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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.
As a stranger thou mayst hear the last Will and Testament of Christ read, and therein the fair, rich and large portions, which he hath bequeathed to his children, John 17.24. Luke 12.32. but not the least mention made of any good for thee; look from the beginning of Genesis, to the end of Revelation, and see if there be one good word spoken to thee, whilst thou art in thy natural estate. Moses like, thou mayst by the prospective of Scripture, have a Pisgah sight of Palestine, of that good Land flowing with milk and honey; but as God is true, if thou diest in unregeneracy, thou shalt never enjoy one foot of it.
As a stranger thou mayst hear the last Will and Testament of Christ read, and therein the fair, rich and large portions, which he hath bequeathed to his children, John 17.24. Luke 12.32. but not the least mention made of any good for thee; look from the beginning of Genesis, to the end of Revelation, and see if there be one good word spoken to thee, whil'st thou art in thy natural estate. Moses like, thou mayst by the prospective of Scripture, have a Pisgah sight of Palestine, of that good Land flowing with milk and hony; but as God is true, if thou diest in unregeneracy, thou shalt never enjoy one foot of it.
The worst of a Saint is past when he dyeth; but thy worst O sinner is to come; there are some dregs in the bottom which thou art yet to drink down, thou hast thy good things here, and he his evil things; but at death he is comforted, and thou art tormented. He hath all his hell upon earth, his heaven is to come; thou hast all thy heaven on earth, and thy hell is to come when thou passest into another world; the hell of a Saint is an easy hell. But ah how hot is that hell in hell, how fiery is that furnace, how how terrible those torments? I may conceive