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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.
All thine actions whether inward or outward, ⟨p. 221⟩whether worldly or religious, are all sinful and cursed; Like the Leper under the Law, thou taintest what ever thou touchest, and makest it unclean. Thy thoughts, the first-born of thy soul, and thy purest offspring are all vain; thine heart is a sink of sin, an ocean of corruption; and therefore is ever sending forth, and bubbling up mire and dirt; The imaginations and thoughts of thy heart are evil, only evil, and that continually, Gen. 6.9. Thy words are wicked, the inward wheels of thy spirit being disordered, the clock of thy tongue cannot strike true. The inward dunghill reeketh, and sendeth forth its stench much this way, Rom. 3.13, 14. Thy mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; The poison of Asps is under thy lips; thy throat is an open Sepulchre, like a grave, when opened, sending forth noisome and stinking exhalations.
All thine actions whether inward or outward, ⟨p. 221⟩whether worldly or religious, are all sinful and cursed; Like the Leper under the Law, thou taintest what ever thou touchest, and makest it unclean. Thy thoughts, the first-born of thy soul, and thy purest offspring are all vain; thine heart is a sink of sin, an ocean of corruption; and therefore is ever sending forth, and bubbling up mire and dirt; The imaginations and thoughts of thy heart are evil, only evil, and that continually, Gen. 6.9. Thy words are wicked, the inward wheels of thy spirit being disordered, the clock of thy tongue cannot strike true. The inward dunghil reaketh, and sendeth forth its stench much this way, Rom. 3.13, 14. Thy mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; The poison of Asps is under thy lips; thy throat is an open Sepulcre, like a grave, when opened, sending forth noisom and stinking exhalations.