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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.
That which is said of the Elephant, that being guilty of his deformity, he cannot abide to look on his face in the water (but seeks for troubled and muddy channels) we see well moralized in men of evil conscience, who know their souls are so filthy, that they dare not so much as view them, but shift off all checks of their former iniquity, with the excuses of good fellowship. Whence it is that every small reprehension galls them, because it calls the eye of the soul home •o it self, and makes them see a glimpse of what they would not: So have I seen a foolish and timorous patient, which knowing his wound very deep, would ⟨p. 143⟩not endure the Chirurgeon to search it; whereon what can ensue, but a festering of the part, and a danger of the whole body? so have I seen many prodigal wasters run so far in books, that they cannot abide to hear of a reckoning; It hath been an old and true Proverb; Oft and even reckonings make long friends; I will oft sum my estate with God, that I may know what I have to expect and answer for; neither shall my score run on so long with God, that I shall not know my debts, or fear an audit, or despair of pardon.
That which is said of the Elephant, that being guilty of his deformity, he cannot abide to look on his face in the water (but seeks for troubled and muddy channels) we see well moralized in men of evil conscience, who know their souls are so filthy, that they dare not so much as view them, but shift off all checks of their former iniquity, with the excuses of good fellowship. Whence it is that every small reprehension galls them, because it calls the eye of the soul home •o it self, and makes them see a glimpse of what they would not: So have I seen a foolish and timerous patient, which knowing his wound very deep, would ⟨p. 143⟩not endure the Chirurgion to search it; whereon what can ensue, but a festering of the part, and a danger of the whole body? so have I seen many prodigal wasters run so far in books, that they cannot abide to hear of a reckoning; It hath been an old and true Proverb; Oft and even reckonings make long friends; I will oft summe my estate with God, that I may know what I have to expect and answer for; neither shall my score run on so long with God, that I shal not know my debts, or fear an audit, or despair of pardon.