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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.
Alas, how very very few are there that will be persuaded to cast up their spiritual accounts; but like men that we say are worse than naught, loath the thoughts of looking into, or summing up their estates; or like some women, when they come to be old, turn the back-side of their looking-glasses towards them, as unwilling to see their own wrinkles, and deformity.
Alas, how very very few are there that will be perswaded to cast up their spiritual accompts; but like men that we say are worse than naught, loath the thoughts of looking into, or summing up their estates; or like some women, when they come to be old, turn the back-side of their looking-glasses towards them, as unwilling to see their own wrinckles, and deformity.
And of those that do sometimes examine themselves, how many are there that do it slightly and superficially, contenting themselves with false marks, quickly believing what they would have, even all to be well till they are sent to be undeceived in hell?
And of those that do sometimes examine themselves, how many are there that do it sleightly and superficially, contenting themselves with false marks, quickly believing what they would have, even all to be well till they are sent to be undeceived in hell?
Maud mother to King Henry the second, being besieged at Oxford, she got away with white apparel in the snow undiscovered.1 So do many hypocrites with their profession of snow like purity pass among men, but God knows the heart.