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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.
3. My third Use shall be, of exhortation to those that are dead in sins, to labour for this spiritual life. Whoever thou art that wouldest have gain by thy death, then get Christ to be thy life. Hast thou read of that fullness of joy, of those rivers of pleasures, of that exceeding and eternal weight of glory, of that Kingdom that cannot be shaken, of that enjoyment of Christ, of that full immediate fruition of God, and in him of all good, of that perfect freedom from all evil, which they (and only they) shall be partakers of, who have this spiritual life? And is not thy heart inflamed with love to it? thy soul enlarged in desire after it?1 thy will resolved to venture all, and undertake any thing for it? Surely if thou art a man, and hast reason, thy will and affections will ⟨p. 176⟩be carried out after things that are good; but if thou hast but a spark of Christianity, thou canst not but be exceedingly ravished with things so eminently, so superlatively, so infinitely good. The Historian observeth, that the riches of Cyprus invited the Romans to hazard dangerous fights for the conquering it. How many storms doth the Merchant sail through for corruptible treasures? How often doth the Soldier venture his limbs, nay his life, for a little perishing plunder? Reader, I am persuading thee to mind the true treasure, durable riches, even those which will swim out with thee in the shipwreck of death.
3. My third Use shall be, of exhortation to those that are dead in sins, to labour for this spiritual life. Whoever thou art that wouldest have gain by thy death, then get Christ to be thy life. Hast thou read of that fulness of joy, of those rivers of pleasures, of that exceeding and eternal weight of glory, of that Kingdom that cannot be shaken, of that enjoyment of Christ, of that full immediate fruition of God, and in him of all good, of that perfect freedom from all evil, which they (and only they) shall be partakers of, who have this spiritual life? And is not thy heart inflamed with love to it? thy soul enlarged in desire after it?1 thy will resolved to venture all, and undertake any thing for it? Surely if thou art a man, and hast reason, thy will and affections will ⟨p. 176⟩