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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 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!
Demorrhathus of Corinth saith, they lost the chief part of their lives happiness, that did not see Alexander sit on the throne of Darius; if that were such an happy sight, what a sight shall the Saints have to see Christ on his Fathers Throne? O how much is included in those few words, To be with Christ, which is the description of the Saints gain by death! Philip. 1.23. This was the great Legacy and portion which Christ bequeathed his in his last Will and Testament,