A94157:55
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.
First, An Affirmation, or the necessity of Regeneration, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.
Secondly, Its confirmation or the certainty of that assertion; Verily, verily, I say unto thee.
In the Affirmation we may take notice of two particulars;
1. The universality of the persons, A Man, that is every man; the proposition is indefinite, and so equivalent to one that is universal.
2. The quality of the thing affirmed, Be born again; mending will not serve, the whole man must be new made; Non unius partis correctionem, sed totius naturae renovationem designat, saith Calvin, It speaks not the reparation of one part, but the renovation of the whole man.