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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.
I have sometime read, that the Lioness bringeth forth her whelps dead, till after some time the lion roareth aloud, and then they live. This is certain, every man and woman is born dead; dead to God, dead in sins and trespasses, till this lion of rhe tribe of Judah uttereth his voice; then they arise from the dead, and Christ giveth them life. When the soul (like the body of Lazarus) hath been dead so long that it stinketh and is unsavoury, when it hath been many days, nay many years rotting in the grave of corruption, then if Jesus Christ calleth effectually, Lazarus, come forth, sinner come forth of thy carnal unregenerate estate: then, and not till then the soul heareth the voice of the Son of God, and liveth.
I have sometime read, that the Lioness bringeth forth her whelps dead, till after some time the lion roareth aloud, and then they live. This is certain, every man and woman is born dead; dead to God, dead in sins and trespasses, till this lion of rhe tribe of Judah uttereth his voice; then they arise from the dead, and Christ giveth them life. When the soul (like the body of Lazarus) hath been dead so long that it stinketh and is unsavory, when it hath been many dayes, nay many years rotting in the grave of corruption, then if Jesus Christ calleth effectually, Lazarus, come forth, sinner come forth of thy carnal unregenerate estate: then, and not till then the soul heareth the voice of the Son of God, and liveth.
Grace is of a divine birth: Joh. 3.3 it is the seed of God; 11 Joh. 3.9. an unction from the holy One; 1 Joh. 2.27. called dew, which is of a celestial extraction; Psal. 110.3. and light: