In regeneration nature is not ruined, but rectified. The convert is the same man, but new made. The faculties of his soul are not destroyed, but they are refined; the same violin, but newly tuned. Christ gave not the blind man new eyes, but a new sight to the old ones. Christ did not give Lazarus a new body, but enlivened his old body. So God in conversion doth not bestow a new understanding, but a new light to the old; not a new soul, but a new life to the old one.
— George Swinnock (1627–1673), Prediger
Topics: Growth & Character, Grace & Redemption, Meaning & Identity
Occasions: For Reflection
George Swinnock
George Swinnock war ein englischer puritanischer Geistlicher und theologischer Schriftsteller des 17. Jahrhunderts, der unter anderem in Buckinghamshire und Kent wirkte. Er stand für eine bildhafte, alltagsbezogene Lehre der persönlichen Heiligung und verlor 1662 infolge des Uniformitätsakts als Nonkonformist zeitweise sein Pfarramt. Bibellesern bietet er bis heute seelsorgerlich ausgerichtete Zugänge zur reformierten Glaubenspraxis.
All quotes by George Swinnock (20)
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Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.
Eugene Peterson
Being a Christian is not a 'do-it-yourself' affair.
Jerry Bridges
Christ accepts us as we are, but he does not leave us as we are.
Ingrid Trobisch
John Newton
Charles Haddon Spurgeon