A62050:28
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
Dedication: TO THE WORSHIPFUL And my esteemed Friend RICHARD BERESFORD Esquire, Justice of the Peac…
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.
David was the song of the drunkards, and the scorn of the gluttons; and the Son of David, that pattern of patterns,1 was set for a sign to be spoken against, and endured the contradiction of sinners, Hebr. 12.3. I hope you set your watch not by the Parish clock, but by the dial of scripture, which ever goeth true with the Sun of Righteousness.
In a word, your time is little, your work is great; your talents are many, your account will be weighty; your Saviour observeth every moment how tender you are of his honour, that was so tender of your eternal welfare; how you testify your thankfulness to him, for all the bitter agony, and ignominy, which he suffered for you. You shall shortly never more have the least opportunity (though you would give a thousand worlds for it) to do any thing in, for Gods glory, your own or others good. Work therefore the work of him that sent you into the world, while it is the day of your life, for the night of death is hastening on you, wherein you cannot work: Up and be doing, as a Christian, as a Magistrate, and the Lord be with you.
In a word, your time is little, your work is great; your talents are many, your account will be weighty; your Saviour observeth every moment how tender you are of his honor, that was so tender of your eternal welfare; how you testifie your thankfulnesse to him, for all the bitter agony, and ignominy, which he suffered for you. You shall shortly never more have the least opportunitie (though you would give a thousand worlds for it) to do any thing in, for Gods glorie, your own or others good. Work therefore the work of him that sent you into the world, while it is the day of your life, for the night of death is hastening on you, wherein you cannot work: Up and be doing, as a Christian, as a Magistrate, and the Lord be with you.