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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.
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.
Sixthly, Thou shalt by death lose the infinitely blessed God; this is the losse 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.
This is the worst effect and fruit of sin, that it is privative of our union with and fruition of God:1 Depart from me is as terrible a word as everlasting fire: Ah whether do they go, that go from him? when he alone hath the power of eternal life: how dismal, how dark must that dungeon be, where this Sun will not shine in the least ⟨p. 96⟩