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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.
4. When thou diest, thou shalt lose all thy hope (or presumption rather.) Thy dead hope (for Saints only have a lively hope, 1 Pet. 1.3.) will fail thee at death. As thou hast no true holiness, so thou canst have no true hope; but something 'tis likely thou hast, upon which thou reliest as to thy future estate. It may be, thou hast the good things of this life, and thence concludest thy right to a better life; as if because the great House-keeper of the world throweth some bones to the dogs, therefore he must love them with a paternal love; thou dost not consider, their houses may be full of gold, whose hearts are empty of grace, and whose souls shall assuredly come short of glory, Job 22.17, 18. Psal. 17.13, 14.
4. When thou diest, thou shalt lose all thy hope (or presumption rather.) Thy dead hope (for Saints only have a lively hope, 1 Pet. 1.3.) wil fail thee at death. As thou hast no true holiness, so thou canst have no true hope; but something 'tis likely thou hast, upon which thou reliest as to thy future estate. It may be, thou hast the good things of this life, and thence concludest thy right to a better life; as if because the great House-keeper of the world throweth some bones to the dogs, therefore he must love them with a paternal love; thou do'st not consider, their houses may be full of gold, whose hearts are empty of grace, and whose souls shall assuredly come short of glory, Job 22.17, 18. Psal. 17.13, 14.
It may be it is thy profession of Religion, that holds thee up by the chin, and keepeth from sinking; as if because a stage-player is dressed in the Robes, and for a quarter of an hour acteth the part of a King, he must therefore have a real right to the Dignity, Dominions, and Revenues of the Regal Office, not believing that those colours