A62050:194
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.
1. By death thou shalt lose all thy earthly delights; and carnal contentments; The table of thy life possibly is richly spread with variety of outward enjoyments, riches, relations, honours, pleasures, beauty, and bravery: but death will come in with a voider, and take all away. It is called an unclothing, 2 Cor. 5.4. and indeed it will strip thee naked of all such garments, and ornaments; Thine eye shall no more see good, Job 7.7. i. e. the good things of this life, they will all die with thee, as to thy use and comfort. It is a doleful expression of Abram to Dives, Thou hadst, or thou receivedst thy good things in thy life-time, Luk. 16.25. O what a cutting word was that to his heart, when he was passed into another world, Remember there was a time when thou and they were joined together, but now ye are parted for ever; to have been happy,1 was no small aggravation of his misery; It is with thee while in this world, as it was with the Jews, in the Vineyards and fields of their Neighbours, pluck and eat they might while there, but pocket up, and carry away they might not. Deut. 23.24, 25.
1. By death thou shalt lose all thy earthly delights; and carnal contentments; The table of thy life possibly is richly spread with variety of outward enjoyments, riches, relations, honours, pleasures, beauty, and bravery: but death will come in with a voider, and take all away. It is called an uncloathing, 2 Cor. 5.4. and indeed it wil strip thee naked of all such garments, and ornaments; Thine eye shall no more see good, Job 7.7. i. e. the good things of this life, they will all die with thee, as to thy use and comfort. It is a doleful expression of Abram to Dives, Thou hadst, or thou receivedst thy good things in thy life-time, Luk. 16.25