A62050:128
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.
I come now to the second thing promised, and that is, to manifest wherein the christian that hath Christ for the principle, pattern, comfort, and end of his life, shall be a gainer by death. And truly, Reader, in speaking of this gain I shall acknowledge my self at a loss; though my tongue were as the pen of a ready writer, it could never express it, and if my pen were as the tongue of a ready speaker, it could never describe it. The land of Canaan, notwithstanding all the helps we have, is still for the most part terra incognita, an unknown land. The sights there, are light inaccessible, as to mortal eyes, 1 Tim. 6.16.1 and the sounds there, are words not audible, as to mortal ears, 2 Cor. 12.4. words which may not or cannot be uttered, or both.
I come now to the second thing promised, and that is, to manifest wherein the christian that hath Christ for the principle, pattern, comfort, and end of his life, shall be a gainer by death. And truly, Reader, in speaking of this gain I shall acknowledge my self at a losse; though my tongue were as the pen of a ready writer, it could never expresse it, and if my pen were as the tongue of a ready speaker, it could never describe it. The land of Canaan, notwithstanding all the helps we have, is still for the most part terra incognita, an unknown land. The sights there, are light inaccessible, as to mortal eyes, 1 Tim. 6.16.1 and the sounds there, are words not audible, as to mortal eares, 2 Cor. 12.4. words which may not or cannot be uttered, or both.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew], i. e. quod fando explicari à quopiam homine non potest. Beza & •rasm. ita eo ponunt.〈non-Latin alphabet〉, i. e. quod fando explicari à quopiam homine non potest. Beza & rasm. ita eo ponunt.