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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.
The first use which I shall make of this Doctrine, shall be by way of information: If such as have Christ for their life, shall have gain by their death; it informeth us of the difference betwixt the deaths of the sinner and the Saint: the one is an unspeakable gainer; the other an unconceivable loser by death. Death to the good is the gate through which they go into the kingdom of heaven: death to the bad is the trap-door through which they fall into hell. The godly dyeth as well as the wicked; but the wicked man dieth not so well as the godly. The metal and the dross go both into the fire; but the metal is refined, and the dross consumed: As the cloud in the wilderness had a light side to the Israelite, but a dark side to the Egyptian: so death hath nothing but light and comfort for the Israel of God; nothing but darkness and sorrow for the sinful Egyptians. Death to every one is a messenger sent from the Lord of life; it cometh to the regenerate, as the young Prophet to Jehu; I have an errand to thee, O Captain; and what was his errand? he poured the oil on his head, saying, Thus saith the Lord, I have anointed thee King over Israel, 2 Kings ⟨p. 55⟩9.5, 6. It is a messenger from God to call the Christian to a Kingdom which cannot be shaken. But it cometh to the unregenerate, as Ehud to Eglon: And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee; and what was his message? Judges 3.20, 21. And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into Eglon's belly: It is a messenger from God, with a mortal wounding, killing, stabbing message to a sinner. The pale white horse of death rides before, and the red fiery horse of hell follows after.
The first use which I shall make of this Doctrine, shall be by way of information: If such as have Christ for their life, shall have gain by their death; it informeth us of the difference betwixt the deaths of the sinner and the Saint: the one is an unspeakable gainer; the other an unconceivable loser by death. Death to the good is the gate through which they go into the kingdome of heaven: death to the bad is the trap-door through which they fall into hell. The godly dyeth as well as the wicked; but the wicked man dieth not so well as the godly. The metal and the drosse go both into the fire; but the metal is refined, and the drosse consumed: As the cloud in the wildernesse had a light side to the Israelite, but a dark side to the Egyptian: so death hath nothing but light and comfort for the Israel of God; nothing but darknesse and sorrow for the sinful Egyptians. Death to every one is a messenger sent from the Lord of life; it cometh to the regenerate, as the young Prophet to Jehu; I have an errand to thee, O Captain; and what was his errand? he poured the oil on his head, saying, Thus saith the Lord, I have anointed thee King over Israel,