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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.
Secondly, The Hypocrite is one who is with more difficulty then ordinary converted; Hypocrisy is like a fistula, which hath ⟨p. 120⟩a very small orifice, but many turnings and windings in the body (like coney-burrows) so that 'tis very hardly discerned and cured; this man seems to be what a Saint is indeed; and because he is like a godly man, performing the same duties, and forbearing the same iniquities, as to the external part, therefore he gathers, that he is one indeed; but he embraceth a cloud instead of Juno; he appeareth to be near the Kingdom of God, but never careth to come at it; as a parallel line, he keeps a scantling with the way of godliness, but never meeteth with it: There is some particular exception which this man hath taken against Christ and his ways, that though he may often cheapen, yet he seldom buyeth the pearl of price; he escapes storms and Pirates at Sea, and makes shipwreck in the Haven, where destruction is no less sure, but much more miserable; he escapes the gross lusts of Publicans and Harlots, and yet is further then both from eternal life.
Secondly, The Hypocrite is one who is with more difficulty then ordinary converted; Hypocrisie is like a fistula, which hath ⟨p. 120⟩a very small orifice, but many turnings and windings in the body (like coney-burrows) so that 'tis very hardly discerned and cured; this man seems to be what a Saint is indeed; and because he is like a godly man, performing the same duties, and forbearing the same iniquities, as to the external part, therefore he gathers, that he is one indeed; but he embraceth a cloud instead of Juno; he appeareth to be near the Kingdom of God, but never careth to come at it; as a parallel line, he keeps a scantling with the way of godliness, but never meeteth with it: There is some particular exception which this man hath taken against Christ and his ways, that though he may often cheapen, yet he seldom buyeth the pearl of price; he escapes storms and Pirats at Sea, and makes shiprack in the Haven, where destruction is no less sure, but much more miserable; he escapes the gross lusts of Publicans and Harlots, and yet is further then both from eternal life.