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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.
1The web of godliness was never spun out of mans own bowels: As none can see the Sun but by its own light: so none can with an eye of faith see the Sun of righteousness, but by the light of grace derived from him.
1The web of godlinesse was never spun out of mans own bowels: As none can see the Sun but by its own light: so none can with an eye of faith see the Sun of righteousnesse, but by the light of grace derived from him.
- 1Non nascimur, sed renascimur christiani.
We are his workmanship, saith the Apostle, created in Jesus Christ, unto good works: His workmanship, not only in our natural capacity, as men, as creatures; and in our civil capacity, as rich or poor, high or low; but also in our spiritual capacity, as Christians, as new creatures.
Secondly, To me to live is Christ; i. e. Christ is the pattern of my life; my life is not only from him, but according to him; Christ is the rule according to which I walk; the copy after which I write: As sin and disobedience is a resemblance of the first; so grace and holiness is a resemblance of the second Adam.
Secondly, To me to live is Christ; i. e. Christ is the pattern of my life; my life is not onely from him, but according to him; Christ is the rule according to which I walk; the copy after which I write: As sin and disobedience is a resemblance of the first; so grace and holinesse is a resemblance of the second Adam.