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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.
First, he shall by death be freed from all evil; the immediate and full presence of the chiefest good which the believer shall enjoy after death, will cause the absence of all evil: The influences of that Sun will scatter every mist, and disperse all clouds, which now darken the conditions of pious souls: The day of a christians dissolution will be the day of his redemption, Luke 21.28. this may be the reason why the Apostle placeth redemption last, saith an Expositor, 1 Cor. 1.30. Now we have Christ made into us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, but then redemption. When the Saint is passed through the red Sea of death, ⟨p. 18⟩[…] ⟨p. 19⟩[…] ⟨p. 20⟩and landed at the true Canaan, he shall then see all his bodily and spiritual enemies dead on the shore. In the middle Region there are storms and tempests, and so here below; but above all is calm and quiet: While the christian is upon earth, evils like Jobs messengers follow him, one upon the heels of another; but when he leaveth the earth, every evil will take it's eternal leave of him.
First, he shall by death be freed from all evil; the immediate and full presence of the chiefest good which the believer shall enjoy after death, will cause the absence of all evil: The influences of that Sun will scatter every mist, and disperse all clouds, which now darken the conditions of pious souls: The day of a christians dissolution will be the day of his redemption, Luke 21.28. this may be the reason why the Apostle placeth redemption last, saith an Expositor, 1 Cor. 1.30. Now we have Christ made into us wisdome, righteousnesse, sanctification, but then redemption. When the Saint is passed through the red Sea of death, ⟨p. 18⟩