The door of salvation opened by the key of regeneration

Thirdly, This doctrine may be useful by way of exhortation, and that to two sorts of persons.

THirdly, This doctrine may be useful by way of exhortation, and that to two sorts of persons.

1. To the unregenerate: If without regeneration men and women can never obtain salvation, then it exhorteth thee, Reader, if in a state of nature, to mind and labour for this second birth, as ever thou wouldst escape the second death. Dost thou not perceive by the word the living God, That except thou art converted, thou canst in no wise enter into the Kingdom of God! Matth. 18.3. Alas! what then is like to be thy case, shouldst thou die in this condition? Assure thy self, that all thy Friends and Lands, honours and pleasures; yea, all the help which this whole world can afford thee, cannot keep thee one quarter of an hour out of Hell.

1. To the unregenerate: If without regeneration men and women can never obtain salvation, then it exhorteth thee, Reader, if in a state of nature, to minde and labor for this second birth, as ever thou wouldst escape the second death. Dost thou not perceive by the word the living God, That except thou art converted, thou canst in no wise enter into the Kingdom of God! Matth. 18.3. Alas! what then is like to be thy case, shouldst thou die in this condition? Assure thy self, that all thy Friends and Lands, honors and pleasures; yea, all the help which this whole world can afford thee, cannot keep thee one quarter of an hour out of Hell.

This Law, this standing Law of Heaven, That except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God, is like the Law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be altered; By their Law, That which was written in the Kings Name, and sealed with the Kings seal, might no man reverse,