Because your questions savour of an unregenerate and unbelieving heart; because they make light of the Word of truth; because the Spirit of God is not in you.
Probably (though this is not clear) your unregenerate condition is in itself sinful, "individuation" being not very different from the Original Sin of the theologians.
The flames which His Divine justice have kindled cleanse an unregenerate humanity, and fuse its discordant, its warring elements as no other agency can cleanse or fuse them.
In this sense, the unregenerate man may be said to be wholly sinful; and he who is born of God, not to commit sin.
In the unregenerate we understand him to teach that the law of evil is the stronger, and holds the man, the personal will, captive.
As long as he lives he is believed unregenerate and unconverted.
From this gospel view our author remands us to Paganism, and to the dicta of the natural conscience in unregenerate man.
The result of this examination will show that the great body of the Orthodox, of all schools, continues to deny any real ability in the unregenerate man to do the will of God.
These testimonies only show, that conscience, in its unregenerate state, demands that the sinner be punished, and does not care whether that punishment does him good or harm, makes him better or worse.
Let us see what Orthodoxy says of the inability of the unregenerate man.
Nor, again, do we deny that in the unregenerate state the will of man is directed to self rather than to God as its ultimate end; and that this is guilt, and in a certain sense total guilt.
It is his plan to bring into the church insincere, unregenerate elements that will encourage doubt and unbelief, and hinder all who desire to see the work of God advance, and to advance with it.
In the unregenerate heart there is love of sin, and a disposition to cherish and excuse it.
The process of bringing the "Jones plane of mentality" uppermost in Mr. Amidon would not have been regarded by the masculine reader of the unregenerate sort (though to such far be it from me to appeal!
But Mr. Amidon, I must declare, was not of the unregenerate sort.
For we hold that the religious lessons of the unregenerate lack regenerating life; and that whatever in this all-important department does not intenerate and soften, rarely fails to harden and to sear.
I have seen her, and talked with her, and I pity the hard, bitter, unregenerate and vindictive heart of the man who is prosecuting her for murder.
There is a Scriptural injunction concerning kindness to enemies, which amounts to heaping coals of fire on their heads; and to my unregenerate nature, it savors more of subtile inquisitorial cruelty, than of Christian charity.
When the series was published, Table Talk was put first, being supposed to be the lightest and the most attractive to an unregenerate world.
The spiritual man can see the condition of the unregenerate for he was once in darkness, but the unregenerate can never understand the condition of the regenerate.
For an unregeneratesecond he had become the gallant Rupert Mainwaring again, and showed me wherein might lie his attraction.
The fact of a man's finding religion and abjuring sack does not in itself exculpate him from wrongs which he has inflicted on his fellow-creatures in unregenerate days.
There are two tendencies in unregenerate people, one to good, and one to evil, and it is their duty to resist the one and obey the other, and thus to seek for regeneration.
Then I had but little knowledge of human nature, either in its regenerate or unregenerate state.
Sin is personified as dwelling in the flesh, which expression here means, not merely the body, but unregenerate human nature.
Paul is generalising his own experience when he speaks of the condemnation of an intrusive alien force that holds unregenerate human nature in bondage.
He's anunregenerate youth--that boy of yours, ma'am.
Remember that you have often trembled at the thought of eternal judgment,--but you are unregenerate still.
Hence, the attempt to follow the dictates of conscience always costs an unregenerate man an effort.
As a consequence, theunregenerate man knows but "in part" respecting the primitive and constitutional necessities of his being.
If Scripture language and figure mean anything, this is a description of an unregenerate Church over which the Lord is pleading.
Though under the restraining hand of God, Satan, according to Scripture, is now in authority over the unregenerate world, and the unsaved are unconsciously organized and federated under his leading.
It has also been stated that the unsurpassed tribulation only awaits the withdrawal of the restraining hand of God, for all the required elements for such a condition are latent in the unregenerate heart (Rom.
The relation between the unregenerate and Satan is still more vital, according to the original from which I Jno.
Satan has no controversy or warfare with his own unregenerate people, but there is abundant Scripture to prove that he makes unceasing effort to mar the life and service of believers.
Tribulation will, therefore, instantly begin when the hand of God is removed from the unregenerate and Satan-ruled humanity.
Only the relation of the unregenerate to this world and to Satan will be continued here.
It was strongly built of rough-hewn logs, the proprietor rightly judging, in the unregenerate days of Jackman's Gulch, that hogsheads of brandy and rum were commodities which had best be secured under lock and key.
Hopkins better, we discovered that in spite of his piety there was a leaven of old Adam in him, and that he had certainly known unregenerate days.
From the standpoint of unregenerate human nature, the whites as a body at first took none of these courses,--they stood apart from the whole business of politics, in wrath and scorn.
Consider this, you that are here present, that yet remain in an unregenerate state.
And this original of it is that by which it is most essentially distinguished from that common assent which unregenerate men are capable of.
Not once a day, but once every hour at least, did she recall thatunregenerate impulse of Lady Blixworth's, confessed to at this very Barslett, and accord it her heartiest sympathy.
Beaufort Chance, that terror of hers, whose coarse rebukes made justice seem base cruelty, was gone too--and Trix was still unregenerate enough not to care a jot with what feelings.
To her--unregenerate but not unbelieving--the message of Krishna seemed to strike a deeper note of promise.
