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The works of George Swinnock, M.A
The works of George Swinnock, M.A. containing these several treatises ...
London: printed by J.B. for Tho. Parkhurst, 1665
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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. It is powerful; As fire it can melt the hardest metal; As an Hammer, it can break the most stony heart, Jer. 23. 29.
2. It is powerful; As fire it can melt the hardest mettal; As an Hammer, it can break the most stony heart, Ier. 23. 29.
1. It is powerful for Conviction; It sets mens sins before their eyes, and makes them behold their ugliness and deformity, whether they will or no; It tells the sinner as Elisha concerning the Syrian King, to the King of Israel, what he doth and saith in his bed-chamber, in the retiring room of his heart; It makes the spirit of the stoutest sinner to tre•ble, as the leaves with the wind, and though he strives to put off his quaking fits by some humane cordials, yet he finds his soul-Ague still continuing upon him. Sturdy Murderers of Christ spring in trembling, and an earthly Felix quakes under the power of this word; This voice of the Lord is powerful, it •hakes the Cedars of Lebanon. The batteries of the word have shaken the senseless conscience, and shattered the flinty h•art in pieces.
1. It is powerful for Conviction; It sets mens sins before their eyes, and makes them behold their ugliness and deformity, whether they will or no; It tells the sinner as Elisha concerning the Syrian King, to the King of Israel, what he doth and saith in his bed-•hamber, in the retiring room of his heart; It makes the spirit of the stoutest sinner to tre•ble, as the leaves with the wind, and though he strives to put off his quaking fits by some humane cordials, yet he finds his soul-Ague still continuing upon him. Sturdy Murderers of Christ spring in trembling, and an earthly Felix quakes under the power of this word; This voice of the Lord is powerful, it hakes the Cedars of Lebanon. The batteries of the word have shaken the sensless conscience, and shattered the flinty hart in peices.