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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.
Reader, Try thy self by this touchstone; art thou an heavenly Merchant to engross spiritual commodities to thy self? or art thou desirous that others should share with thee? Is the voice of thy heart like Cains? ⟨p. 192⟩Am I my brothers keeper? or like Moses, Would God that all the Lords people were Prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them? Canst thou stand •y and see others lose their God, and Christ, and souls for ever, and not be at all troubled, so thy stakes are saved? 1or dost thou with Darius labour hard to keep poor creatures from the roaring lion? and with Abraham pray heartily that poor Sodomites may be preserved from fire and brimstone? Is it all one to thee whether thy neighbours and relations sink or swim, be sinners or Saints, be saved or damned? truly then its a sign thou art not born of God; for wert thou his son, thou wouldst endeavour by thy prayers, pattern and precepts, to raise up seed to thine elder brother Jesus Christ.
Reader, Try thy self by this touchstone; art thou an heavenly Merchant to ingross spiritual commodities to thy self? or art thou desirous that others should share with thee? Is the voyce of thy heart like Cains? ⟨p. 192⟩Am I my brothers keeper? or like Moses, Would God that all the Lords people were Prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them? Canst thou stand •y and see others lose their God, and Christ, and souls for ever, and not be at all troubled, so thy stakes are saved? 1or dost thou with Darius labour hard to keep poor creatures from the roaring lion? and with Abraham pray heartily that poor Sodomites may be preserved from fire and brimstone? Is it all one to thee whether thy neighbors and relations sink or swim, be sinners or Saints, be saved or damned? truly then its a sign thou art not born of God; for wert thou his son, thou wouldst endeavour by thy prayers, pattern and precepts, to raise up seed to thine elder brother Jesus Christ.