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Prima the first things, in reference to the middle and last things
Prima the first things, in reference to the middle and last things: or, the doctrine of regeneration, the new birth, the very beginning of a godly life. Delivered by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire.
London: printed by J.F. for I.A., 1650
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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This Except is without exception, for unless we are new born, there is no going to Heaven: before we live here we are born, and before we live there we are new born; as no man comes into this world, but by the first birth, so impossible it is that any should go to Heaven in another world, but by the second birth: And this gives us the necessity of Regeneration.
THis Except is without exception, for unless we are new born, there is no going to Heaven: before we live here we are born, and before we live there we are new born; as no man comes into this world, but by the first birth, so impossible it is that any should go to Heaven in another world, but by the second birth: And this gives us the necessity of Regeneration.
Except a man be new born, Doct. he can never be saved. It is our Saviours speech, and he confirms it with a double asseveration, Verily, verily, I say unto thee. Twice verily, which we find not any where but in S. Johns Gospel, 1and no where in the Gospel so oft as on this argument: how then should we disbelieve this truth, where we have such a witness as Christ, such a testimony as his Verily, verily, I say unto thee?
Except a man be new born, Doct. he can never be saved. It is our Saviors speech, and he confirms it with a double asseveration, Verily, verily, I say unto thee. Twice verily, which we finde not any where but in S. Johns Gospel, 1and no where in the Gospel so oft as on this argument: how then should we disbelieve this truth, where we have such a witness as Christ, such a testimony as his Verily, verily, I say unto thee?