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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.
There are two evils, which are indeed the only evils (though the first is by much the worst) the evil of sin, or defilement; and the evil of suffering, or chastisement: Now a believer by death shall be freed from both these.
Therere are two evils, which are indeed the onely evils (though the first is by much the worst) the evil of sin, or defilement; and the evil of suffering, or chastisement: Now a believer by death shall be freed from both these.
First, from the evil of sin: and in this take notice, that death will deliver the christian both from the commission of it, and from all suggestions tending to it.
First, Death will free the Saint from the commission of sin: In hell there is nothing but wickedness: In heaven there is nothing but holiness: The unregenerate man is never so wicked, as after death; now sin is in its minority, then it will be in it's maturity now it is but the sinners evening, but then i• will be a perfect night of blackness, o• darkness: The godly man is never so holy ⟨p. 21⟩as after death; grace is now in its infancy, then it will attain to its full age; now it is as the morning light, then it will attain to its noon-day brightness: Sin is now by a spiritual life mortified, that it doth not reign; but then by death it shall be nullified, that it shall not so much as remain in a believer.
First, Death will free the Saint from the commission of sin: In hell there is nothing but wickednesse: In heaven there is nothing but holiness: The unregenerate man is never so wicked, as after death; now sin is in its minority, then it will be in it's maturity now it is but the sinners evening, but then i will be a perfect night of blacknesse, o darknesse: The godly man is never so holy