A62050:197
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.
Be not afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased; for when he dieth, he shall carry nothing away, 1his glory shall not descend after him, Psa. 49.16, 17. Death is the great leveller, making Princes and Peasants equal.
Be not afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is encreased; for when he dieth, he shall carry nothing away, 1his glory shall not descend after him, Psa. 49.16, 17. Death is the great leveller, making Princes and Peasants equal.
- 1Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat.
All thy sinful pleasures will also be lost; the sweet taste thou foundest in thy mouth will be gone, though they will rise in thy stomach, and after in thy belly be more bitter than gall. Thy merry meetings, jovial companions, witty jests, sporting, recreations, pictures for thine eyes, music for thine ears, dainties for thy taste, thine eating and drinking, and all these delights ⟨p. 68⟩on earth, which thou solacest thy sensual soul with, (desiring no other heaven) will all like leaves in the Autumn of thy death, fall off from thee; though in the short summer of thy life, thou art richly laden with them; yet in thy long, thine everlasting Winter, thou shalt be stripped naked of them.
All thy sinful pleasures will also be lost; the sweet taste thou foundest in thy mouth wil be gone, though they wil rise in thy stomach, and after in thy belly be more bitter than gall. Thy merry meetings, jovial companions, witty jests, sporting, recreations, pictures for thine eyes, musick for thine ears, dainties for thy taste, thine eating and drinking, and all these delights