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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.
Some Magistrates are like Mountains and Cypress trees, high and barren; but God hath •ron hands for Justices that have leaden heels, and will shortly strike them home for forswearing themselves to spare others. He will be a •error to them, and make them terrors to themselves, who will not at his command be terrors to •vil doers. They are guilty of all the sins which they can and do not hinder. They sin in others, whilst they suffer them to sin: Vitia aliorum si feras, facis tua; And they that are partakers of others sins, if we will believe the God of Truth, shall receive of their plagues, Rev. 18.4. Some show at this day, that they accept such places to honour not God, but themselves; and they shall know one day, that it were better offending all their neighbours, nay all the world, than one God.
Some Magistrates are like Mountains and Cypresse trees, high and barren; but God hath •ron hands for Justices that have leaden heels, and will shortly strike them home for forswear•ng themselves to spare others. He will be a •error to them, and make them terrors to them•elves, who will not at his command be terrors to •vil doers. They are guilty of all the sins which they can and do not hinder. They sin in others, whilst they suffer them to sin: Vitia aliorum si feras, facis tua; And they that are partakers of others sins, if we will believe the God of Truth, shall receive of their plagues, Rev. 18.4. Some shew at this day, that they accept such places to honor not God, but themselves; and they shall know one day, that it were better offending all their neighbors, nay all the world, than one God.