The door of salvation opened by the key of regeneration

Thy salvation or damnation lieth on thy escaping this deceit, and the presumption, security, and impenitency, that are its consequents; For this end, thou hast the plain directions of Gods word, the frequent warnings, the close convictions, the fervent exhortations of his Ministers: If the Spirit set in, and these prevail, and thou give up thy self unreservedly to the Lord, thou art a happy man, and hath received the beginning of life eternal. Regeneration must give thee a new nature, suitable ⟨image 13⟩to the heavenly Doctrines and duties, propounded in the holy Scriptures, or else they will seem strange and toilsome things, and thou wilt savour them no more then thy food when thou art sick. Till thou art Regenerate, and hast a new heart and Spirit, thou wilt still disrelish those saving truths that call thee higher, and put the upon self-denial and a holy life; especially when they are closely applied to thee for these ends: Thou wilt disrelish all spiritual prayers and conference, especially when they discover and condemn thy unsanctified carnal state: And thou wilt secretly or openly have a malignant distaste or opposition against the Regenerate, that live by that renewing sanctifying Spirit, to which thou art a stranger, and wilt look on them as a people that condemn thee by their lives, unless thou canst cheat thy self into a persuasion, that they are but a company of singular, proud, self-conceited people, and really no otherwise regenerate then thy self. And all the Religion and wisdom and good •arriage, which thou hast, without this spiritual change, may easily be thy delusion, but will never serve for thy Salvation, yea heaven it self would be to thee no heaven, if it were set open to thee, and thou hadst not the heavenly nature, to suit to the heavenly employment and felicity. This is the business of a converting and confirming Ministry, ⟨image 14⟩and of the spirit and grace that works by them; and this is the business that above other business, lieth upon thee in this present world:

Thy salvation or damnation lieth on thy escaping this deceit, and the presumption, security, and impenitencie, that are its consequents; For this end, thou hast the plain directions of Gods word, the frequent warnings, the close convictions, the fervent exhortations of his Ministers: If the Spirit set in, and these prevaile, and thou give up thy self unreservedly to the Lord, thou art a happy man, and hath received the beginning of life eternall. Regeneration must give thee a new nature, suitable