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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.
Consider it Friend; no sins admit of higher aggravations, nor are matter of deeper provocation, then the sins of those that are interested in Gods special distinguishing affection. In a word (for I had not thought to have told thee so much, it was for the sake of others principally that I penned this piece) since it shall be thy reward to be ⟨p. 173⟩like an Angel in happiness, ever to behold the face of the Father, let it be thy work and endeavour to be like an Angel in holiness, to do the will of God readily, heartily, and universally.
Consider it Friend; no sins admit of higher aggravations, nor are matter of deeper provocation, then the sins of those that are interested in Gods special distinguishing affection. In a word (for I had not thought to have told thee so much, it was for the sake of others principally that I penn'd this piece) since it shall be thy reward to be ⟨p. 173⟩like an Angel in happiness, ever to behold the face of the Father, let it be thy work and endeavour to be like an Angel in holiness, to do the will of God readily, heartily, and universally.
But if thou find upon a thorough search, that thou art a stranger to this spiritual life; if conscience sent to enquire bring in its verdict, that this purifying praying Spirit dwelleth not in thy soul: Let me beseecheth thee, in the fear of the Lord, to bethink thy self, what is like to become of thee for ever. One of the Martyrs put his finger into the candle, to try how he could endure the fire, in which he was afterwards to be burnt; do thou but read over again the former use of information, and consider whether thou art able to undergo that loss, and that terrible intolerable eternal wrath of an omnipotent God, which is therein declared, and by Scripture proved to be the portion of all that live and dye in thy condition. Suppose thou shouldst hear a voice this hour, as that wicked Pope did,