The door of salvation opened by the key of regeneration

Or possibly thou art one of the new-fangled opinionists of our unhappy times that are above Ordinances. I must tell thee, That to live above Ordinances, is to live below ⟨p. 183⟩a Saint. He that doth not reckon the means of Grace his greatest privilege on this side the place of Glory, may well question whether ever he enjoyed God in them: methinks the beggar should know that door again at which he had a large alms, a full bait, James 1.18, 19. 1 Pet. 2.2, 3, 4. A child indeed may forbear his meat either in a fit of sullenness, or under some disease; but if he be a child, his dogged fit will be over, he will get the mastery of his distemper, and fall to his food again.

Or possibly thou art one of the new-fangled opinionists of our unhappy times that are above Ordinances. I must tell thee, That to live above Ordinances, is to live below ⟨p. 183⟩a Saint. He that doth not reckon the means of Grace his greatest priviledge on this side the place of Glory, may well question whether ever he enjoyed God in them: methinks the begger should know that door again at which he had a large alms, a full bait, James 1.18, 19. 1 Pet. 2.2, 3, 4. A childe indeed may forbear his meat either in a fit of sullenness, or under some disease; but if he be a childe, his dogged fit will be over, he will get the mastery of his distemper, and fall to his food again.

Secondly, The new-born creature groweth in Grace; the picture of a child groweth not, but a living child doth: After generation followeth augmentation; the same word which breeds the new man, feeds him, and enables him to grow thereby,