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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.
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 ⟨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 stript naked of them.
Thou mayest say to all the fore-mentioned delights of riches, relations, honours, and pleasures, and what ever it is which thou foolishly rejoicest in, as Charles the fifth, Emperor of Germany (whom the world counted most happy) did to his trophies, treasures and things of the like nature, A bite hinc, A bite long, Be gone▪ get you far out of my sight. Be assured that as a false harlot leaves her lovers, whe• they are arrested for debt, and followeth other customers: so this painted strumpet this deceitful world that now layeth open her fair breasts, to allure thee to go a who ring after her, and commit spiritual fornication with her, when death shall arre thee by a Writ from heaven, will wholl forsake thee, and follow them that survive now what a loss will this be?