But if the Reader be tborn of God, there is no nearer Way for him to come to the Knowledge of the third Principle, than by considering the new Birth, how the Soul is new born by the Love of God in the Light, and how it is translated out of the Prison or Dungeon of Darkness into the Light by a second Birth. And now if you consider that Darkness wherein it must be without the new Birth; and consider what the Scripture says, and what every one finds by Experience, that falls into the Wrath of God, and whereof there are terrible Examples; that the Soul must endure irksome Torment in itself, in the Birth of the Life of its own self, so long as it is in the Wrath of God; and then that if it be born again, exulting great Joy arises in it; and thus you find very clearly and plainly two Principles, as also God, Paradise, and the Kingdom of Heaven.

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