The figure of a birth
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The ground and reason of the expression is easy to understand. When we undergo this great change, we may with much propriety be said to be born again, because there is so near a resemblance between the circumstances of the natural birth and of the spiritual birth. To consider the circumstances of the natural birth is the easiest way to understand the spiritual.
1771 text
2. The ground and reason of the expression, is easy to be understood. When we undergo this great change, we may with much propriety be said to be born again, because there is so near a resemblance between the circumstances of the natural and of the spiritual birth: so that to consider the circumstances of the natural birth, is the most easy way to understand the spiritual.