_Mr. Roscoe._--"There will not be that visible transition, in his case, from a state of depravity to a state of purity; but the moral man, when regenerated, will become a _pious man_. He will discover the same anxiety on the question of his personal salvation--the same attachment to the Bible--the same zeal for the conversion of others--the same disposition to converse on the essential doctrines of the gospel, as the regenerated immoral man; and he will ascribe this change to the same supernatural cause; and, by the avowal of his sentiments and by his decision, he will provoke the same expression of scorn and contempt from the men of the world. There will be a striking similarity between his character and his religious habits after his regeneration, and the character and religious habits of one who was previously an immoral man, but who has _been renewed in the spirit of his mind_; and they will both be in possession of more satisfactory evidences of their regeneration than any exterior change which their character and their life may supply." _Rev. Mr. Roscoe._--"What are those _other_ evidences of regeneration to which you now refer?" Mrs. John Roscoe now became much excited. "Yes," she said, "that's the important question I want explained. I have been living many years under a most fatal delusion, for though baptized, I am not regenerated; nor do I as yet know what regeneration is. Be very simple and plain in your explanation." She now sat looking and listening with a fixed intensity of anxious earnestness, reminding me of the appearance of a defendant whom I once watched in a crowded court, during the prolonged consultation of the jury, whose verdict was to secure to him the possession of his rich inheritance, or reduce him to comparative pauperism. _Mr. Roscoe._--"A person who is regenerated will be introduced as into a new world; the transition from his former to his new moral condition, whether it takes place suddenly, or by a gradual process, will be so clear to his mind that he cannot doubt it; he will form new and more accurate perceptions of the character of God--of his own character--of the visible and invisible world--and of the official character of Jesus Christ; he will feel the force of obligations pressing upon him, of which he had previously formed no conception, and he will discover sources of enjoyment of a new and a more refined order." _Rev. Mr. Roscoe._--"I fear you are now taking me into an imaginary region, where we shall be both lost amidst the obscurities of a fanatical and enthusiastic belief."