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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
Dedication: To the right worshipful Sir Charles Herboard Knight, To the Worshipful Richard Franklin…
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.
Thirdly, Make sure of Regeneration; be never satisfied, till ye can upon Scripture grounds affirm that your natures are regenerated. This, this is the one thing necessary, Your All hangs upon this hinge. If this be not done, ye are undone, undone eternally. All your profession, civility, privileges, gifts, duties are cyphers, and signify nothing unless Regeneration be the figure put before them. It is Regeneration that will make you the sons of God, the members of Christ, the temples of the Spirit, that will give you an holy improvement, of all providences, a right to all the promises, and at last the purchased possession. It is Regeneration that will teach you to live like men, like Christians, like Angels in the love and fruition of the infinitely blessed God. O the price of this pearl is not known in this beggarly world!
Thirdly, Make sure of Regeneration; be never satisfyed, till ye can upon Scripture grounds affirme that your natures are regenerated. This, this is the one thing necessary, Your All hangs upon this hinge. If this be not done, ye are undone, undone eternally. All your profession, civility, priviledges, guifts, duties are cyphers, and signify nothing unless Regeneration be the figure put before them. It is Regeneration that will make you the sons of God, the members of Christ, the temples of the Spirit, that will give you an holy improvement, of all providences, a right to all the promises, and at last the purchased possession. It is Regeneration that will teach you to live like men, like Christians, like Angels in the love and fruition of the infinitely blessed God. O the price of this pearl is not known in this beggerly world!
A grave and wise Counsellor of France (being desirous in his old age, to retire himself) was entreated by the King, to write down some directions, and leave with him for the more prosperous government of his Realm. The Counsellor took some paper, and wrote on the top, Moderation; in the middle, Moderation; at the bottom, Moderation; Demosthenes being asked what was the chief thing in an Orator, answered Elocution; and being demanded the same question three times, what made an Orator, he still gave the same answer. 1