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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.
Now tell me whether the sinful wretch be not a loser by death, when he shall lose all his wealth, friends, and opportunities of grace, the company of all the Saints, all his false hopes of heaven, his precious soul, and the ever blessed God; & tell me whither sin, how sweet soever it be in the commission, will not be bitter in the conclusion; whether in such an hour, the Devil will not pay thee thy full wages, for all thy wicked works; ⟨p. 102⟩whether it be worth the while to continue in thine unregenerate estate, though thou couldst gain never so much, when it will certainly end in such inestimable loss. In a word, answer me whether the greatest pleasure thou canst gain for thy flesh, the greatest addition thou canst gain to thy estate, by a sinful irreligious life, can countervail the everlasting loss of God and thy soul.
Now tell me whether the sinful wretch be not a loser by death, when he shall lose all his wealth, friends, and opportunities of grace, the company of all the Saints, all his false hopes of heaven, his precious soul, and the ever blessed God; & tel me whither sin, how sweet soever it be in the commission, will not be bitter in the conclusion; whether in such an hour, the Devil will not pay thee thy full wages, for all thy wicked works; ⟨p. 102⟩whether it be worth the while to continue in thine unregenerate estate, though thou couldst gain never so much, when it will certainly end in such inestimable losse. In a word, answer me whether the greatest pleasure thou canst gain for thy flesh, the greatest addition thou canst gain to thy estate, by a sinful irreligious life, can countervail the everlasting losse of God and thy soul.
But this is not all, (sinner) I have not done with thee; yet I have told thee a little of thy loss; for the whole of it, no tongue can tell, no pen can write; I will now tell thee thy gain by death, and then do thou cast up the account, and tell me whether thy wickedness will not end in woe.