A62050:166
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 presence of this King will make the Court indeed. For the Lord to be with us is our chiefest security; though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me; Psal. 23.4. but for us to be with the Lord, will be our choicest felicity. In his presence is fullness of joy, at his right hand are pleasures ⟨p. 44⟩for evermore, 1Psal. 16. ult. God is not wealth or honour, or comfort, or friends, or earth, or heaven, but something infinitely beyond all these. God is an immense Ocean of all excellencies and perfections, without either banks or bottom. God is virtually eminently every thing, all things; As in the Wars between Charles the fifth, and Francis the first, King of France, when the Emperors Herald had bid defiance to the King,2 from Charles Emperor of Germany, King of Castile, Leon, Aragon, and Naples, Arch-duke of Austria, with the rest of his Titles: the King commanded the Heralds to return the challenge from Francis King of France, commanding them to repeat France as many times as the other had Petty Earldoms in his stile, intimating that one France was worth them all; so truly, one God answereth all things. He is health and strength, riches and relations, joy and pleasures, light and life, and much more; all the excellencies scattered and shadowed in the creature, are united and realized in the Creator who is blessed for ever; One God is worth more than all his creatures can sum up in millions of ages.
The presence of this King will make the Court indeed. For the Lord to be with us is our chiefest security; though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, I will feare no evil, for thou art with me; Psal. 23.4. but for us to be with the Lord, will be our choicest felicity. In his presence is fulnesse of joy, at his right hand are pleasures ⟨p. 44⟩