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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.
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, 1 Thess. 5.17. whether God hear him presently or no; he knoweth that both the command of God and his own wants call upon him never to give over.
- 1Mr. Car. on Job 27.
- 2Of Carolus Magnus it is said, Carolus plus cum deo quam hominibus loquitur.
Besides, this spirit of prayer abides in him for ever, John 4.14. and 16.
Examine thy heart by these marks faithfully, and do not by flattery or self-love (or rather self-hatred) deceive thy soul (no deceit ⟨p. 170⟩