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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.
Thy joy may be a say of that which thou wilt not buy, as being loth to go to the price; and a taste of that on which thou shalt never make a full meal. The full bargain may not be driven between God and thy soul, and then thou canst not take this joy as an earnest or in part of payment.
Thy joy may be a say of that which thou wilt not buy, as being loth to go to the price; and a taste of that on which thou shalt never make a full meale. The full bargain may not be driven between God and thy soul, and then thou canst not take this joy as an earnest or in part of payment.
Thou mayst sigh and mourn for thy sins, and yet be unacquainted with godly sorrow. •t is not seldom that men hang down their ⟨p. 100⟩heads like bulrushes, when they are rooted in the mire of pollution.
Possibly under some sharp affliction, thou mayst cry out of thy corruptions, as the pig squeaks under the knife: So did Pharaoh, as metals melt in the fire (and harden out of it) but still unregenerate, Exod. 9.
Possibly under some sharp affliction, thou mayst cry out of thy corruptions, as the pig squeaks under the knife: So did Pharoah, as mettals melt in the fire (and harden out of it) but still unregenerate, Exod. 9.