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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.
Well friend, the great question which I shall put to thee, will be this; Canst thou say,1 To thee to live is Christ? thy gain by death dependeth on this, Examine thy self throughly, prove thy self, whither thou art in the faith or no, 2 Cor. 13.5. The Eagle trieth her young ones by the Sun, whether they be of the right brood or no, as some affirm; do thou try thy self by this Sun of righteousness, by this life in Christ, by thine engrafting into Christ. Ask thy soul whether it be acquainted with the new birth, the new Creation, the Divine nature, the renewing in the spirit of thy ⟨p. 127⟩mind, the sanctification of the Spirit, the walking after the Spirit, the Image of God, the writing of his Laws in thy heart, the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ, effectual calling; unless thou hast that one thing signified by all these things, thou hast nothing; then and not till then, thou hast crossed thy line, shot the gulf, art safely landed in Christ, and hast attained that which ever accompanieth salvation.
Wel friend, the great question which I shall put to thee, will be this; Canst thou say,1 To thee to live is Christ? thy gain by death dependeth on this, Examine thy self throughly, prove thy self, whither thou art in the faith or no, 2 Cor. 13.5. The Eagle tryeth her young ones by the Sun, whether they be of the right brood or no, as some affirm; do thou try thy self by this Sun of righteousnesse, by this life in Christ, by thine ingraffing into Christ. Ask thy soul whether it be acquainted with the new birth, the new Creation, the Divine nature, the renewing in the spirit of thy ⟨p. 127⟩mind, the sanctification of the Spirit, the walking after the Spirit, the Image of God, the writing of his Laws in thy heart, the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ, effectual calling; unlesse thou hast that one thing signified by all these things, thou hast nothing; then and not till then, thou hast crost thy line, shot the gulph, art safely landed in Christ, and hast attained that which ever accompanieth salvation.