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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.
Men, saith a modern writer, like silly fishes, see one another caught, and jerked out of the pond of life; but they see not (alas) the fire and pan into which they are cast, who die in their sins; Oh it had been better surely for such, if they had never been born, as Christ said of Judas, then to be brought forth to the murderer (that old man-slayer) to be hurled into hell, there to suffer such things as they shall never be able to avoid, or abide.
Men, saith a modern writer, like silly fishes, see one another caught, and jerkt out of the pond of life; but they see not (alas) the fire and pan into which they are cast, who die in their sins; Oh it had been better surely for such, if they had never been born, as Christ said of Judas, then to be brought forth to the murtherer (that old man-slayer) to be hurled into hell, there to suffer such things as they shall never be able to avoid, or abide.
On the other side, thou standest by a scorned persecuted Saint, when he is bidding adieu to a sinful world; thou seest the strugglings and droppings of his outward man, but thou seest not the reviving cordial the Physician of souls is preparing for his inward man; thou doest not see those glorious Angels which watch and wait upon this heaven-born soul.
On the other side, thou standest by a scorned persecuted Saint, when he is bidding adieu to a sinful world; thou seest the struglings and droopings of his outward man, but thou seest not the reviving cordial the Physician of souls is preparing for his inward man; thou doest not see those glorious Angels which watch and wait upon this heaven-born soul.
That waggon or chariot, which the son of Joseph sendeth to fetch his relation to a true Goshen,