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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.
Creeds do not make Christians; nor are opinions, be they never so new, signs of new affections; rather è contra. Divisions and side-takings do rather speak a brutish and grazing (as Nebuchadnezzar's) then a gracious heart. 1How many persons were there in the days of Christ, who differed from others in their principles! The very Scribes and Pharisees differed in some things, the Essenes differed from them both, the Sadducees from all three, the Herodians from all the former; yea the difference amongst many of them was so wide that they could not meet together in divine worship; now how weak had it been for either of these from their dividing from men on earth, to have inferred their dwelling with God in Heaven? When for ought I know, he must go beyond them all, that will be saved, Mat. 5.20.
Creeds do not make Christians; nor are opinions, be they never so new, signs of new affections; rather è contra. Divisions and side-takings do rather speak a brutish and grazing (as Nebuchadnezzar's) then a gracious heart. 1How many persons were there in the days of Christ, who differed from others in their principles! The very Scribes and Pharisees differed in some things, the Essenes differed from them both, the Sadduces from all three, the Herodians from all the former; yea the difference amongst many of them was so wide that they could not meet together in divine worship; now how weak had it been for either of these from their dividing from men on earth, to have inferd their dwelling with God in Heaven? When for ought I know, he must go beyond them all, that will be saved, Mat. 5.20.
- 1Godw. Jew. Antiq. lib. 1.Godw. Iew. Antiq. lib. 1.