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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.
Thus Reader, Regeneration is the vessel, in which all that thou art worth, not for this present perishing, but for the other everlasting world is ventured; if that be sound, thine endless welfare is safe; if that be feigned and lame, thou art lost for ever. How canst thou take any comfort in the abundance of fading creatures, whilst thy All, thine Eternity is in danger! O go to the Ensuring Office, bring thy riches, thy silver to the balance of the Sanctuary, and thereby try whether it hath its full weight.
Thus Reader, Regeneration is the vessell, in which all that thou art worth, not for this present perishing, but for the other everlasting world is ventured; if that be sound, thine endless welfare is safe; if that be feigned and lame, thou art lost for ever. How caust thou take any comfort in the abundance of fading creatures, whilst thy All, thine Eternity is in danger! O go to the Ensuring Office, bring thy riches, thy silver to the ballance of the Sanctuary, and thereby try whether it hath its full weight.
Man, what sayest thou to this reason for self examination? is it not of unspeakable weight? and I shall show thee that tis of unquestionable truth. Doth not the living God tell thee that except thou art born again, thou shall not see his Kingdom? Doth he not say expressly that without are dogs? Rev. 22.15. The fathers house is only for children; Dogs must be without doors. Pharaohs court admitted of vermin; but I can assure that Gods will not; Into it can in no wise enter any thing that is defiled or unclean, Rev. 21. ult. Impure persons can never get into the most holy place. Heaven must be in thee, before thou canst be in heaven. It was a good inscription, which a bad man wrote on the door of his house, Per me nihil intret mali. Let no evil pass through me: whereupon said Diogenes, Quomodo ingredietur dominus. How then shall the Master ⟨p. 136⟩get into his own house? That inscription without question agreeth with the celestial habitation; There is nothing there but what is holy. The Creator is essentially, infinitely and eternally holy; the father is holy,