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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.
Take a man that is most addicted to his pleasures, and bring him to the mouth of a furnace red hot, and flaming, and ask him, How much pleasure wouldst thou take to continue burning in this furnace for one day? he would answer undoubtedly, I would not be tormented in it one day, to gain the whole world, and all the pleasures of it; ask him a second time, what reward would ⟨p. 122⟩you take to endure this fire half a day? propound what reward you will, there is nothing so precious which he would buy at so dear a rate as those torments; and yet how comes it to pass O God, that for a little gain, and that vile; for a little honour, and that fugitive; for a little pleasure, and that fading, men so little regard hell-fire which is eternal.
Take a man that is most addicted to his pleasures, and bring him to the mouth of a furnace red hot, and flaming, and ask him, How much pleasure wouldst thou take to continue burning in this furnace for one day? he would answer undoubtedly, I would not be tormented in it one day, to gain the whole world, and all the pleasures of it; ask him a second time, what reward would ⟨p. 122⟩you take to endure this fire half a day? propound what reward you wil, there is nothing so precious which he would buy at so dear a rate as those torments; and yet how comes it to passe O God, that for a little gain, and that vile; for a little honour, and that fugitive; for a little pleasure, and that fading, men so little regard hel-fire which is eternal.
By this time I hope it is day in thine understanding,1 and thou seest clearly that there is a difference between the death of the righteous and the wicked; that as the same perfume, which is mortal to the ravenous vulture, is refreshing to the true Dove; that as the same herb which cureth men stung with Serpents killeth beasts: so the same mortal disease which cuteth the Godly of all their spiritual and bodily distempers, killeth the wicked; they are killed with death,