A62050:127
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 honour of Christ is exceeding dear to a true Christian: It is dearer then his name. Lord, saith a Father, use me for thy shield to keep off those wounds of dishonour which would fall on thy majesty. Let the reproaches wherewith they would reproach thee, fall upon me:2 And Luther is called a Devil, saith Luther, in an Epistle to Spalatinus; but be it so, so long as Christ is magnified, I am well apaid, nay the honour of Christ is dearer than life to a believer. Paul, as one saith of him, stood a tip-toe to see which way he might glorify Christ most, whether by life or death. ⟨p. 17⟩Neither count I my life dear unto me, so I may finish the Ministry I have received of the Lord Jesus, Act. 20 and 24.
1The honour of Christ is exceeding dear to a true Christian: It is dearer then his name. Lord, saith a Father, use me for thy shield to keep off those wounds of dishonour which would fall on thy majesty. Let the reproaches wherewith they would reproach thee, fall upon me:2 And Luther is called a Devil, saith Luther, in an Epistle to Spalatinus; but be it so, so long as Christ is magnified, I am well apaid, nay the honour of Christ is dearer than life to a believer. Paul, as one saith of him, stood a tip-toe to see which way he might glorifie Christ most, whether by life or death. ⟨p. 17⟩Neither count I my life dear unto me, so I may finish the Ministry I have received of the Lord Jesus, Act. 20 and 24.
- 1Bonum est mihi, si Deus me uti pro clipeo dignetur. Bern.
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