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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.
TO THE READER.
Christian Reader.
AS there are two things which commend a place, the fruitfulness of the soil, and the pleasantness of the situation, the one suiting the necessities, and the other the comforts of life: So there are two things which commend a Book; the worthiness of the Matter therein handled, and the skilfulness of the hand that contrived it; upon both accounts this gracious Treatise justly deserveth with good men acceptation and value; The matter thereof, (viz.) ⟨image 8⟩The Doctrine of Regeneration being of most absolute necessity to the being of a Christian; and the manner of handling it being so quick and elegant, as cannot but convince the Judgement, and gratify the Palate of the most serious Reader: It being like the Land of Canaan full of milk and honey; a sweetness which doth both nourish and cleanse. And as once David did consecrate the Spoils of the Gentiles to the building of the Temple; So hath the Author adorned this his Spiritual Treatise with a sanctified application of many pertinent Histories in humane Authors, to the attempering thereof the better unto the most delicate minds.
AS there are two things which commend a place, the fruitfulness of the soil, and the pleasantness of the situation, the one suiting the necessities, and the other the comforts of life: So there are two things which commend a Book; the worthiness of the Matter therein handled, and the skilfulness of the hand that contrived it; upon both accounts this gracious Treatise justly deserveth with good men acceptation and value; The matter thereof, (viz.) ⟨image 8⟩The Doctrine of Regeneration being of most absolute necessity to the being of a Christian; and the manner of handling it being so quick and elegant, as cannot but convince the Judgement, and gratifie the Palate of the most serious Reader: It being like the Land of Canaan full of milk and honey; a sweetness which doth both nourish and cleanse. And as once David did consecrate the Spoils of the Gentiles to the building of the Temple; So hath the Authour adorned this his Spiritual Treatise with a sanctified application of many pertinent Histories in humane Authors, to the attempering thereof the better unto the most delicate minds.