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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.
4. Is Christ the end of thy life? Is it thy main scope to live to him that died for thee? Doth the compass of thy soul without trepidation, stand right to this pole the glory of Jesus Christ? For none of us liveth to himself, (saith the Apostle) and no man dieth to himself; but whether we live, we live unto the Lord, and whether ⟨p. 153⟩we die, we die unto the Lord; whether we live therefore or die, we are the Lords. For to this end Christ both died, and rose and revived, that he might be Lord both of dead and living, Rom. 14.7, 8, 9. A sincere Christian dedicates his body, soul, name, estate, relations, interests, and his all to the glory of Christ, and wisheth he had something better to consecrate to him; As the Grecian told the Emperor, If I had more, more would I give thee; so the Saint desireth that he may believe more, and repent more, and hate sin more, and for this end, that he may exalt Christ more. The Philosopher telleth us that means move by the goodness of their ends,1 not by any absolute goodness of their own, but by their relative goodness, the goodness of their ends; as we take Physic not for Physics sake, but for healths sake; So duties and Ordinances move a Christian to mind them, not so much for their own sake, as for their ends sake; he prayeth, fasteth, readeth, meditateth, that he may thereby and therein please, glorify and enjoy the Lord Jesus Christ.
4. Is Christ the end of thy life? Is it thy main scope to live to him that died for thee? Doth the compasse of thy soul without trepidation, stand right to this pole the glory of Jesus Christ? For none of us liveth to himself, (saith the Apostle) and no man dieth to himself; but whether we live, we live unto the Lord, and whether ⟨p. 153⟩we die, we die unto the Lord; whether we live therefore or die, we are the Lords. For to this end Christ both died, and rose and revived, that he might be Lord both of dead and living, Rom. 14.7, 8, 9. A sincere Christian dedicates his body, soul, name, estate, relations, interests, and his all to the glory of Christ, and wisheth he had something better to consecrate to him; As the Grecian told the Emperour, If I had more, more would I give thee; so the Saint desireth that he may believe more, and repent more, and hate sin more, and for this end, that he may exalt Christ more. The Philosopher telleth us that means move by the goodnesse of their ends,