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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.
Death is the great thief which will rob ⟨p. 66⟩thee of all thy riches. The wealthiest Emperor, the next moment after death, hath no more than the poorest beggar. As thou camest forth of thy mothers womb, naked thou shalt return, to go as thou camest, and shalt take nothing in thy hand of all thy labour, Eccles. 5.15. That gold which thou lovest, and trustest more than God, these pebbles which thou valuest above the pearl of price, that treasure on earth, which thy heart is set upon more than on the true treasure in heaven, will all leave thee when death findeth thee.1 Mr. Rogers telleth us of one that being nigh death, clapped a twenty shilling piece in his mouth, saying, Some wiser then some, I will take this with me however; but alas poor fool, he could not be so good as his word. The Holy Ghost excellently termeth rich men; rich in this world, because riches will not make men rich in another world, 1 Tim. 6.17.
Death is the great thief which will rob ⟨p. 66⟩thee of all thy riches. The wealthiest Emperor, the next moment after death, hath no more than the poorest beggar. As thou camest forth of thy mothers wombe, naked thou shalt return, to go as thou camest, and shalt take nothing in thy hand of all thy labour, Eccles. 5.15. That gold which thou lovest, and trustest more than God, these pebbles which thou valuest above the pearl of price, that treasure on earth, which thy heart is set upon more than on the true treasure in heaven, will all leave thee when death findeth thee.1 Mr. Rogers telleth us of one that being nigh death, clapt a twenty shilling piece in his mouth, saying, Some wiser then some, I will take this with me however; but alas poor fool, he could not be so good as his word. The Holy Ghost excellently termeth rich men; rich in this world, because riches will not make men rich in another world,