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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 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
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 darknesse, in that Pest-house, among Divels and infectious spirits
2. Thou shalt gain by death a fullness of sorrow; when thy sins come to their highest degree, then will thy sorrows likewise, both in regard of intention and duration.
2. Thou shalt gain by death a fulnesse of sorrow; when thy sins come to their highest degree, then will thy sorrows likewise, both in regard of intention and duration.
1. In regard of intention; and how great this will be, I am not able to tell thee. When one was desired to paint the Spanish Inquisition, he took a Table and besmeared ⟨p. 106⟩it with blood, implying the torments were so cruel and bloody, that his pencil could not delineate them. Sure I am Phaleris Bull, Low-country wracks, and all out-landish tortures whatsoever, are but plays and bug-bears to the sufferings of the damned; There are no sorrows like to their sorrows, wherewith the Lord afflicteth them in the day of his fierce wrath;1 If the wrath of God be kindled but a little, and a spark thereof light into the conscience of a Saint, what a work doth it make? there is no rest in his flesh, nor quiet in his bones; when the arrows of the Almighty stick within him, the poison thereof soon drinks up his spirits.