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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.
Some have been infamous for pleasure in sin, and such are usually made more apprehensive of the pain due to sinners; God bringeth all home by weeping cross, but them especially that have been most wicked: The Physician is forced to give strong physic to such sturdy strong patients, otherwise it will not work: A man that is an old sinner, is like one that hath had a bone long out of joint, and its festered, this man must feel much pain before it be brought into its right place.
Some have been infamous for pleasure in sin, and such are usually made more apprehensive of the pain due to sinners; God bringeth all home by weeping cross, but them especially that have been most wicked: The Physician is forced to give strong physick to such sturdy strong patients, otherwise it will not work: A man that is an old finner, is like one that hath had a bone long out of joynt, and its festered, this man must feel much pain before it be brought into its right place.
Sometimes God intendeth to list a soul high with spiritual consolations, and to prepare it for them, he layeth it low with legal humiliation: We throw the ball hard against the ground, when we intend that it shall bound high; Paul was forcibly cast to the earth, before he was favourably caught up to the third heaven.
Sometimes God intendeth to list a soul high with spiritual consolations, and to prepare it for them, he layeth it low with legal humiliation: We throw the ball hard against the ground, when we intend that it shall bound high; Paul was forcibly cast to the earth, before he was favorably caught up to the third heaven.
Some are designed to be high in holiness, eminent patterns of piety to others, and such are often filled with sorrow, and do more then others feel the smart of sin: ⟨p. 148⟩