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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.
It is worthy our observation, that Job speaking of God, Job 13.16. saith, He shall be my salvation. An Expositor observeth on that Text, Job doth not say, He shall give me salvation, but he shall be my salvation. 1It more pleaseth a Saint that he enjoyeth God, then that he enjoyeth salvation. As nothing that a godly man giveth God, will content him, unless he give God himself: so nothing which God giveth a godly man will satisfy him,2 unless God giveth himself to him; His voice is non tua, sedte Domine. Lord not thine, but thee; he is better pleased that God is his salvation, then that he saveth him; Whom have I in heaven but thee? saith he; There are Saints, Angels, Arch-Angels, saith Musculus; but in the presence of this glorious Sun, those stars must vanish and disappear. What are Saints, what are Angels without God? and it's true of things, ⟨p. 46⟩as well as persons; what is the glory, what the pleasures, what the joys of heaven without God? What's all the robes and riches, what's all the crowns and comforts, what's all the delights, the delicates, the diadems of heaven, without the God of heaven, but as the Funeral-banquet for some eminent Prince, where is large provision, and great cost, but no cheer? No, it is God alone that is the centre to which the Saint moveth, and in which he resteth.
It is worthy our observation, that Job speaking of God, Job 13.16. saith, He shall be my salvation. An Expositour observeth on that Text, Job doth not say, He shall giue me salvation, but he shall be my salvation. 1It more pleaseth a Saint that he enjoyeth God, then that he enjoyeth salvation. As nothing that a godly man giveth God, will content him, unlesse he give God himself: so nothing which God giveth a godly man will satisfie him,2 unlesse God giveth himself to him; His voice is non tua, sedte Domine. Lord not thine, but thee; he is better pleased that God is his salvation, then that he saveth him; Whom have I in heaven but thee? saith he; There are Saints, Angels, Arch-Angels, saith Musculus; but in the presence of this glorious Sun, those stars must vanish and disappeare. What are Saints, what are Angels without God? and it's true of things,