A62050:154
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.
Now the Saints sorrows are not perfect sorrows, (non dantur purae tenebrae, to the believer) it shineth and showereth at the same time: he sorroweth not as they which have no hope; but his joy at death shall be perfect joy, fullness of joy, Psal. 16. ult. and permanent joy: when they shall see Christ at death, their hearts shall rejoice, and their joy shall no man take from them, John 16.22. then the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs, and everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away, Isa. 35. ult.
Now the Saints sorrows are not perfect sorrows, (non dantur purae tenebrae, to the believer) it shineth and showreth at the same time: he sorroweth not as they which have no hope; but his joy at death shall be perfect joy, fulness of joy, Psal. 16. ult. and permanent joy: when they shall see Christ at death, their hearts shall rejoyce, and their joy shall no man take from them, John 16.22. then the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs, and everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladnesse, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away, Isa. 35. ult.
So much for the privative gain of a christian by death, or his freedom from evil.
So much for the privative gain of a christian by death, or his freedome from evil.