The door of salvation opened by the key of regeneration

Extraordinary and strange things are called new, Acts 17.19. Jer. 31.22. Well may the Convert be called a new creature, the work of Conversion making such a wonderful alteration, that carnal men admire it: They think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, 1 Pet. 4.3, 4. nay those that are thus renewed, wonder at themselves, Being called out of darkness into his marvellous light, 1 Pet. 2.9. Woeful darkness makes it wonderful light: As a man that hath been all his days kept in a dark prison and never beheld the Sun, when he cometh to be set at liberty, and see the light, he stands amazed, wondering at it.

Extraordinary and strange things are called new, Acts 17.19. Jer. 31.22. Well may the Convert be called a new creature, the work of Conversion making such a wonderful alteration, that carnall men admire it: They think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excesse of riot, 1 Pet. 4.3, 4. nay those that are thus renewed, wonder at themselves, Being called out of darknesse into his marvellous light, 1 Pet. 2.9. Wofull darknesse makes it wonderfull light: As a man that hath been all his dayes kept in a dark prison and never beheld the Sun, when he cometh to be set at liberty, and see the light, he stands amazed, wondering at it.

2 The Subject (I call it a renewing of) the whole man: As in our fist birth, not one part or member is born, but every one: so in our second birth the whole man is new born. By our first birth the whole man is polluted, and therefore by our second birth the whole man must be purified. Original sin defileth the whole man, from the crown of the head to the soles of the feet; and Regeneration refineth the whole man,