A62050:170
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.
But the Christian shall not barely enjoy God after death, for that he doth in this life, but he shall enjoy God fully. Now the Saint enjoyeth a little of God, and O how refreshing is it to his weary soul! but then he shall have as much of God, as his heart can wish or hold. In this life there is a Communication of God, answerable to the capacities of men, and the fault is in us, not in God that we receive no more of him on earth. The ground is not in the Sun, but in the narrowness of our windows, that we partake no more of its light; the cause is in the smallness of our vessels, not in the well, that we carry away no more of its water. If our mouths were never so wide-opened, God would fill them now: But then the windows of the soul shall be widened, and the vessels of the heart enlarged, and so fitted for, and filled with a greater participation of God. There is not the least complaint of want; All the Patriarchs sacks are there filled with corn; There Davids cup runneth over; there the holy ⟨p. 48⟩Ephesians are filled with all the fullness of God. In that Fathers house there is bread enough, and to spare for all his children. There is given to all good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, Luk. 6.38.
But the Christian shall not barely enjoy God after death, for that he doth in this life, but he shall enjoy God fully. Now the Saint enjoyeth a little of God, and O how refreshing is it to his weary soul! but then he shall have as much of God, as his heart can wish or hold. In this life there is a Communication of God, answerable to the capacities of men, and the fault is in us, not in God that we receive no more of him on earth. The ground is not in the Sun, but in the narrownesse of our windowes, that we partake no more of its light; the cause is in the smallnesse of our vessels, not in the well, that we carry away no more of its water. If our mouths were never so wide-opened, God would fill them now: But then the windowes of the soul shall be widened, and the vessels of the heart enlarged, and so fitted for, and filled with a greater participation of God. There is not the least complaint of want; All the Patriarchs sacks are there filled with corn; There Davids cup runneth over; there the holy ⟨p. 48⟩