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who is Christ was made a quickening spirit_ so that he might communicate new spiritual life to his children: Consequently the Son of God, quickens whom he will. He gives them strictly new, spiritual life, by which they revive from their natural state of death in sin, & become holy- they, imerge from the temper of mind which was common to Adam & his race; they come out of that enimical, dark, bewildered, dead state, & come into a temper of mind like Christ, their spiritual Father- They now love God as Christ does_ they hate sin as Christ hates it_ they love the laws of God in their purity as Christ loves them - they love God's government as Christ does__ & they are devoted to the glory of God as Ct is_ Their being quickend by him, they bear his image