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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 Door of Salvation OPENED, BY THE Key of Conversion.
JOHN 3.3. Jesus answered and said unto him Verily, verily I say unto thee Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God
AS Isaiah is called the Evangelical Prophet because he doth so lively describe and foretell the death of Christ; so John may not unfitly be called the Prophetical Evangelist; for though in his Epistles he shows himself an Apostle, in his Gospel an Evangelist, yet in his Revelation ⟨p. 2⟩he is a Prophet. The Ancients do aptly ascribe the Eagle to him for his Ensign; because when the other Evangelists begin with the Mediators Incarnation and Humanity, proving him to be the Son of Man; he doth at first fly out of sight, and beginneth with the Saviours Deity, proving him to be the Son of God. And his whole Gospel indeed is a demonstration of Christs Divinity, which was occasioned (as Ecclesiastical Historians record) by the heresy of Ebion and Cerinthus, who denied it.
AS Isaiah is called the Evangelical Prophet because he doth so lively describe and foretel the death of Christ; so John may not unfitly be called the Prophetical Evangelist; for though in his Epistles he shews himself an Apostle, in his Gospel an Evangelist, yet in his Revelation ⟨p. 2⟩