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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.
Speak thy self, whether thou prayest, readest, hearest, singest from the Divine nature within, from love to the infinitely amiable God, from the delight thou takest in communion with him in duties; O how sweet is that honey, that drops of its own accord from the comb! and how pure is that Wine which floweth freely from the grape! So grateful and acceptable is that sacrifice to God, which is seasoned with sincere love. Blessed is the man that feareth ⟨p. 146⟩the Lord, and delighteth greatly in his Commandments, Psal. 128.1.
Speak thy self, whether thou prayest, readest, hearest, singest from the Divine nature within, from love to the infinitely amiable God, from the delight thou takest in communion with him in duties; O how sweet is that hony, that drops of its own accord from the comb! and how pure is that Wine which floweth freely from the grape! So grateful and acceptable is that sacrifice to God, which is season'd with sincere love. Blessed is the man that feareth ⟨p. 146⟩the Lord, and delighteth greatly in his Commandments, Psal. 128.1.
Or dost thou worship God from the same principle the Sadducees do, who deny the Resurrection? only from a desire it may go well with thee in this life; or from the same principle from which the Persians do the devil? only from fear least he should do thee hurt; surely that service will be sour, which like verjuice is squeezed out of the crabs; To serve God with a filial fear is commendable, but to serve him from a servile fear is unacceptable.
Or dost thou worship God from the same principle the Sadduces do, who deny the Resurrection? only from a desire it may go well with thee in this life; or from the same principle from which the Persians do the divel? only from fear least he should do thee hurt; surely that service will be sowr, which like verjuice is squeezed out of the crabs; To serve God with a filial fear is commendable, but to serve him from a servile fear is unacceptable.