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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.
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.