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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.
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? Matth. 18.3. Matth. 5.20. John 3.3. though thou art not actually under it, yet then art every moment liable to it; this cloud of blood hangs ⟨p. 120⟩night and day over thy head, and thou knowest not how soon it may break and shower down upon thee. The decree and sentence is already passed in heaven, that thou who turnest not in time, shalt burn to eternity; and thou canst not tell how soon God may seal the warrant for thy execution.
But Reader, what is thy judgment? is not the mirth of every sinner that maketh a mock of sin worse than madnesse? Should not the sting in sins tail deterre 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 mushrome, 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 mony; 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?