Born again,” renewed in the spirit of their minds, possess implicit faith in the right- eousness of God their Saviour, and who have un— mistakably been made partakers of the Holy Ghost, in as far as these characteristics of genuine Spiritual regeneration canbe ascertained from a clear percep— tion of those fruits which are indicative of them, “even those fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, unto the praise and glory of God.” Now “The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meek- ness, temperance, against which there is no law.” Our Saviour says positively, “Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God,” and again, “Except a man be born of the water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.” He only has a title to the supremely honor- able name of Christian who departs from all in- iquity and “If any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his.” “The children of God are mani- fest and the children of the devil; whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.” But in seeking to ascer— tain the eligibility of those whoare justly entitled to rank as bona fide members of the true visible church, it is not at all necessary for us even to pretend to judge the heart. It is by their fruits that they are to be known, and only can be known bv man. It

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