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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.
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, Esth. 8.8. Friend, is not this written, not only in the name, but with the very hand of the King of Kings, (I say unto thee) and sealed with his own seal, Verily, verily? and doest thou think, poor worm to reverse it, to turn the truth of the Eternal God into a lie: I tell thee, ⟨p. 199⟩(and I would speak it with reverence to the highest Majesty) that God himself cannot do it. 'Tis his perfection, that it is impossible for him to lye, Tit. 1.2. His hand cannot but make good, what his mouth hath spoken. His will and word have joined regeneration and salvation together, and his faithfulness and truth will not suffer them to be parted asunder. Therefore think of it timely, and turn to God truly; otherwise there is a necessity of thy perishing everlastingly.
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, Esth. 8.8. Friend, is not this written, not onely in the name, but with the very hand of the King of Kings, (I say unto thee) and sealed with his own seal, Verily, verily? and doest thou think, poor worm to reverse it, to turn the truth of the Eternal God into a lie: I tell thee, ⟨p. 199⟩(and I would speak it with reverence to the highest Majesty) that God himself cannot do it. 'Tis his perfection, that it is impossible for him to lye, Tit. 1.2. His hand cannot but make good, what his mouth hath spoken. His will and word have joyned regegeration and salvation together, and his faithfulness and truth will not suffer them to be parted asunder. Therefore think of it timely, and turn to God truly; otherwise there is a necessity of thy perishing everlastingly.