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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.
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; 1That God who filleth the bellies of his enemies on earth with the hidden treasures of common bounty, will surely fill the souls of his children in heaven, with the precious treasures of special mercy. The soul that now sippeth of the water of life, shall then drink a full draught out of the Rivers of •ods pleasures. The Christian who can now only taste God to be gracious, shall then have a full meal when he shall eat bread in the Kingdom of God. They are before the Throne of God, and serve him day and night in his Temple; and he that sitteth on the Throne, shall dwell among them; they shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the Sun light on them, nor any heat; For the Lamb which is in the midst of the Throne, shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, Rev. 7.15.16, 17.
Now a Christian is described by his hungring 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 signifie; He that drinketh of that water which God shall there give him, shall thirst no more; 1