A62050:263
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.
Consider this, ye that forget God, lest he tear you in pieces, when there is none to deliver you, Psal. 50.22. Good God! whether is man fallen? what desperate hardness hath seized on his heart, that he should be every moment liable to such a boundless, bottomless sea of scalding wrath, and yet as insensible of it, as if it did no whit concern ⟨p. 119⟩him; Ah did but the seduced world believe thy word, they would mind other works than now they do.
Consider this, ye that forget God, lest he tear you in pieces, when there is none to deliver you, Psal. 50.22. Good God! whether is man fallen? what desperate hardnesse hath seised on his heart, that he should be every moment liable to such a boundless, bottomlesse sea of scalding wrath, and yet as insensible of it, as if it did no whit concern ⟨p. 119⟩him; Ah did but the seduced world believe thy word, they would mind other works than now they do.
But Reader, what is thy judgment? is not the mirth of every sinner that maketh a mock of sin worse than madness? Should not the sting in sins tail debtor thee more than the false beauty of its face allure thee? Shalt thou look hence forward upon the most delightful sin as any better than Claudius his mushroom, pleasant, and poison? Well, whoever thou art that readest this Use, be confident all this, and ten thousand times more is thy birth-right; thou art by nature an heir to this estate, that lieth in the valley of Hinnom: All this is the wages due to thee for thy service to sin; sin payeth all that die its servants in such black money; and shouldst thou go out of this world before thou art new-born, thou shalt as certainly find and feel more than all this in the other world, as there is a God in heaven, and as thou art a living creature on earth. The God of truth hath spoken it, and who shall dis-annul it?