A62050:216
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.
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 ⟨p. 83⟩of the form, which are not laid in oil, in the power of godliness, will be washed off at death, Matth. 25.8. Or it is likely, thou enjoyest the privileges of the Gospel; Sabbaths, Sacraments, and the seasons of grace are the bladders, with the help of which (without an inward change) thou thinkest to swim to heaven; dost thou not know that many go to hell fire with Font-water on their faces, and from the table, to the tormentor? Matth. 22.13. that Esau a cast-away, and Ishmael an out-cast, had both Abram to their father; and so had they whom truth it self assureth, that they were of their father the devil, John 8.44. Circumcision availeth nothing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature, Gal. 6.15. All such things are but lying words, where an internal work of grace is wanting, Jer. 7.4, 5, 6.
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 drest in the Robes, and for a quarter of an houre 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 ⟨p. 83⟩of the form, which are not laid in oyl, in the power of godlinesse, wil be wash't off at death, Matth. 25.8. Or it is likely, thou enjoyest the priviledges of the Gospel; Sabbaths, Sacraments, and the seasons of grace are the bladders, with the help of which (without an inward change) thou thinkest to swim to heaven; do'st thou not know that many go to hel fire with Font-water on their faces, and from the table, to the tormentour?