The door of salvation opened by the key of regeneration

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, 1 Pet. 2.2. As the same blood, of which the babe is bred in the womb, strikes up into the mothers breasts, and by a further concoction becometh milk, and so nourisheth it: The good seed of the word falling into the foil of an honest heart, makes it abundant in the work of the Lord: Common Grace, sometimes like Joshua's Sun, standeth still; but usually like the dial of Ahaz, it goeth ten degrees backward; when special grace, like the morning light, shineth brighter and brighter to perfect day, Prov. 4.18. First, the blade, next, the ear, then the full corn: first, they who are begotten of God, become little children, next ⟨p. 184⟩young men, then old men and fathers, 1 Joh. 2.1, 12, 13, 14.

Secondly, The new-born creature groweth in Grace; the picture of a childe groweth not, but a living childe doth: After generation followeth augmentation; the same word which breeds the new man, feeds him, and enables him to grow thereby, 1 Pet. 2.2. As the same blood, of which the babe is bred in the womb, strikes up into the mothers breasts, and by a further concoction becometh milk, and so nourisheth it: The good seed of the word falling into the foil of an honest heart, makes it abundant in the work of the Lord: Common Grace, sometimes like Joshua's Sun, standeth still; but usually like the dial of Ahaz, it goeth ten degrees backward; when special grace, like the morning light, shineth brighter and brighter to perfect day, Prov. 4.18. First, the blade, next, the ear, then the full corn: first, they who are begotten of God, become little children, next ⟨p. 184⟩young men, then old men and fathers,