BE 111 - Regeneration; BE 113 - Self-examine & Repent

BE 111 (2,3)

. . . unless one is regenerated,
he cannot enter into heaven,
is very evident from the Lord's words:

Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth,
no one can see the kingdom of God
unless he is born again.
. . . "I tell you the truth,
no one can enter the kingdom of God
unless he is born of water and the Spirit."
(John 3:3, 5)

The precepts of regeneration are . . .:
That evils ought to be shunned,
because they are of the devil and from the devil;
that goods ought to be done,
because they are of God and from God;
and that the Lord is to be approached,
that He may lead us so to do.

BE 113

. . . if anyone from purpose or confirmation
acts against any other commandment of the Decalogue;
he then also offends against the rest,
because he does not account anything a sin.
It is very similar with those
who are in good from the Lord. These,
if from the will and understanding,
or from purpose and confirmation,
they abstain from one evil because it is a sin,
abstain from all,
and still more if they abstain from many;
for whenever anyone abstains,
from purpose and confirmation,
from any evil, because it is a sin,
he is kept by the Lord
in the purpose of abstaining from the rest;
wherefore if through ignorance,
or any predominant lust of the body,
he does an evil,
it nevertheless is not imputed to him,
because he did not purpose it to himself,
nor confirm it with himself.
A man comes into this kind of purpose,
if he examines himself once or twice a year,
and repents of the evil he discovers in himself.