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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.
Plutarch observeth of Hannibal, he might ⟨p. 78⟩once have taken Rome, and would not; afterwards he would and could not; now God offereth thee heaven, thou choosest earth, and notwithstanding he assureth thee, that now is the only acceptable time, now is the only day of salvation, yet thou wilt not hear when he calleth; I tell thee, the day is near, when thou wouldst, but God will not; when thou shalt call, but he will not hear, and then thou shalt find no place for repentance, though Esau like, thou seek it carefully with tears; When once thy particular judgement is passed, 'twill be in vain to beg a Psalm of mercy.
Plutarch observeth of Hannibal, he might ⟨p. 78⟩once have taken Rome, and would not; afterwards he would and could not; now God offereth thee heaven, thou choosest earth, and notwithstanding he assureth thee, that now is the only acceptable time, now is the only day of salvation, yet thou wilt not hear when he calleth; I tel thee, the day is near, when thou wouldst, but God wil not; when thou shalt call, but he wil not hear, and then thou shalt find no place for repentance, though Esau like, thou seek it carefully with tears; When once thy particular judgement is pass'd, 'twil be in vain to beg a Psalm of mercy.
3. Thou shalt at death lose the society of all the godly, even of those excellent ones, in whom is the delight of Christ, Prov. 8.31. and all the delight of Christians, Psa. 16.3. It is a blessing to thee upon earth, (did the Lord but sanctify it to thee) that thy lot is cast in a Land, in a Parish, in a family, where those holy ones are, that thou mayst hear their gracious prayers, see their pious patterns, and enjoy their precious precepts.