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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.
The first subject of Consideration, The misery of the unregenerate, matchless, endless.
First, Consider the misery which thou liest under, or art liable to, whilst thou art unregenerate.
FIrst, Consider the misery which thou liest under, or art liable to, whilst thou art unregenerate.
And were I but able to charge and discharge this great gun fully, it might probably fire thee out of all thy sinful holds, and force thee to seek unto Christ for help. But as the Roman said of his fellow-Citizen, That he was beyond all expressions wicked; so may I say of thee, that thou art beyond not only all expressions, but all conceptions wretched. No ink is black enough to describe those dismal clouds of fury under which thou livest in this world! But O, what tongue can tell the thousandth part of those fiery torments, to which thou art liable in the other world!
While thou livest thou art a cursed sinner, and when thou diest, thou shalt be a damned creature.