Pure Gold #228246

In like manner the changing of a sinner's heart into a new character is a divine creation. The wash ing away of our sins, and the reversing and changing of our affections, causing us to hate sin and to love and to long after holiness, IS a stupendous act of the Holy Spirit. The life of God is never grown into us, nor developed out of human affection, but an inexpressible miracle of life infused from an uncreated fountain. In the next place the gold as it exists in the mine or quartz is not amalgamated with other substances, though it is in close proximity to baser metals, and existing in the same lump with rock, or iron, or sand, yet it is always gold, and nothing but gold it never loses its inherent character.