A62050:174
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.
Here we are in a state of uncleanness, and therefore want water in Baptism to wash us, (saith an Eminent Divine) in a state of darkness, and therefore want the light of the Word to direct us; in a state of weariness, and therefore want a Lords day of rest to refresh us; in a state of weakness, and therefore want bread in the Supper to strengthen us; in a state of sorrow, and therefore want wine to comfort us; in a state of beggary, and therefore want prayer to fetch some spiritual alms from the beautiful Gate of Gods Temple: Whilst the ⟨p. 51⟩Saint is as a child, he thinks as a child, speaks as a child, understands as a child; but when he shall come to be a perfect man, he shall put away these childish things: when every earthly member shall be mortified, and the body of death wholly destroyed, when the faculties of the soul shall be enlarged, and the sanctification of the inner man perfected, when the rags of mortality shall be put off, and grace swallowed up in glory, The Sun shall be no more thy light by day, nor the Moon thy light by night, but the Lord thy God thine everlasting light, and thy God thy glory, Isa. 60.19.
Here we are in a state of uncleanenesse, and therefore want water in Baptisme to wash us, (saith an Eminent Divine) in a state of darknesse, and therefore want the light of the Word to direct us; in a state of wearinesse, and therefore want a Lords day of rest to refresh us; in a state of weaknesse, and therefore want bread in the Supper to strengthen us; in a state of sorrow, and therefore want wine to comfort us; in a state of beggery, and therefore want prayer to fetch some spiritual alms from the beautiful Gate of Gods Temple: Whil'st the ⟨p. 51⟩Saint is as a child, he thinks as a child, speaks as a child, understands as a child; but when he shall come to be a perfect man, he shall put away these childish things: when every earthly member shall be mortified, and the body of death wholly destroyed, when the faculties of the soul shall be enlarged, and the sanctification of the inner man perfected, when the rags of mortality shall be put off, and grace swallowed up in glory, The Sun shall be no more thy light by day, nor the Moon thy light by night, but the Lord thy God thine everlasting light, and thy God thy glory,