BEEBE ON THE SUBJECT OF REGENERATION

[We investigate what Beebe thought on the subject of regeneration.  These results plus others, will be included in an upcoming eBook titled, Regeneration and the New Birth.  This discussion occurred between Elder Lackey and me when he questioned whether both terms were the same - ed]

Now, whether the word regeneration, which occurs but barely twice in the Bible, refers to the begetting of the Son of God from the dead, and his being the firstborn from the dead, and the resurrection life of Christ secured to all his seed, constituting them the children of the resurrection, or not, is not so important for us to know and comprehend as it is that we should know and gratefully acknowledge that when Jesus arose from the dead, in his resurrection the portals of immortal glory were opened to all who are accounted worthy of that world, and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

Beebe, Elder Gilbert. Welsh Tract Publications - Elder Gilbert Beebe (p. 617). Welsh Tract Publications. Kindle Edition.

No idea seems to be entertained by Webster, nor by the learned theologians, from whom he borrows his theory, that the mind of man is a carnal or fleshly mind, that it is at enmity against God, not subject to the law of God, neither indeed, can be. Indeed, the prevailing doctrine of all will-worshipers, and carnal religionists, is that regeneration, the new birth, and all that is involved in the Christian experience, is only to give some new impulse to our old carnal faculties, a new direction to the old carnal mind, and a new inclination and direction to the affections and lusts of the flesh.

Beebe, Elder Gilbert. Welsh Tract Publications - Elder Gilbert Beebe (p. 1326). Welsh Tract Publications. Kindle Edition.

Neither faith nor baptism is regeneration, but both are evidences of a regenerated state.

Beebe, Elder Gilbert. Welsh Tract Publications - Elder Gilbert Beebe (p. 753). Welsh Tract Publications. Kindle Edition.

The regenerating power of the Holy Ghost is by none of them considered an indispensable prerequisite to their religion. Jews, Pagans, and Mohammedans pretend to have no such qualification; Catholics and Protestants profess to believe regeneration to be necessary, but hold it to be a work that can be performed through the instrumentality of men and means.

Beebe, Elder Gilbert. Welsh Tract Publications - Elder Gilbert Beebe (p. 1277). Welsh Tract Publications. Kindle Edition.

…the struggle the labor, the travail of regeneration gives place to deliverance of the new man, which, not after Adam is created a natural, carnal or corruptible man, of the earth earthy; but is created after God (Christ) in righteousness (Christ) and true holiness (Christ.) By this renewing of the Holy Ghost a spiritual life is communicated to the child of God, which is the spirit of promise (in distinction from law) and whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these we might be made partakers of the divine nature.

Beebe, Elder Gilbert. Welsh Tract Publications - Elder Gilbert Beebe (p. 1561). Welsh Tract Publications. Kindle Edition.

Therefore that life which is born of the flesh is born of corruptible seed and is mortal. But they who are the subjects of regeneration and the new birth, are born of God, of an incorruptible seed, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever; and they are a “chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people.”

Beebe, Elder Gilbert. Welsh Tract Publications - Elder Gilbert Beebe (p. 1742). Welsh Tract Publications. Kindle Edition.

The washing of regeneration must mean the putting away our sins by the sacrifice of himself, for he gave himself for us for that very purpose, that he might cleanse us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, and present them without spot or wrinkle before God.

Beebe, Elder Gilbert. Welsh Tract Publications - Elder Gilbert Beebe (p. 2136). Welsh Tract Publications. Kindle Edition.

by this quickening spirit, and by this quickening spirit, in regeneration, all the saints are born of incorruptible seed by the Word of God, and by this self-same spirit the mortal bodies shall finally be clothed in immortality

Beebe, Elder Gilbert. Welsh Tract Publications - Elder Gilbert Beebe (p. 3259). Welsh Tract Publications. Kindle Edition.

...we pass to notice how this salvation is brought home experimentally to the heirs of promise. “By the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost; and according to his mercy.” By the washing of regeneration, we understand the cleansing operation of the Holy Spirit in the work of regeneration. We have attempted to show, when dwelling on the subject of regeneration, that as the effect of being quickened into life, we are brought to realize ourselves vile and polluted, and, as no unclean thing can enter the kingdom of God,

Beebe, Elder Gilbert. Welsh Tract Publications - Elder Gilbert Beebe (pp. 5441-5442). Welsh Tract Publications. Kindle Edition.