A62050:171
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.
We say there is no fishing like to the Sea, because the Sea hath the greatest plenty, and the vastest capacity; there are fish enough to fill all our nets, and lade all our ships. I may more truly say, there is no fruition like to the fruition of God; he hath enough, not only to supply all our indigencies, and to satisfy all our necessities, and desires, but he can do abundantly for us, above what we are able to ask or think, Ephes. 3.20. God hath enough to fill himself, as boundless a being as he is; surely then he hath enough to fill the limited soul of man; that which can fill the Ocean, may well fill a spoon.
We say there is no fishing like to the Sea, because the Sea hath the greatest plenty, and the vastest capacity; there are fish enough to fill all our nets, and lade all our ships. I may more truly say, there is no fruition like to the fruition of God; he hath enough, not only to supply all our indigencies, and to satisfie all our necessities, and desires, but he can do abundantly for us, above what we are able to ask or think, Ephes. 3.20. God hath enough to fill himself, as boundless a being as he is; surely then he hath enough to fill the limited soul of man; that which can fill the Ocean, may well fil a spoon.
Now a Christian is described by his hungering and thirsting, his panting and breathing after a perfect conformity to God, that thereby he may be prepared for perfect Communion with God; but blessed are they which now thus hunger and thirst, for then they shall be filled, Matth. 5.6. Well […] a good bait, as the ⟨p. 49⟩word used by our Saviour doth signify; He that drinketh of that water which God shall there give him, shall thirst no more;