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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.
The Egyptians three days darkness was esteemed a sore plague, but what will thy punishment (O sinner) be, when thou ⟨p. 115⟩shalt suffer utter darkness, blackness of darkness for ever, Jude v. 12. Ah wounding word, ever, ever; the most cutting word in comparison of it is healing; the bitterest word, in respect of this, is sweet; Despair will be the cutting off of all hope; and to have hope, the anchor of the soul, cut off, will be the deepest cut in the world; then the vessel of the soul will be liable to all storms and tempests imaginable.
The Egyptians three dayes darknesse was esteemed a sore plague, but what will thy punishment (O sinner) be, when thou ⟨p. 115⟩shalt suffer utter darknesse, blacknesse of darknesse for ever, Jude v. 12. Ah wounding word, ever, ever; the most cutting word in comparison of it is healing; the bitterest word, in respect of this, is sweet; Despair will be the cutting off of all hope; and to have hope, the anchor of the soul, cut off, will be the deepest cut in the world; then the vessel of the soul will be liable to all storms and tempests imaginable.
Suppose that one of thy hands were to continue burning in one of our fires, as many millions of years, as there have been minutes since the Creation, couldst thou undergo it with any patience? what thinkest thou of it? Alas! this were a mercy, a heaven to the misery of men in hell; what wilt thou do when thy whole man shall suffer the vengeance of eternal fire? Jude 7. Who can dwell with the devouring fire? who can dwell with everlasting burnings?