A62050:251
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 the wrath of a King be as the roaring of a Lyon; O what is the wrath of God! and if his wrath be so terrible in this world, where there is ever some mixture of mercy with it, what will it be in the other world, when the soul shall have a cup of pure wrath to drink, when God shall show the unconceivableness ⟨p. 109⟩of his strength, in tormenting the creature,1 and preserving it to feel those torments? (Who knoweth the power of his anger? Psal. 90.11.) there will be tribulation and anguish, indignation and wrath on the soul of every man that doth evil, Rom. 2.8, 9. There is fire to burn, and brimstone to choke, Matth 13.40. and chains to bind, and serpents to sting, and worms to gnaw, Mark 9.44. Jude 12. and darkness to affright; there is variety, universality, and extremity of torments.* Augustine admires it, and saith, that for vehemency of heat it exceeds our fire, as much as ours doth fire painted on the wall. But the sufferings of thy soul will be the soul of thy sufferings; the worm that never dyeth, will be the killing death, when thou shalt remember all thy former sinful pleasures, of which nothing remaineth but thy present shame and pain; when thou shalt reflect upon the former offers thou hast had, of all the dainties which others feed on in heaven, and despair now of ever obtaining the least crumb that falleth from the Masters table; when thou shalt fore-see the great and terrible day of the Lord Jesus, the re-uniting of thy body to thy soul, the ⟨p. 110⟩easeless and endless torments which soul and body must endure together;3