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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, I take not delight to number the people of God, much less to lessen their number. The Lord knoweth, I have not written this Head without some sorrow of heart;1 my prayer is like that of Joabs, The Lord add unto his people an hundred fold, and grant that his sons may come from far, and his daughters from the ends of the earth, that the dominion of his son may be from Sea to Sea, and from one end of the land unto the other; but without all controversy, they are comparatively ⟨p. 139⟩very few; and why doth the Word of God mention it so much, but to make thee more diligent and violent for the Kingdom of heaven! Matth. 7.13, 14. If there were but few damned, and many saved out of the places where we live, I think it would behove thee to try upon what ground thou standest, lest thou shouldst be one of those few that must suffer the vengeance of eternal fire; but when so many, when such multitudes go in the broad way that leadeth to destruction, when the love of many waxeth cold; and tis but an he almost that shall endure to the end, and be saved, Matth. 24.12. how much, how much doth it concern thee to look about thee, that all things are right within betwixt God and thy soul!
Reader, I take not delight to number the people of God, much lesse to lessen their number. The Lord knoweth, I have not written this Head without some sorrow of heart;1 my prayer is like that of Joabs, The Lord adde unto his people an hundred fold, and grant that his sons may come from far, and his daughters from the ends of the earth, that the dominion of his son may be from Sea to Sea, and from one end of the land unto the other; but without all controversie, they are comparatively ⟨p. 139⟩very few; and why doth the Word of God mention it so much, but to make thee more diligent and violent for the Kingdome of heaven!