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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.
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.1 A Saint is as the Proverb is in Africa, A man whose coming is prosperous; this churlish Laban could confess, ⟨p. 79⟩Gen. 30.27. and the Heathenish Egyptian found by experience, Gen. 39.2. All the Country fareth the better for a good and rich Christian, he eateth not his morsels alone, but keepeth open house for all comers.
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 sanctifie 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.1 A Saint is as the Proverb is in Africa, A man whose coming is prosperous; this churlish Laban could confesse, ⟨p. 79⟩Gen. 30.27. and the Heathenish Egyptian found by experience,