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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.
But it may be thou comfortest thy self against ⟨p. 69⟩this, that all, even good as well as bad will join with thee in this loss. Reader, dost thou consider, that they who enjoy the stars all night, and come in the morning instead thereof to enjoy the glorious Sun, are no losers; the Sun hath all the light of the stars, and far far more; Neither can the godly be properly called losers of these comforts, because they enjoy them all, and infinitely more in the blessed God; As money answereth all things, Prov. 10.19. Money is equivalently sheep, oxen, corn, meat, drink, cloth, whatsoever you want for this life, is virtually in money; so God to a gracious soul after death will answer all things, he will be eminently and virtually, Father, Mother, wife, child, wealth, honour, pleasure and all things; though he loseth them here, he will find them there and much more; but when thou O sinner losest them in this world, they shall never be made up to thee in another world; thou losest not only the streams, but the fountain; not only the beams, but the Sun; and therefore thy portion will be scorching, drought, and dismal darkness Besides, these things are not the portion, the all of a good man, they are not his estate, ⟨p. 70⟩or inheritance, they are but an additional over-plus, cast in over and above. So much the words of Christ imply, Matth. 6.33. And all other things shall be added to you. As when a father giveth his son a thousand pounds worth of ware, he casteth in paper and packthread; or one thousand yards of cloth, he doth not stand upon the breadth of the thumb, which is to be allowed in measuring; so God having given himself and his Son to his Saints, out of his vast bounty, casteth in the creatures as an over-plus; they are not their estate or portion, or all; no, when a godly man at the great and terrible day of the Lord Jesus, shall see his house, and land, and outward good things in that common flame, which shall burn up the earth, he may then behold it with comfort,1 and say with the Philosopher, I have my all still.