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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.
If Ireland (as some write) be so pure a soil, that it will not nourish any venomous creature; I am sure heaven is so pure, that into it can in no wise enter any thing that defileth, Rev. 21. ult. it will not harbour those poisonous serpents.
If Ireland (as some write) be so pure a soyle, that it will not nourish any venemous creature; I am sure heaven is so pure, that into it can in no wise enter any thing that defileth, Rev. 21. ult. it will not harbour those poisnous serpents.
Heaven once (saith an Author) spued them out, and it will not return to its vomit, or lick them up again; no such dirty dog shall ever trample on that golden pavement. There is such a cursed irreconcilable contrariety in their natures, to the blessed company and exercises in heaven, that certainly they cannot desire, much less delight in that place; If the Presence of Christ were such a torment to them in his estate of humiliation: what a torment would it be in his estate of exaltation! it ⟨p. 27⟩is observable they left their own habitation, Jude ver. 6. the word seemeth to imply, that when they lost their primitive purity, they willingly lost that habitation of spiritual pleasures. But whether he will or no, he shall be banished those coasts; though he now dog the Saint at, and disturb him in every duty, he shall do it no more; The accuser of the brethren shall be cast down, neither shall his place be found any more in heaven, Rev. 12.8, 9.
Heaven once (saith an Author) spued them out, and it will not return to its vomit, or lick them up again; no such dirty dog shall ever trample on that golden pavement. There is such a cursed irreconcileable contrariety in their natures, to the blessed company and exercises in heaven, that certainly they cannot desire, much lesse delight in that place; If the Presence of Christ were such a torment to them in his estate of humiliation: what a torment would it be in his estate of exaltation! it