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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
Dedication: TO THE WORSHIPFUL And my esteemed Friend RICHARD BERESFORD Esquire, Justice of the Peac…
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.
You have begun well with your honoured* Uncle, my loving Friend, to beat up those head-quarters of hell, Ale-houses. I wish you both an happy progress, and their ungodly disorders a speedy conclusion. Foolish pity to mens sins is the greatest cruelty to their souls: Favour or connivance encourageth them in their rebellions, encourageth them in their rebellions, and increaseth their corruptions, and thereby furthereth their damnation; when the faithful wounds of wholesome severity (if God have any sanctifying or saving mercy for ⟨image 6⟩•hem) may reform and heal them. You cannot easily do them a greater injury, than to let •hem alone in their enormities. One of the greatest strokes that ever Israel felt from •he hand of God, was not to be stricken, Isai. •.5.
You have begun well with your honoured* Uncle, my loving Friend, to beat up those head-quarters of hell, Ale-houses. I wish you both an happie progress, and their ungodly disorders a speedie conclusion. Foolish pitie to mens sins is the greatest crueltie to their souls: Favour or connivence encourageth them in their rebellions, encourageth them in their reb•llions, and encreaseth their corruptions, and thereby furthereth their damnation; when the faithful wounds of wholsom severitie (if God have any sanctifying or saving mercie for ⟨image 6⟩•hem) may reform and heal them. You cannot easily do them a greater injurie, than to let •hem alone in their enormities. One of the greatest stroaks that ever Israel felt from •he hand of God, was not to be stricken, Isai. •.5.