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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.
And this man] is every man, and every part of man: It implies all men, for all are bound to it, and all man; for all the parts of his body, and all the powers of his soul are to be renewed, or he cannot be saved: The word then is general, whether we respect genera singulorum, the kinds, all men; or singula generum, the Individuums, all man, or all the parts of man, body and soul.
ANd this man] is every man, and every part of man: It implyes all men, for all are bound to it, and all man; for all the parts of his body, and all the powers of his soul are to be renewed, or he cannot be saved: The word then is general, whether we respect genera singulorum, the kindes, all men; or singula generum, the Individuums, all man, or all the parts of man, body and soul.
We will first begin with the kinds: Doct. 1 All men (or all mankind) must be regenerated before they be saved; not one of all the sons of Adam that shall ever go to heaven, except he be born again: may your contemplations (guided by Gods word) go into that Paradise above, there walk the streets, behold the towers, view the subjects, from the one end of heaven to another, and whom find you there? Not one that lives and dyes in sin; there is not in it, nor shall enter into it any thing that defileth, 1neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lye, Revel. 21.27. yet if such repent them of their sins, the gates shall not be shut against them, all the Saints that now walk in the light of it, were sinners; but first they were purged by the Lamb, and sanctified by the Spirit; first they were regenerated, and so they were saved.
We will first begin with the kindes: Doct. 1 All men (or all mankinde) must be regenerated before they be saved; not one of all the sons of Adam that shall ever go to heaven, except he be born again: may your contemplations (guided by Gods word) go into that Paradise above, there walk the streets, behold the towers, view the subjects, from the one end of heaven to another, and whom finde you there? Not one that lives and dyes in sin; there is not in it, nor shall enter into it any thing that defileth,