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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.
The highest duty without Christ is as a dish without meat, from which he goeth as empty and unsatisfied as he came to it; It is to him as Tullies Hortens. to Augustine, of little worth, if the Name of Jesus be not there.
The highest duty without Christ is as a dish without meat, from which he goeth as empty and unsatisfied as he came to it; It is to him as Tullies Hortens. to Austine, of little worth, if the Name of Jesus be not there.
If he love the Saints with a love of complacency, 'tis because they are Christs seed; if he love the sinner with a love of pity, 'tis for Christs sake; his affections are contracted or enlarged towards any thing, as it hath less or more relation to Christ; and nothing is of true value or worth in his esteem, which hath not aliquid Christi, something of Christ in it.
If he love the Saints with a love of complacency, 'tis because they are Christs seed; if he love the sinner with a love of pity, 'tis for Christs sake; his affections are contracted or enlarged towards any thing, as it hath lesse or more relation to Christ; and nothing is of true value or worth in his esteem, which hath not aliquid Christi, something of Christ in it.
Now consider Reader, if the presence of Christ be so precious, so pleasant to the Christian here, when he can see so little of his excellent beauty, and receive so little of his infinite bounty; what will it be when he shall appear to the soul in all his royalty, ⟨p. 41⟩and fill the water-pots of the soul up to the brim, with the riches of grace and glory!