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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.
1When a gracious man dieth, his hope is perfected in the fruition of all (and ten thousand times more then) he hoped for; when a graceless man dieth, his hope perisheth, in an utter disappointment of all that he (though with little reason) so much expected.
- 1Improbidū spirant sperant: justus etiam cum expirat sperat.Improbidū spirant sperant: justus etiam cum expirat sperat.
5. Thou shalt lose by death thy precious soul; this will be a loss indeed; the ⟨p. 87⟩price of this pearl is not known to thee on earth, but it will be fully known in hell; this one head Reader, didst thou but understand what is included in it, would stab thee to the heart; and the thought of this one loss, would be enough to embitter the comforts of thy whole life. The soul of man is called the man, Job. 4.19. though not in a natural,1 yet in a moral consideration (saith one upon that place) it being the most noble, the most excellent part of man; and 'tis usual to denominate the whole from the better part. The body is but an house of clay, its foundation is in the earth; but the soul the inhabitant in this house, is of an Angelical, spiritual nature; The generation of this was from heaven. Zachariah 12.1.
5. Thou shalt lose by death thy precious soul; this wil be a losse indeed; the ⟨p. 87⟩price of this pearl is not known to thee on earth, but it wil be fully known in hel; this one head Reader, didst thou but understand what is included in it, would stab thee to the heart; and the thought of this one losse, would be enough to imbitter the comforts of thy whole life. The soul of man is called the man,