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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.
Never did prisoner more ardently desire to be rid of his fetters, then this Saint to be freed from subjection to his sins: The distressed Jews did not groan so much under their Egyptian slavery, as this true Israelite for spiritual liberty; O wretched man that I am, saith he, who shall deliver me from this body of sin and death? Rom. 7.29. His great end, and endeavour in every providence and every Ordinance, is, not the repression but the ruin of this evil of sin. If the Sun of mercy shine warm upon him, he makes use of it to put out the kitchen fire of wickedness: When God solaceth his spirit with extraordinary kindness, the sacrifice of thanksgiving that he offereth up is the beast of some sin, ⟨p. 157⟩which he layeth on the Altar, and poureth forth its blood before the Lord: When the storm of affliction ariseth, he enquireth for the Jonah which raised the tempest, and endeavoureth that he may be cast over-board, and drowned.
Never did prisoner more ardently desire to be rid of his fetters, then this Saint to be freed from subjection to his sins: The distressed Jews did not groan so much under their Egyptian slavery, as this true Israelite for spiritual liberty; O wretched man that I am, saith he, who shall deliver me from this body of sin and death? Rom. 7.29. His great end, and endeavor in every providence and every Ordinance, is, not the repression but the ruine of this evil of sin. If the Sun of mercy shine warm upon him, he makes use of it to put out the kitchin fire of wickedness: When God folaceth his spirit with extraordinary kindness, the sacrifice of thanksgiving that he offereth up is the beast of some sin, ⟨p. 157⟩which he layeth on the Altar, and poureth forth its blood before the Lord: When the storm of affliction ariseth, he enquireth for the Jonah which raised the tempest, and endeavoureth that he may be cast over-board, and drowned.
And as he makes use of divine Providences, so likewise of divine Ordinances, for the weakening his corruptions.