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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.
Thirdly, As death will free the believer from diseases in his body, so also from sorrows in his soul: The christian liveth upon earth, as in a valley of tears, and often mingleth his drink with weeping: As he is a man, he is born to sorrows, as the sparks fly upward; he cometh into the world crying, and goeth out groaning; and his whole life from the womb to the tomb is in some regard a living death, or a dying life. But as he is a christian, he drinketh deepest of this cup of sorrows; the world is a tender mother to her children, but a step-mother to strangers. Sometimes the afflictions of the good cause high-water in the Saints heart; by the rivers of Babylon he sits down and weepeth, when he remembereth Zion, Psal. 137.1. He cannot but sympathize with the miseries of his fellow-members, as being himself in the body: Sometimes the transgressions ⟨p. 34⟩of the bad clothe him with mourning, like Croesus son, though dumb before, yet he crieth out when his father is wounded. As with a sword they pierce his bones, when they blasphemously say unto him, 1Where is thy God? rivers of tears run down his eyes, because the wicked forsake Gods Law, Psal. 119.136. Sometimes his own corruptions, like so many daggers stab him to the heart, that he should abuse such an Ocean of unspeakable love, by so unsuitable a heart, and so unanswerable a life: He confesseth his iniquities, and is sorry for his sins, Psal. 38.18. Sometimes divine desertions darken and cloud all his comforts; When God hides his face, he is troubled, Psal. 30.7. As there are no joys like to those joys wherewith God reviveth him in the day of his favour; so there is no sorrow like to those sorrows wherewith God depresseth him in the day of his anger. Thus his life is a circle of sorrows, but death will be the Funeral of his sorrows, and resurrection of his joys now he soweth in tears, but then he shal• reap in joy. The day of death is a Saints Marriage-day: Samsons wife indeed wep on her wedding-day,