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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.
Apostles, Prophets, Pastors, Teachers, are for the perfecting of the Saints, for the edifying of the body of Christ, no longer then till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, Ephes. 4.11.12, 13. When God shall be all in all, then (and not till then) Ordinances will be nothing at all. When the Saint comes to his journeys end, he may throw away his staff. Now how much will this add to the former, that the Christian shall without ordinances enjoy God! ⟨p. 52⟩How lovely is the face of God, though it be but in the glass of the Gospel? 2 Cor. 3.18. this was the one thing which David begged, that he might dwell in the house of the Lord, to see the beauty of his face, Psal. 27.4. Ah how lovely will he be, when the Christian shall see him face to face! 1 Cor. 13.12.
Apostles, Prophets, Pastours, Teachers, are for the perfecting of the Saints, for the edifying of the body of Christ, no longer then till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ, Ephes. 4.11.12, 13. When God shall be all in all, then (and not till then) Ordinances will be nothing at all. When the Saint comes to his journeys end, he may throw away his staffe. Now how much will this adde to the former, that the Christian shall without ordinances enjoy God! ⟨p. 52⟩How lovely is the face of God, though it be but in the glasse of the Gospel? 2 Cor. 3.18. this was the one thing which David begg'd, that he might dwell in the house of the Lord, to see the beauty of his face,