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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.
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?
- 1Rupert. in loc.