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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.
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.
The upright Christian worketh from an inward principle, the new Creation within; and thence it is, that spiritual things are so natural and delightful to his regenerate part, as we see in David, I delight to do thy will, O my God; how cometh this to pass, but from an inward principle? Thy Law is within my heart, Psal. 40.8. or as it is in Hebrew, Thy Law is in the midst of my bowels. But now an hypocrite usually acteth from some outward principle, as the Pharisees did, Matth. 23.14, 27. Matth. 6.1, 5. the wind from without makes their Mill to go; some goads, or whips, force them forward; hence it is, that like tired Jades, ⟨p. 147⟩they are presently weary, and desire nothing more then to rest, and cease from such unpleasant labour.