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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 O sinners, herein will be a part of thy misery, that thou shalt for ever be banished ⟨p. 81⟩their company; now possibly thou thinkest the Parish the worse for such strict inhabitants, thy dwelling the worse for such precise Neighbours, thy family the worse for such an humble zealous child, or servant; now thou dost not know what thou gainest, when thou hast their society, but thou shalt know what thou losest, when thou hast lost them to eternity.
But O sinners, herein wil be a part of thy misery, that thou shalt for ever be banish't ⟨p. 81⟩their company; now possibly thou thinkest the Parish the worse for such strict inhabitants, thy dwelling the worse for such precise Neighbours, thy family the worse for such an humble zealous child, or servant; now thou do'st not know what thou gainest, when thou hast their society, but thou shalt know what thou losest, when thou hast lost them to eternity.
If Cicero did so bewail his banishment from the Roman Moralists, that though the Countries through which he travelled, did him much honour, yet he would often look towards Italy with sighs and tears; and if the Disciples wept so much for the loss of Paul, they fell about his neck, and kissed him and wept; sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more in this world, Acts 20.37, 38. how wilt thou sigh and sob, weep and wail, when thou shalt be parted from them in the other world?
If Cicero did so bewail his banishment from the Romane Moralists, that though the Countries through which he travelled, did him much honour, yet he would often look towards Italy with sighs and tears; and if the Disciples wept so much for the losse of Paul, they fell about his neck, and kissed him and wept; sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more in this world,