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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.
I say unto thee] I who am the Prophet of my Church, 1the Teacher sent from God, the true and faithful witness, fer whom it is impossible to lie, I deliver thee this doctrine as a certain unquestionable truth, that unless thou hast a new being, it had been better for thee to have had no being; for thou canst never see the Kingdom of God.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew].〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
Except a man] Let him pretend never so much, 1let his performances be never so many, let his privileges be never so great, and his profession never so glorious, yet if he be not born again all these will do him little good, for he can never see the Kingdom of God. The assertion as I hinted before, is general; as every man is born of the flesh, so every man must be born of the spirit, or it had been happy for them if they had never been born.
Except a man] Let him pretend never so much, 1let his performances be never so many, let his priviledges be never so great, and his profession never so glorious, yet if he be not born again all these will do him little good, for he can never see the Kingdom of God. The assertion as I hinted before, is general; as every man is born of the flesh, so every man must be born of the spirit, or it had been happy for them if they had never been born.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]〈non-Latin alphabet〉