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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.
Piscator observeth that the consolation of Israel is the Periphrasis of Jesus Christ, Luk. 2.25. Because all the consolation of a true Israelite (as Jacobs in Benjamin) is bound up in Christ; if he be gone, the soul goeth down to the grave with sorrow. As all the candles in a Country cannot make a day; no, it must be the rising of the Sun that must do it: So all the health, wealth, honours, pleasures, relations, possessions, nay the greatest confluence of comforts, that the whole Creation affordeth, cannot make a day of light and gladness in the heart of a believer; no, it must be the rising of this Sun of Righteousness. The light of his countenance causeth more joy than all the corn and wine, and oil of this world can. He faith as Luther, Christ liveth, or otherwise I would not desire to live one moment. Or as that Noble Marquess of Vico, Their money perish with them, that think all the wealth in the world worth one hours Communion with Jesus Christ.
Piscator observeth that the consolation of Israel is the Periphrasis of Jesus Christ, Luk. 2.25. Because all the consolation of a true Israelite (as Jacobs in Benjamin) is bound up in Christ; if he be gone, the soul goeth down to the grave with sorrow. As all the candles in a Country cannot make a day; no, it must be the rising of the Sun that must do it: So all the health, wealth, honours, pleasures, relations, possessions, nay the greatest confluence of comforts, that the whole Creation affordeth, cannot make a day of light and gladnesse in the heart of a believer; no, it must be the rising of this Sun of Righteousnesse. The light of his countenance causeth more joy than all the corn and wine, and oyl of this world can. He faith as Luther, Christ liveth, or otherwise I would not desire to live one moment. Or as that Noble Marquesse of Vico, Their mony perish with them, that think all the wealth in the world worth one hours Communion with Jesus Christ.
His comfort ebbeth and floweth as Christ