2.  If any here is a slave of sin, let him promptly prepare himself through faith for the new birth into freedom and adoption; and having put off the miserable bondage of his sins, and taken on him the most blessed bondage of the Lord, so may he be counted worthy to inherit the kingdom of heaven.  Put off, by confession See Index, “Confession.”, the old man, which waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit, that ye may put on the new man, which is renewed according to knowledge of Him that created him Eph. iv. 22; Col. iii. 10..  Get you the earnest of the Holy Spirit 2 Cor. i. 22. through faith, that ye may be able to be received into the everlasting habitations Luke xvi. 9..  Come for the mystical Seal, that ye may be easily recognised by the Master; be ye numbered among the holy and spiritual flock of Christ, to be set apart on His right hand, and inherit the life prepared for you.  For they to whom the rough garment Compare xv. 25. of their sins still clings are found on the left hand, because they came not to the grace of God which is given through Christ at the new birth of Baptism:  new birth I mean not of bodies, but the spiritual new birth of the soul.  For our bodies are begotten by parents who are seen, but our souls are begotten anew through faith:  for the Spirit bloweth where it listeth John iii. 8.:  and then, if thou be found worthy, thou mayest hear, Well done, good and faithful servant Matt. xxv. 21., when thou art found to have no defilement of hypocrisy in thy conscience.