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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.
6. It will teach thee the knowledge of Eternity, though indeed this Lesson will be ever learning by thee, and never learned: Thou shalt suffer the vengeance of eternal fire, Jude v. 7. and be tormented day and night for ever and ever, Rev. 14.10.
Thou wouldst not burn an whole year, no not one day in one of thy Kitchen fires for a Kingdom. But O then thou shalt be in a ten thousand times hotter fire, and for ever. Ah! Who can dwell in everlasting burnings! who can endure unquenchable flame! Isa. 33.14.
Thou wouldst not burn an whole year, no not one day in one of thy Kitchin fires for a Kingdom. But O then thou shalt be in a ten thousand times hotter fire, and for ever. Ah! Who can dwell in everlasting burnings! who can endure unquenchable flame! Isa. 33.14.
It is written of the Lord Chancellor Egerton, that going through Westminster Hall in Term time he saw written upon the wall (by one that was fearful he should be oppressed by a potent Adversary) Tanquam non reversurus, as though he should never return more: Truly, when thou art once cast into that prison, thou shalt never come out; As the cloud is consumed and washed away; so he that goeth down into Hell returneth no more, Job 7.9. The worm there dieth not, and the fire there never goeth out; there is blackness of darkness for ever: The smoke of thy torments will ascend for ever and ever,