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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.
3. It will teach thee the woeful nature and fruits of sin. Now thou canst mock at mischief, and sport with sin, as if it were nothing: but Good Lord! what thoughts wilt thou have of thy most pleasurable wickedness, in the other world, when the sensual delightful streams thereof shall be dried up with the scorching heat of Gods wrath, and nothing left but the mud of horror and vexation! Sin dogs thee up and down all the while thou livest, as the Fowler doth the flying bird, (conscience will ever now and then give thee a gripe, have a fling at thee whether thou wilt or no) but when the bird settles, then the gun goeth off; so when thou art settled in thine own place, then expect the murdering piece. After thy death, the vermin of thy lusts will ⟨p. 233⟩crawl in thee, and feed upon thee.
3. It will teach thee the woful nature and fruits of sin. Now thou canst mock at mischief, and sport with sin, as if it were nothing: but Good Lord! what thoughts wilt thou have of thy most pleasureable wickedness, in the other world, when the sensual delightful streams thereof shall be dried up with the scorching heat of Gods wrath, and nothing left but the mud of horror and vexation! Sin dogs thee up and down all the while thou livest, as the Fowler doth the flying bird, (conscience will ever now and then give thee a gripe, have a fling at thee whether thou wilt or no) but when the bird settles, then the gun goeth off; so when thou art settled in thine own place, then expect the murthering piece. After thy death, the vermin of thy lusts will ⟨p. 233⟩crawl in thee, and feed upon thee.
Thou shalt see all thy millions of sins like an Army set in order, and marshalled in rank and file before thine eyes, and every one with their envenomed arrows, poisonous bullets, and wounding weapons set in array against thee. First, Original sin, the Commander in chief, marcheth up in the front; after that, thine innumerable actual transgressions, thy carnal-mindedness, unbelief, pride, adultery, hypocrisy, drunkenness, swearing, lying, malice, hatred, envy, unrighteousness, atheism, blasphemy, profanation of the Lords-day, undutifulness to parents, unthankfulness for mercies, unprofitableness under the means of Grace, incorrigibleness under afflictions, thy secret, private, public sins; thy omissions, commissions, thy personal, relative sins; all these, and many which thou now never thinkest of, shall let fly whole volleys of shot upon thee.