Matthew Poole and continuators on Colossians 3:10

10 And have put on the new man , which is renewed in knowledge , after the image of him that created him .

(2) Vivification or renovation this he con[illegible: 1 letter]exeth with the former, continuing the metaphor, as in natural generation the expulsion of the old form is attended with the introduction of the new, so in spiritual Regeneration, having put off the old Adam they had put on the new, i. e. Christ not onely sacramentally, c. 2.12, 13. Gal. 3.27. but really, being new creatures in Christ Jesus, 2 Cor. 5.17. Eph. 2.10. renewed in the inner man, Rom. 7.22, 2 Cor. 4.16. see on Eph. 3.16. & 4.24. and endowed with a new frame of heart and a new spirit, Ezek. 11.19. Ioh. 3.5, 6. new qualities and affections.

The understanding being savingly enlightened and the will powerfully inclined by the victorious working of the spirit, Eph. 1.18, 19, 20. see on Eph. 4.23. with Phil. 2.13. 2 Thess. 2.13, 14. and brought to more than a speculative, even to a lively and affectual knowledge, 1 Ioh. 2, 3.

Agreeable to the impress of him that had new framed or created them in Christ Jesus, 1 Cor. 15.49. 1 Pet. 1.15, 16. by the renewing of the holy Ghost, Tit. 3.5. for as the natural image of God consisted in knowledge and righteousness; so it was requisite that the spiritual image restored by grace should consist in the rectifying of the faculties of the Soul, the understanding with spiritual knowledge, and the will with a spiritual inclination to imbrace the things that please God. In communion with whom sanctified souls do take in hand a new course of life, and move therein, in a spiritually natural way.