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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.
Fourthly, To me to live is Christ, that is, Christ is the end of my life; Christ is both the Author and the end of my life; as my life is from Christ, so my life is for Christ; the great care of the Apostle, was to magnify Christ both by his life and death, Phil. 1.20.* All the gain I aim at, both in life and death, is Christ, namely to glorify him by my service.
Fourthly, To me to live is Christ, that is, Christ is the end of my life; Christ is both the Authour and the end of my life; as my life is from Christ, so my life is for Christ; the great care of the Apostle, was to magnifie Christ both by his life and death, Phil. 1.20.* All the gain I aim at, both in life and death, is Christ, namely to glorifie him by my service.
- *Large Annot.
According to the principles of a man,1 such are his ends; He that acteth from self, acteth for self: That obedience which ariseth from the creature, will be terminated in the creature. Solomon saith, Eccles. 1.7. All the Rivers run into the Sea; unto the place from whence the rivers came, thither they return again; so the life of a Christian coming from Christ, must necessarily tend to Christ. A sincere Saint doth not like the hypocrite, look asquint at self-applause, self-profit, and such beggarly ends, but his eyes look straight on at the glory of Jesus Christ. If Christ be glorified, though he be disgraced, he is satisfied; when Christ hath honoured the soul by giving it grace, the soul honoureth Christ by giving him glory. Grace is the most curious work, and therefore no wonder if it be for the credit of the Workman, Trees bear fruit