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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
Dedication: TO THE WORSHIPFUL And my esteemed Friend RICHARD BERESFORD Esquire, Justice of the Peac…
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.
Secondly, As you are a Magistrate. And that relation calleth upon you to be very exemplary among men, and exceeding active for God▪
Man is a creature which is led more by the eye than the ear, by patterns than precepts. Great men therefore which are copies, after which many write, had need to be exact. You are the looking-glasses by which others dress themselves; the heads of the people, Deut. 1.15. now the whole body will go along with the head.
Man is a creature which is led more by the eye than the ear, by patterns than precepts. Great men therefore which are copies, after which many write, had need to be exact. You are the looking-glasses by which others dresse themselves; the heads of the people, Deut. 1.15. now the whole body will go along with the head.
1You are like Beacons upon an hill, visible to all. The Sun may as soon go unseen, as a Justice unobserved. A small Star may be darkened, and none take notice of it; but if the great Luminaries are eclipsed or obscured, a thousand eyes will be gazing on them. A little spot in silk or scarlet is more looked on, than a great one in russet or sackcloth. A crack in a pebble is nothing so eyed or prejudicial, as a small flaw in a jewel. Corruptio optimi pessima. Satan doth therefore plant his strongest batteries against the Royal Forts of Magistracy and Ministry (whoever are spared, David and Peter shall be sifted) knowing that he gaineth a double advantage by their miscarriage, example and scandal; by which two wings it will soar higher, and fly much farther An ordinary