_Mat. 12:33_—“_Make the tree good, and its fruit good_”; _Eph. 2:10_—“_created in Christ Jesus for good works._” The tree is first made good—the character renewed in its fundamental principle, love to God—in the certainty that when this is done the fruit will be good also. Good works are the necessary result of regeneration by union with Christ. Regeneration introduces a new force into humanity, the force of a new love. The work of the preacher is that of coöperation with God in the impartation of a new life—a work far more radical and more noble than that of moral reform, by as much as the origination of a new force is more radical and more noble than the guidance of that force after it has been originated. Does regeneration cure disease and remove physical ills? Not primarily. _Mat. 1:21_—“_thou shalt call his name Jesus; for it is he that shall save his people from their sins._” Salvation from sin is Christ’s first and main work. He performed physical healing only to illustrate and further the healing of the soul. Hence in the case of the paralytic, when he was expected to cure the body, he said first: “_thy sins are forgiven_” (_Mat. 9:2_); but, that they who stood by might not doubt his power to forgive, he added the raising up of the palsied man. And ultimately in every redeemed man the holy heart will bring in its train the perfected body: _Rom. 8:23_—“_we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body._” On holy affection as the spring of holy action, see especially Edwards, Religious Affections, in Works, 3:1‐21. This treatise is Jonathan Edwards’s Confessions, as much as if it were directly addressed to the Deity. Allen, his biographer, calls it “a work which will not suffer by comparison with the work of great teachers in theology, whether ancient or modern.” President Timothy Dwight regarded it as most worthy of preservation next to the Bible. See also Hodge, Essays and Reviews, 1:48; Owen on the Holy Spirit, in Works, 3:297‐336; Charnock on Regeneration; Andrew Fuller, Works, 2:461‐471, 512‐560, and 3:796; Bellamy, Works, 2:502; Dwight, Works, 2:418; Woods, Works, 3:1‐21; Anderson, Regeneration, 21‐50. B. It is an instantaneous change, in a region of the soul below consciousness, and is therefore known only in its results.