[Coleridge’s Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge]@TWC D-Link bookColeridge’s Literary Remains, Volume 4. PART III 28/191
'The devils believe.' Ib.p.
166. Hence learn that true conversion is not so slight a work as we commonly account it.
It is not the outward change of some bad customs, which gains the name of a reformed man in the ordinary dialect; it is new birth and being, and elsewhere called 'a new creation.
Though it be but a change in qualities', yet it is such a one, and the qualities so far distant from what they before were, &c. I dare not affirm that this is erroneously said; but it is one of the comparatively few passages that are of service as reminding me that it is not the Scripture that I am reading.
Not the qualities merely, but the root of the qualities is trans-created.
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