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The door of salvation opened by the key of regeneration
The door of salvation opened by the key of regeneration: or A treatise containing the nature, necessity, marks and means of regeneration; as also the duty of the regenerate. / By George Swinnocke, M.A. and pastor of Rickmersworth in Hertfordshire.
London: printed by John Best for Tho. Parkhurst, 1661
THE Door of Salvation OPENED, BY THE Key of Conversion. › Doctrine
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.
In the soul I shall consider, 1 The Understanding to which the spirit of God makes its approach in the first place, enlightening it in the knowledge of sin and the Saviour, Eph. 4.23. The understanding to a man, is as a window to an house, which before being continually shut, and little light appearing, 'twas no wonder that the heart lay so sluttishly, and was so full of the deeds of darkness; but now God reneweth the soul in knowledge, after the image of him that created him. Col. 3.10. before the god of this world had blinded the mind that it could see neither the emptiness of the world, nor the preciousness of the word, nor the loathsomeness of sin, nor the loveliness of the Saviour, nor the vanity of the creature, nor the excellency of the Divine nature; but whereas the man was blind before, now he seeth; being made spiritual he judgeth all things, 1 Cor. 2.14.15. He judgeth the things of heaven ⟨p. 25⟩to be far better then the things of earth, the concernments of his soul much more worth then the concernments of his body; and the affairs of eternity far more precious then the rattles and trifles of time, and all by reason of the new sight bestowed on him. Satan truly carrieth men hoodwinked to hell, as Higglers carry their fowls in Dorsers to the City, where they are killed, that they cannot see one foot of the way, neither know they whether they are going; but God doth not carry men blindfold to bliss; but as in the old, so in the new creation he beginneth with light.
In the soul I shall cousider, 1 The Understanding to which the spirit of God makes its approach in the first place, inlightning it in the knowledge of sin and the Saviour, Eph. 4.23. The understanding to a man, is as a window to an house, which before being continually shut, and little light appearing, 'twas no wonder that the heart lay so sluttishly, and was so full of the deeds of darknesse; but now God reneweth the soul in knowledge, after the image of him that created him. Col. 3.10