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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.
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.
But this is not all, (sinner) I have not done with thee; yet I have told thee a little of thy losse; 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 accompt, and tell me whether thy wickednesse will not end in woe.
First, By death thou shalt gain a cursed perfection of sin, (if it may be called a perfection) Upon earth the most notorious sinner is a lion chained up, and kept in; but in hell he will be let loose, and then his ravenous nature and cruel disposition will appear to purpose.
1Thou yet standest in a soil (saith that accurate Writer) not so proper for the ripening of sin, which will not come to its ⟨p. 103⟩fullness, till trans-planted unto hell. Thou who art here so maidenly and modest, as to blush at some sins out of shame, and forbear the actings of others out of fear, when there thou shalt see thy case as desperate as the Devil doth his; then thou wilt spit out thy blasphemies with which thy nature is stuffed, with the same malice that he doth. The vilest man in this world Is like a swine in a fair meadow; but in the other world, there will be the wallowing in the mire. Thy heart now Is like the Sea which cannot rest, but is ever casting up mire and dirt of sin, foaming out thy own shame, yet still it is shut up with bars and doors of restraining grace; hitherto shalt thou come, and no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed; but then the doors will be opened, the banks broken down, and the flood-gates taken up; and ô what a deluge, what an overflow of sin will be there! Here if God should not put a bridle into the mouth of these unruly beasts, and hold them in, there would be no living for a Saint among them; but then when the good shall be parted from them, the reins shall be laid (in some respect) on their own necks, and then they will run