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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.
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,1 Come thou wretch unto thy particular and eternal judgement; what wouldst thou do? where wouldst thou appear? and where wouldst thou leave thy glory? Isai. 10.3. I would not for a ⟨p. 174⟩world take thy turn: How is it possible, that thou canst eat, or drink, or sleep with any quietness of mind: that in the day thy meat is not sauced with sorrow, and thy drink mingled with weeping: that in the night thou art not scared with dreams, and terrified with visions, when thy whole eternity dependeth upon that little thread of life, which is in danger every moment to be cut asunder, and thou to drop into hell! Art thou a man that hast reason, and canst thou be contented one hour in such a condition? Art thou a Christian, that believest the Word of God to be truth, and canst thou continue one moment longer in that Sodom of thy natural estate, which will be punished with fire and brimstone?
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 beseeth 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 losse, 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,