A62050:245
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.
Sin is ugly to a Saint on earth, notwithstanding all her gaudy attire, and painted face; but O what a deformed monster will she be in hell, when she shall be stripped of all her ornaments of pleasure and profit, and when all her paint shall be washed off with Rivers of brimstone. I thus preach, and thus think (saith Chrysostom) that it is ⟨p. 105⟩more bitter to sin against Christ, then to suffer the torments of hell. And holy Anselm saith, that if the evil of sin were proffered to him, and the torments of hell, he had rather choose hell then sin. Thus odious sin is to a godly man in this world; and surely it will not be amiable to a wicked man in the other world; but they who now glory in their shame, will then be ashamed of their glory, and find their lusts more burdensome to them (how lightly soever now they go with them) then ever Prisoners did their chains and fetters.
Sin is ugly to a Saint on earth, notwithstanding all her gaudy attire, and painted face; but O what a deformed monster wil she be in hel, when she shall be stript of all her ornaments of pleasure and profit, and when all her paint shall be washt off with Rivers of brimstone. I thus preach, and thus think (saith Chrysostome) that it is ⟨p. 105⟩more bitter to sin against Christ, then to suffer the torments of hell. And holy Anselm saith, that if the evil of sin were proffered to him, and the torments of hell, he had rather choose hell then sin. Thus odious sinne is to a godly man in this world; and surely it will not be amiable to a wicked man in the other world; but they who now glory in their shame, will then be ashamed of their glory, and find their lusts more burthensome to them (how lightly soever now they go with them) then ever Prisoners did their chains and fettets.
If thy soul be so unhealthy in so pure an air as this (comparatively) is among the Saints of God; how diseased will it be in that misty Region of darkness, in that Pest-house, among Devils and infectious spirits