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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
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.
A raker in Privies is not fit for a Kings presence, but Regeneration prepareth the soul (by purifying it) for heaven, it maketh the creature meet for the inheritance of the Saints in light Col. 1.12. We scald and ⟨p. 46⟩season vessels with hot water, and thereby fit and prepare them to hold wine, or some precious liquor: so God seasoneth the soul with grace, and thereby prepareth it for glory. Grace and glory differ not specifically, but gradually grace is aetas infantilis gloriae, as learned Davenant calleth it the infancy of glory. Glory is the maturity or full growth of grace the same state is an higher stature: grace is glory inchoate, glory is grace consummate; therefore as clothes by lighter colours are fitted to receive a deep scarlet die, so Christians by grace or Regeneration are prepared for glory and salvation.
A raker in Privies is not fit for a Kings presence, but Regeneration prepareth the soul (by purifying it) for heaven, it maketh the creature meet for the inheritance of the Saints in light Col. 1.12. We scald and ⟨p. 46⟩season vessels with hot water, and thereby fit and prepare them to hold wine, or some precious liquour: so God seasoneth the soul with grace, and thereby prepareth it for glory. Grace and glory differ not specifically, but gradually grace is aetas infantilis gloriae, as learned Davenant calleth it the infancy of glory. Glory is the maturity or full growth of grace the same state is an higher stature: grace is glory inchoate, glory is grace consummate; therefore as cloaths by lighter colours are fitted to receive a deep scarlet die, so Christians by grace or Regeneration are prepared for glory and salvation.
The Grammar teacheth the Scholar to construe and pierce, and that fitteth him in time for the University. Regeneration teacheth the Christian, what mediate Communion with God meaneth, and that fitteth for immediate Communion. Regeneration makes us capable of the beatifical vision,