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Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an…
Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an exhortation with motives, means and directions to be speedy and serious about the work of conversion. By George Swinnocke M.A. sometime fellow of Balliol College in Oxford, and now preacher of the Gospel at Rickmersworth in Hertfordshire.Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an exhortation with motives, means and directions to be speedy and serious about the work of conversion. By George Swinnocke M.A. sometime fellow of Baliol Colledge in Oxford, and now preacher of the Gospel at Rickmersworth in Hertfordshire.
London: printed by E.M. for Tho. Parkhurst, 1659
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.
And to die is gain, i. e.1 I having had no other object, no employment but Christ and his service in my life, shall certainly have an eternal advancement at my death. Or Christ is my life here by grace, and hereafter by glory; He is both the Author and the end of my life; I live for him, I live to him, I live in him, I live by him, and if I be put to death, that shall no way endamage me, but rather bring me great advantage, in regard that thereby I shall gain heaven for earth, an happy eternal life for this miserable mortal life. So our larger Annotations sense it.a Some indeed read the words, Christ is my gain both in life and death, and therefore the Apostle was little troubled at, but rather indifferent to all conditions. There is a certain truth in this Exposition, thoughb Piscator will by no means grant it to be the mind of the Spirit in this place.
And to die is gain, i. e.1 I having had no other object, no employment but Christ and his service in my life, shall certainly have an eternal advancement at my death. Or Christ is my life here by grace, and hereafter by glory; He is both the Authour and the end of my life; I live for him, I live to him, I live in him, I live by him, and if I be put to death, that shall no way endamage me, but rather bring me great advantage, in regard that thereby I shall gain heaven for earth, an happy eternal life for this miserable mortal life. So our larger Annotations sense it.a Some indeed read the words, Christ is my gain both in life and death, and therefore the Apostle was little troubled at, but rather indifferent to all conditions. There is a certain truth in this Exposition, thoughb Piscator will by no means grant it to be the mind of the Spirit in this place.
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