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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.
Reader, if thou art not new-born, put this case to thy self, and ask thy soul what it will do in such an hour, when the grave shall come with an habeas corpus for thy body, and the Devil with an habeas animam for thy soul; when thy soul shall leave this dwelling of thy body, and pass naked of all its comforts into a far country, where Devils and damned spirits are the inhabitants, where screeching, yelling, and howling, is the language, where fire and brimstone is the meat, and a cup of pure wrath without the least mixture is the drink, where weeping and wailing is their calling, where a killing death is all their life. Assure thy self if thou diest unsanctified, thou wilt find far more, and worse then all this.
Reader, if thou art not new-born, put this case to thy self, and ask thy soul what it wil do in such an hour, when the grave shall come with an habeas corpus for thy body, and the Divel with an habeas animam for thy soul; when thy soul shall leave this dwelling of thy body, and passe naked of all its comforts into a far countrey, where Divels and damned spirits are the inhabitants, where screeching, yelling, and howling, is the language, where fire and brimstone is the meat, and a cup of pure wrath without the least mixture is the drink, where weeping and wailing is their calling, where a killing death is all their life. Assure thy self if thou diest unsanctified, thou wilt find far more, and worse then all this.
O my soul, saith Bernard, what a terrible day shall that be,1 when thou shalt leave this mansion, and enter into an unknown Region? who can deliver thee from those ramping Lyons? who shall defend thee from those hellish monsters.
- 1Bern. medita.