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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 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 ⟨p. 62⟩somewhat the damned feel most, but no tongue can express them.
The worst of a Saint is past when he dyeth; but thy worst O sinner is to come; there are some dregs in the bottome 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 easie hell. But ah how hot is that hel in hel, how fiery is that furnace, how how terrible those torments? I may conceive ⟨p. 62⟩somewhat the damned feel most, but no tongue can expresse them.
But it may be, Friend, thou art one that thrivest in this world, and therefore dost not trouble thy head, much less thy heart, with the things of another world; thou art unwilling to put a spoonful of those thoughts into thy sauce, least it should make thy meat unsavoury, it would mar thy mirth, and spoil thy sports. As Sigismund the Emperor, did not love the pronunciation of the Greek Zeta, because it represented the gnashing teeth of a dying man; so thou art resolved to banish such enemies (as thou thinkest) out of thy coasts, and like a bear, to go down that steep hill of death backward. But know thou, O man, that whether thou wilt consider of thy death beforehand or no, it is hastening upon thee; though thou puttest it far from thee, whether thou wilt or no it draweth nigh to thee; the ship moveth not so fast in the waters, nor the Sun in the heavens, as thou art hastening towards thy long, thine everlasting home, and then death will bring thee up a reckoning for all thy sweet morsels, merry meetings, time and talents whatsoever; believe it then, thou wilt have