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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 if God do not hear him presently, he will not submit patiently, but often flingeth away in a rage, with that wicked King, Why should he wait upon the Lord any longer?
If there come not in present profit, he will give over his trade; as Tully said to his Brother, That he would pray to the Gods, but that they have given over to hear. Whereas a godly man will cry in the day, and not be silent in the night; he will direct his prayer to God, und look up, Psal. 5.3. He will pray and wait, wait and pray, as you see beggars in some places, they will beg and knit, knit and beg, and continue still begging and knitting: So a right beggar at Gods ⟨p. 169⟩door, he will pray and work, work and pray, he will believe and pray, hope and pray, read and pray, wait and pray; he knoweth that it is not good to limit the holy One of Israel; but it is good that a soul should hope, and quietly wait for the salvation of God, Lam, 3.26.
A Divine giveth me this Simile, which doth excellently illustrate our present subject: Take some draught horse,1 and he will draw when the load is coming,2 but if he feel it not coming, he will trample and not draw; but take a horse of a right breed, and put his traces to a tree, or a post, he will strain and strain, and die upon the place, before he will give over, though nothing comes: So a rotten Christian, if he find no present gain coming, he gives over duty, fearing all is lost; but a right Christian will pray continually,