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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.
Gods precepts speak it possible; God requireth of his people such things as would be to no purpose, if they could not be assured of their grace and purity: He commandeth to examine themselves, whether they ⟨p. 150⟩are in the faith or no, 2 Cor. 13.5. Now to what purpose or end should the Law of God be produced, the persons heart and life compared with it, witnesses be examined, the man thus arraigned in the Court of Conscience, if the matter in debate could not be brought to an issue, if it could not be known whether he be sanctified or not? God bids us make our callings and elections sure, 2 Pet. 1.10. therefore they may be ensured: We are enjoined to pray with confidence, and to call God Father, Heb. 10.22. Matth. 6.9. which certainly none can do, if none can know that they are his children.
Gods precepts speak it possible; God requireth of his people such things as would be to no purpose, if they could not be assured of their grace and purity: He commandeth to examine themselves, whether they ⟨p. 150⟩are in the faith or no, 2 Cor. 13.5. Now to what purpose or end should the Law of God be produced, the persons heart and life compared with it, witnesses be examined, the man thus arreigned in the Court of Conscience, if the matter in debate could not be brought to an issue, if it could not be known whether he be sanctified or not? God bids us make our callings and elections sure, 2 Pet. 1.10. therefore they may be ensured: We are enjoyned to pray with confidence, and to call God Father, Heb. 10.22. Matth. 6.9