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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.
2 The Kingdom of Glory hereafter, 1 Thess. 2.12. Now except a man be born again he can have no right to the privileges of the Kingdom of Grace, nor to the possession of the Kingdom of Glory.
2 The Kingdom of Glory hereafter, 1 Thess. 2.12. Now except a man be born again he can have no right to the priviledges of the Kingdom of Grace, nor to the possession of the Kingdom of Glory.
The Text being thus briefly explained, I shall glean some few ears by the way, before I come to the full sheaf; which will afford, through the blessing of God much spiritual food to our souls.
1. Observe, That Christ is very willing to instruct them that come to him, notwithstanding their many weaknesses.
Nicodemus was short in his confession of Christ, and faulty in his coming to him only by night; yet the meek Master overlooketh this, and presently falls upon teaching his untoward Scholar. The tender Father doth not turn his weak child out of doors, but lends him his helping hand whereby he might be enabled to go. As when a soul is in him, he doth not refuse its gold because it wanteth some grains, nor its honey though it be mingled with wax, Cant 5.1. so when a soul is in the way to him, he doth not reject it for its imperfections, nor twit it with its corruptions, as those flies that love to feed on sores; but as the loving parent beholdeth the Prodigal while he is afar off, runneth more then half way to meet him; and as the