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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.
2. The Spirit of God is a praying Spirit: ⟨p. 161⟩it is called the spirit of grace and supplication, Zach. 12.10. the spirit of adoption, Rom. 8.15. and of his Son, whereby they that have it cry Abba Father, Gal. 4.6.
As Christ in Heaven makes intercession for them without them, Heb. 7.25. so the Spirit of Christ on earth maketh intercession for them within them; God never had any still-born children. The fathers after the flesh sometimes have dumb children, but the Father of spirits never had any such. Mans invocation of God presently followeth upon Gods effectual vocation of him: One of the first signs of spiritual life in Paul was spiritual breathing; Behold he prayeth, Acts 9.6. and it is observable, that prayer is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending almost of all his Epistles: And David was three times a day, Psal. 55.17. nay seven times a day, at this blessed duty, Psal. 119.164. yea, he was so wholly employed in it, that he speaketh as if he were altogether made up of it, Psal. 109, 4.1 But I prayer (give my self unto, as it is read in our translations, is added for explanation, as the different character showeth) as if prayer had been his essential constitutive part. Some write of Latimer, that he would pray