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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
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2. The soul alive in Christ shall be freed at death, from all suggestions and temptations to sin. Then a Christian shall be above the reach of all Satan's batteries; then that promise will be performed, That the God of peace will tread Satan under the Saints feet, Rom. 16.20. Now Peter is winnowed, Paul is buffeted, David is stirred by the wicked one to number the people. If Joshua be ministering unto the Lord, Satan will be at his right hand to resist him, Zach. 3.1. It's no small unhappiness to a Saint, that he is here followed with unwearied assaults, that the Prince of darkness is restless in casting in his fire-balls, to put the soul into an hellish flame; though he should never be conquered, yet for the Christian to have his quarters beaten up night and day, must needs disquiet him. To have blasphemous thoughts of a God infinitely great and gracious, to have mean and vile ⟨p. 25⟩apprehensions of a Saviour incomparably precious, cast into him, though he close not with them, cannot but wound him to the heart: As for a chaste Matron that loatheth the thoughts of dishonesty, to be continually solicited to folly, is a sore vexation. The temptations of our Lord Jesus, were a sad part of his humiliation.
2. The soul alive in Christ shall be freed at death, from all suggestions and temptations to sin. Then a Christian shall be above the reach of all Satans batteries; then that promise will be performed, That the God of peace will tread Satan under the Saints feet, Rom. 16.20. Now Peter is winnowed, Paul is buffeted, David is stirred by the wicked one to number the people. If Joshua be ministring unto the Lord, Satan will be at his right hand to resist him, Zach. 3.1. It's no small unhappinesse to a Saint, that he is here followed with unwearied assaults, that the Prince of darknesse is restlesse in casting in his fire-balls, to put the soul into an hellish flame; though he should never be conquered, yet for the Christian to have his quarters beaten up night and day, must needs disquiet him. To have blasphemous thoughts of a God infinitely great and gracious, to have mean and vile