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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.
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.
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 passe among men, but God knowes the heart.
- 1Cambd. Brit.
All is not gold that glisters, nor is all grace that makes a fair show in the flesh; there is much counterfeit coin in the world, that goeth currant among men, as if it were as good as the best; so there is a great deal of counterfeit holiness in the world, a great deal of civility, of morality, of common grace, which is taken (or rather mistaken) by men for true saving grace; much fancy is taken for faith, presumption for hope, self-love for Saint love, and worldly sighs for godly sorrow.