A62050:146
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.
Secondly, a Christian by death, shall not only be freed from the evil of sin and defilement, but also from the evil of suffering and chastisement:1 the cause being taken away, the effects will cease. Sin is that great-bellied mother (or rather Monster) which conceiveth and bringeth forth all those losses, crosses, diseases, disgraces, sorrows and sufferings whatsoever, that befall the children of men; though man may be the Butt, yet sin is the mark at which the arrows of Divine displeasure are shot; man weaves a spiders web of sin out of his own bowels, and then in entangled in it. Wickedness alone is the original cause of all we, Lament. 3.39. Rom. 6. ult. But now at the death of a Saint, the fountain ⟨p. 28⟩of sin will be dried up, and therefore the streams of sufferings must be dried up also. The fuel being taken away, the fire will go out of it self: sin and sorrow were born, do live, and shall die together.
Secondly, a Christian by death, shall not only be freed from the evil of sin and defilement, but also from the evil of suffering and chastisement:1 the cause being taken away, the effects will cease. Sinne is that great-bellied mother (or rather Monster) which conceiveth and bringeth forth all those losses, crosses, diseases, disgraces, sorrowes and sufferings whatsoever, that befall the children of men; though man may be the Butt, yet sin is the mark at which the arrows of Divine displeasure are shot; man weaves a spiders web of sinne out of his own bowels, and then in intangled in it. Wickednesse alone is the original cause of all we, Lament. 3.39. Rom. 6. ult. But now at the death of a Saint, the fountain ⟨p. 28⟩of sin will be dryed up, and therefore the streams of sufferings must be dryed up also. The fuel being taken away, the fire will go out of it self: sin and sorrow were born, do live, and shall die together.