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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.
3. Is Christ the comfort of thy life? when trouble like frosty weather overtaketh thee, which is the fire at which thou warmest thy heart? is it this friend, or that place of preferment, or any outward comfort whatsoever; or is it thy Relation to Christ, and his affection to thee? when damps arise out of the earth, is it the joy of thy soul that light springs down from heaven? or dost thou trust to the Candle of the creature, which will burn blew and go out? Is Christ (man) or the world the door through which thy joys come in, the dish on which thou feedest with most delight? If Christ should give thee the long life of Methuselah, the strength of Sampson, the beauty of Absalom, the wisdom, wealth and renown of Solomon, and deny himself to thee, canst thou contentedly bear his absence, or wouldst thou say as Haman in another case and Absalom? 2 Sam. 14.32. All this availeth me nothing, so long as I may not see the Kings face. 1As Artabazus, when Cyrus gave him a cup of gold, and kissed Chrysantas, told the King, The cup thou gavest to me, was not half so good gold, as the kiss thou gavest Chrysantas; ⟨p. 151⟩so saith the living Saint when Christ blesseth him outwardly, and with-draweth himself from the soul; Lord, the cups, the wife and children, the food and raiment, the pleasures and treasures, all the earthly mercies thou givest to me, are not a quarter so good gold, as the kisses of thy love which thou givest unto thy favourites; O kiss me with the kisses of thy mouth, for thy love is better then wine, Cant. 1. Remember me, O Lord, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy children; O visit me with thy salvation, that I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy Nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance. Psal. 106.4, 5. Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy Name. Psal. 119.132. These are the holy Petitions of a gracious soul for a child's portion. Common mercies will never content them that have special grace, nor satisfy them that are sanctified indeed. As the needle touched with the Load-stone is restless, till it points toward the North; so the Saint that is touched effectually by the Spirit of God, is unquiet till he turn unto and have fellowship with Jesus Christ.