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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, Is it not so? let conscience speak; and canst thou read these lines without blushing and heart-breaking, that thou shouldest spend more time and strength upon thy beasts than upon that soul which truth it self saith, is more worth than a world? Matth. 16.26. which is created capable of such an high work, as pleasing, glorifying, and enjoying God, and of such an happy reward as the immediate and eternal fruition of, and communion with his infinite majesty in heaven! Well, this soul thus despised, when lost, though then too late, will be esteemed. Hell will read thee such a Lecture of thy souls worth, that it will make thee understand it, and believe it whether thou wilt or no, and then thou shalt have time enough (in that eternity in which thy soul shall be lost) to befool thy self for thy desperate madness, in gratifying thy brutish flesh, and thus basely neglecting thy soul, that heaven-born Spirit.
Reader, Is it not so? let conscience speak; and canst thou read these lines without blushing and heart-breaking, that thou shouldest spend more time and strength upon thy beasts than upon that soul which truth it self saith, is more worth than a world? Matth. 16.26. which is created capable of such an high work, as pleasing, glorifying, and enjoying God, and of such an happy reward as the immediate and eternal fruition of, and communion with his infinite majesty in heaven! Well, this soul thus despised, when lost, though then too late, will be esteemed. Hell will read thee such a Lecture of thy souls worth, that it will make thee understand it, and believe it whether thou wilt or no, and then thou shalt have time enough (in that eternity in which thy soul shall be lost) to befool thy self for thy desperate madnesse, in gratifying thy bruitish flesh, and thus basely neglecting thy soul, that heaven-born Spirit.
Sixthly, Thou shalt by death lose the infinitely blessed God; this is the loss of losses, the misery of miseries, the very hell of hell, such a loss as there was never the like before it, nor ever shall be again after it, such a loss as no tongue can express, as no heart can conceive, yet such a loss as thou shalt know fully, when experimentally. The four first losses might have been born with comfort and delight by the person that had but gained this good, and the first could not have been without this. The eternal death of the soul consisteth in its farthest separation from that God, whose favour is far better than life. This is the lowest round in that ladder, by which thou shalt descend into the bottomless pit. This is the foot of this black bloody account, the head of that arrow which pierceth the hearts of the damned.