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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
Dedication: TO THE WORSHIPFUL And my esteemed Friend RICHARD BERESFORD Esquire, Justice of the Peac…
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 shall take the liberty (which I know you will give) to speak a few words to you in your twofold capacity.
First as you are a Christian; and herein my counsel will be, that you would more and more ensure your effectual calling. We say, where men intend to live long, they build strong. I am confident all that you are worth, for your endless condition in the other world, dependeth under Christ upon your inward change. And if ever any wires had need to be firm and strong, then questionless they upon which such heavy weights hang, as your eternal unchangeable estate.
First as you are a Christian; and herein my counsel will be, that you would more and more ensure your effectual calling. We say, where men intend to live long, they build strong. I am confident all that you are worth, for your endless condition in the other world, dependeth under Christ upon your inward change. And if ever any wyers had need to be firm and strong, then questionlesse they upon which such heavy weights hang, as your eternal unchangeable estate.
You have a large room in the hearts of many that are holy: But alas Sir, the best mans confidence of me would prove but a bad evidence for heaven: He is not approved whom man commendeth, ⟨image 4⟩but whom the Lord commendeth.