A62050:173
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.
Observe Reader; I say a Christian shall gain by death,1 a full immediate fruition of God; now the Saint drinketh of the waters of life, (and they are pleasant, though) through the Conduits and Cisterns of Ordinances; but with what joy will he draw ⟨p. 50⟩water immediately out of the Well of salvation?2 We read in Joshua 5.12. when Israel came to Canaan, Manna ceased, and they did eat of the fruits of the Land. While the Saint is in the Wilderness of this world, he needeth, and feedeth on the Manna of the Word, Sacraments, Prayer, and the like; but when death shall land him at that place of which Canaan was but a type, the Manna of Ordinances shall cease, he shall eat the fruits of that Land. Ordinances are necessary for, and suitable to our state of imperfection; Jacob drove his flocks, as they were able to go, so doth Christ his sheep.
Observe Reader; I say a Christian shall gain by death,1 a full immediate fruition of God; now the Saint drinketh of the waters of life, (and they are pleasant, though) through the Conduits and Cisterns of Ordinances; but with what joy will he draw ⟨p. 50⟩water immediately out of the Well of salvation?2 We read in Joshua 5.12. when Israel came to Canaan, Manna ceased, and they did eat of the fruits of the Land. While the Saint is in the Wildernesse of this world, he needeth, and feedeth on the Manna of the Word, Sacraments, Prayer, and the like; but when death shall land him at that place of which Canaan was but a type, the Manna of Ordinances shall cease, he shall eat the fruits of that Land. Ordinances are necessary for, and suitable to our state of imperfection; Jacob drove his flocks, as they were able to go, so doth Christ his sheep.