The door of salvation opened by the key of regeneration

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⟩When the workman will make his building high and exact, he layeth the foundation deep and low.

God is not limited, he dealeth with men as he seeth good; it is his will (and that is reason enough) that all his children should not be brought forth with the same pain: He hath several medicines (whereof some are more sweet, others more sour) for the cure of their spiritual maladies, and he applieth them as it pleaseth him.

God is not limited, he dealeth with men as he seeth good; it is his will (and that is reason enough) that all his children should not be brought forth with the same pain: He hath several medicines (whereof some are more sweet, others more sowre) for the cure of their spiritual maladies, and he applieth them as it pleaseth him.

Now when the Spirit of God worketh most forcibly, then the man perceiveth it most sensibly: Besides, some men and women have had inclinations towards God and godliness ever since they came to any knowledge; they sucked the milk of grace betimes from the breasts of their parents, I mean their religious education: Obadiah feared the Lord from his youth, 1 Kings 18.12. Timothy from a child knew the holy Scriptures; The dews of grace were dropped from Heaven upon their souls early, in the morning of their age; and in such cases conversion, as to the time and manner of it, is under a cloud: For as he that is locked up in some dark dungeon, may easily discover the moment of time, when either the least beam of the Sun, or glimmering of day-light did break in upon him; whereas he that is always in the open air, is sensible that the day is broke, that the Sun is risen, but cannot tell you precisely when the day sprang, or the