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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.
1. Christ is the principle of my life. All living creatures have an inward principle by which they live, and according to which they act. Plants have a principle of vegetation, ⟨p. 7⟩beasts have a principle of sense,1 men have a principle of reason, and their lives are different, answerable to their different principles. But a Christian hath an higher principle (that is, Christ dwelling in his heart by faith, Ephes. 3.17.) and thence it is that he lives an higher life. As the body liveth by its union with the soul, so the Christian liveth by his union with Jesus Christ; Christ is the fountain and spring of his life, the soul of his soul, and the life of his life. I live saith the Apostle, Gal. 2.20. yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God.
1. Christ is the principle of my life. All living creatures have an inward principle by which they live, and according to which they act. Plants have a principle of vegetation, ⟨p. 7⟩beasts have a principle of sense,1 men have a principle of reason, and their lives are different, answerable to their different principles. But a Christian hath an higher principle (that is, Christ dwelling in his heart by faith, Ephes. 3.17.) and thence it is that he lives an higher life. As the body liveth by its union with the soul, so the Christian liveth by his union with Jesus Christ; Christ is the fountaine and spring of his life, the soul of his soul, and the life of his life. I live saith the Apostle, Gal. 2.20. yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Sonne of God.