A62050:274
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.
And the rather shouldst thou try thy soul throughly, because shouldst thou content thy self with a counterfeit Title to heaven, (as most men and women amongst us do) by virtue only of some deeds which the devil and thy carnal heart have forged, and shouldst so die, thou wouldst assuredly be dealt with as a cheat, and cast into the prison of hell, and then thy condition will be most lamentable, because it will be irrecoverable.
And the rather shouldst thou try thy soul throughly, because shouldst thou content thy self with a counterfeit Title to heaven, (as most men and women amongst us do) by vertue only of some deeds which the divel and thy carnal heart have forged, and shouldst so dy, thou wouldst assuredly be dealt with as a cheat, and cast into the prison of hell, and then thy condition will be most lamentable, because it will be irrecoverable.
If thou missest at all when thou diest, thou missest for all and for ever: An error then can never be mended; there can be no second throw cast, no second Edition come forth to correct the errors of the former; but the great work for which thou wert born not being done, thou art undone to eternity; and then (as godly ⟨p. 126⟩men befool themselves in this world, while they live, Psal. 73.2. for their corruption, so) thou wilt befool thy self in the other world, when thou diest for thy presumption, Jer. 17.11. that thou shouldst think the rotten props of a little profession of a few outward privileges, and inward good meanings (as thou callest them) could bear the weight of thy soul and thine endless state, that thou shouldst build so slightly for a dwelling of perpetuity. Set thy heart therefore to all the words that I speak unto thee; for it is not a vain thing, but it is for thy life,