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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 blind world indeed, as it seeth not their difference in life, (the life of a Saint is an hidden life, Col. 3.3. the Kings daughter is all glorious, but 'tis within, Psal. 45.13. the jewels of her graces are laid up in that privy Drawer, the hidden man of the heart:) so it beholdeth not the difference in their deaths: As dieth the wise man, so dieth the fool, to the eye of sense, and they want the eye of faith, Eccles. 2.16. We see no difference, say they, betwixt the death of them you call profane, and your precise ⟨p. 57⟩ones; they die both alike to our judgments.
The blind world indeed, as it seeth not their difference in life, (the life of a Saint is an hidden life, Col. 3.3. the Kings daughter is all glorious, but 'tis within, Psal. 45.13. the jewels of her graces are laid up in that privy Drawer, the hidden man of the heart:) so it beholdeth not the difference in their deaths: As dieth the wise man, so dieth the fool, to the eye of sense, and they want the eye of faith, Eccles. 2.16. We see no difference, say they, betwixt the death of them you call prophane, and your precise ⟨p. 57⟩ones; they die both alike to our judgments.
But this conceit, Reader, if thou art such an Atheist, proceedeth from thy blindness and unbelief. Thou art probably in the chamber, when a drunkard, a swearer, or a civil moral, yet unsanctified, neighbour departeth this life; thou seest his body trembling, panting, groaning, dying; but thou doest not see the ten thousand times worse condition his poor soul is in: thou seest his kindred or relations weeping; but thou doest not see the infernal spirits rejoicing; thou dost not see the greedy Devils, that waited by the bed-side, like so many roaring lions for their desired & deserved prey: thou doest not see when the soul left the body, how it was immediately seized on by those frightful hell-hounds in a most hideous horrible manner, and haled to the place of intolerable and eternal torments; thou doest not see the shoutings of those legions in hell, at the coming in of a new prisoner, to bear a part in the undergoing of divine fury, in their blasphemies against heavens Majesty, and in their estate of hopelessness and desperation.