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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.
A vessel of wine is troubled by being removed, but the Lees remaining, it retaineth and quickly returneth to its former savour; some smarting Providence, or searching Ordinance, may remove and ⟨p. 101⟩trouble thee for a time; but thy unsanctified heart remaining, thou wilt return to thy former savour; like Moab, thou mayst be settled on thy lees, and not emptied from vessel to vessel, therefore thy taste remaineth, and thy sense is not changed, Jer. 48.11.
A vessel of wine is troubled by being removed, but the Lees remaining, it retaineth and quickly returneth to its former savour; some smarting Providence, or searching Ordinance, may remove and ⟨p. 101⟩trouble thee for a time; but thy unsanctified heart remaining, thou wilt return to thy former savor; like Moab, thou mayst be stttled on thy lees, and not emptied from vessel to vessel, therefore thy taste remaineth, and thy sense is not changed, Jer. 48.11.
There are two words used by the Holy Ghost for repentance [Greek or Hebrew], Matth 27.3. 1and [Greek or Hebrew], 2 Tim. 2.25. the former signifieth sorrow for a fault committed, the latter After-wit, a change of the mind, or making wise for the future. The former may be in the unregenerate; but as they say of Castor and Pollux, if they are divided they are ominous and fatal; so say I of these, if lamenting sins past be not joined with loathing and leaving sin for the time to come, it is not repentance unto life. Some by their repentance think they get a new privilege to sin; as that Lewis of France who would swear and then kiss his crucifix; swear again, and kiss it again; and as the Drunkard gives himself a vomit, and then he is the fitter and freer to fall to his cups again; thus some mens sorrow is a message sent to heaven, to entreat leave that they may sin; but this is far from the sorrow which is never to be sorrowed for.