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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.
One end of Christs incarnation and life in the flesh, was to set an exact pattern for our lives in the spirit; He left us an example, that ⟨p. 10⟩we should follow his steps, 1 Pet. 2.21. All the actions of Christ are instructions to a Christian: His actions were either moral or mediatory; In both the Christian imitates him: In the former, doing as he did, exercising the same graces, performing the same duties, resisting the same temptations, forbearing the same corruptions: In the latter by similitude, dying to sin, as he died for sin; rising to a spiritual life, as he rose again to a natural life. None indeed can parallel the life of Christ, but every new creature imitateth Christ in his life; he walketh as Christ walked, 11 Joh. 2.6. The same mind is in all the Saints (so far as they are regenerated) that was in Christ, the same will, the same affections; they love what he loveth; they loath what he loatheth; what pleaseth him, pleaseth them; what grieveth his spirit, grieveth their spirits: As the wicked are like their father the Devil; unholy, as he is unholy; so the children of Christ are like their everlasting Father; holy as he is holy; only with this difference, in Christ there is a fullness, in them a measure; in Christ pureness, in them a mixture.
One end of Christs incarnation and life in the flesh, was to set an exact pattern for our lives in the spirit; He left us an example, that ⟨p. 10⟩we shoeld follow his steps, 1 Pet. 2.21. All the actions of Christ are instructions to a Christian: His actions were either moral or mediatory; In both the Christian imitates him: In the former, doing as he did, exercising the same graces, performing the same duties, resisting the same temptations, forbearing the same corruptions: In the latter by similitude, dying to sin, as he died for sin; rising to a spiritual life, as he rose again to a natural life. None indeed can parallel the life of Christ, but every new creature imitateth Christ in his life; he walketh as Christ walked,