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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 David placed all his delight in the Saints here below, ⟨p. 38⟩when they shined a little (with the light of purity) like the Moon, and had their spots in them; what delight doth he take in them above, now they have perfect purity, and shine like the Sun in the firmament of their father! Matth. 13.43. If it were so lovely a sight to see Solomon in his rags of mortality, that the Queen of Sheba came so far to behold it, what will it be to see him in his robes of glory!
1I remember I have sometimes heard an able holy Minister (now with Christ) say, that that sight of five hundred Saints, and Jesus Christ among them, 1 Cor. 15.6. was one of the bravest goodliest sights that ever eyes beheld on earth: Sure I am they that are in heaven see a far better, beholding Jesus Christ in the midst of many thousands.
- 1Mr. Thomas Wilson, Minister of Maidstone in K•nt, an eminent servant of the Lord Jesus.
Secondly, A Christian shall gain by death the nearest communion with the Lord Jesus Christ; and O what happiness is included in this Head! The presence of Christ on earth can make a mean cottage a most delightful court; to the three children it turned the fiery furnace into a delectable palace; what will it do then in Heaven. Bernard saith, he had rather be