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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 three evils of affliction which I shall mention: The first on the Name. The second on the Body. The third on the Soul.
From all which a believer shall be freed by death.
First, Death will free the Saint from ignominy on his name: Here if the world cannot make the christian wound his conscience, they will be sure to wound his credit: Elijah is counted the troubler of Israel, Nehemiah a rebel against the King, David the song of the drunkards, and the scorn of the ⟨p. 30⟩gluttons, Psalm 69.12.35.16. Isaiah and his children for signs and wonders, Isa. 8.18. Jeremiah is a man of contention, Jer. 15.10. The son of man a wine-bibber & a glutton, Paul a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition, Acts 24.10. the uprightest Saint is marked for an hypocrite in the worlds Calendar: If they cannot smite him with their hands (their arms are not long enough always) they will not fail to smite him with their tongues: What a precise fool, say they, is such a fellow! he dares not take up his cups as we do; but could we see his heart, it is as bad as the worst of ours; he will do as bad or worse, when no body seeth him; he will not swear, but he will lie, I'll warrant you: He spendeth his time in nothing but going to Sermons and meetings, and is as arrant a dissembler as liveth. Such an one of the same Society was guilty of such a sin, and they are all alike: these are your professors. Thus the corruption of their hearts breaks out at their lips, and they most wretchedly wound even Christ, through the sides of the Christian.