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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.
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.
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 speakes not the reparation of one part, but the renovation of the whole man.
In the Confirmation of it there are likewise two things considerable;
1. The manner of the expression, Verily, verily.