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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.
Reader, take heed this be not thy case, that thou like Uriah carriest letters about thee, importing thy own execution, and yet thou not know of it; it is ordinary for men to think they are spiritually rich, and increased with good, and to have need of nothing, and not to know that they are wretched and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked, Revel. 3.17. they cry like Agag, Surely the bitterness of death is past; there is no fear of death, of wrath, of hell, or damnation, when they are liable every moment to be hewn in pieces before the Lord, to be torn in pieces by the roaring lion: O how many a precious vessel (soul I mean) hath been split upon this rock of presumption! Doth it not therefore concern thee to be serious and faithful in searching thy heart, lest thou shouldst (as the most) deceive thy self about a business of such unspeakable consequence?
Reader, take heed this be not thy case, that thou like Uriah carriest letters about thee, importing thy own execution, and yet thou not know of it; it is ordinary for men to think they are spiritually rich, and increased with good, and to have need of nothing, and not to know that they are wretched and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked, Revel. 3.17. they cry like Agag, Surely the bitternesse of death is past; there is no fear of death, of wrath, of hell, or damnation, when they are liable every moment to be hewn in pieces before the Lord, to be torn in pieces by the roaring lion: O how many a precious vessel (soul I mean) hath been split upon this rock of presumption! Doth it not therefore concern thee to be serious and faithful in searching thy heart, lest thou shouldst (as the most) deceive thy self about a businesse of such unspeakable consequence?
Secondly, consider the fewness of them that have Christ for their life, or that live ⟨p. 133⟩