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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.
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.
Ahab humbled himself under the threatening of God, but like a Fox in a trap he looked sadly, merely to get out; for at the same time he was an enemy to God, and quickly after went up to Ramoth Gilead in defiance of him, 1 King. 21, 22. chap.
Ahab humbled himself under the threatning of God, but like a Fox in a trap he looked sadly, meerly to get out; for at the same time he was an enemy to God, and quickly after went up to Ramoth Gilead in defiance of him, 1 King. 21, 22. chap.
It may be thou hast had some pang of conviction, which like a qualm hath come over thy stomach, and made thee sick a little at present; but thou dost by the strong water of some carnal contentment settle it again; the bad humours of thy lusts were only stirred, not vomited up. Judas had a great gash in his soul, and yet not one drop of his bad blood let out He was tortured at the heart by legal attrition, but not turned unto holiness by Evangelical contrition; his heart was only battered as lead by the hammer, not bettered, or melted by the fire, to be cast into Gods mould,