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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.
If a partial Eclipse of the Sun cause such a drooping in the whole Creation; what will a total Eclipse of this Sun cause? how mournfully doth Micah bemoan the loss of of his dunghill deity! Ye have taken away my gods, and what have I mor•e and what is this that ye say unto me, what aileth thee? Judg. 18.24. surely the damned, as they will have infinitely more cause, so they will with more horror and anguish bewail the loss of the true God; though all the tears in hell are not sufficient to bewail the loss of this heaven. If the body from which the soul is parted be such a deformed sad spectacle, what shall the condition of that soul be, from which God is parted for ever?
If a partial Eclipse of the Sun cause such a drooping in the whole Creation; what will a total Eclipse of this Sun cause? how mournfully doth Micah bemoan the losse of of his dunghil deity! Ye have taken away my gods, and what have I mor•e and what is this that ye say unto me, what aileth thee? Judg. 18.24. surely the damned, as they will have infinitely more cause, so they will with more horrour and anguish bewail the losse of the true God; though all the tears in hell are not sufficient to bewail the losse of this heaven. If the body from which the soul is parted be such a deformed sad spectacle, what shall the condition of that soul be, from which God is parted for ever?
How unable are the children of God to bear the absence of God in this life, though it be but in part, and for a short time; take Heman, Psal. 88.14, 15. Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me? I am afflicted, and ready to die, while I suffer thy terrors, I am distracted. Observe the good man is at deaths door, and no wonder, when as to his apprehension the life of his soul had left him: for though no man can see the essential face of God, and live; yet no Saint can live, unless