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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.
Plato saith, If moral Philosophy could be seen with moral eyes it would draw all mens hearts after it: May not I more truly say, if the gain of a Saint at death could be seen with spiritual eyes, with the eye of faith, it would make all men in love with it, and eager after it! Balaam, as bad as he was, did desire to die the death of the righteous; and surely they that dislike their way, cannot but desire their end; but God hath joined them both together, and it is not in the power of any man to put them asunder; therefore if thou wouldst die their deaths, thou must live their spiritual lives. Holiness is the seed out of which that harvest groweth. If thou wouldst be safe when thou shalt launch into the vast Ocean of eternity; if thou wouldst be received into the celestial habitation, when thou shalt be turned out of thy house of clay, make sure of this life in Christ. If an Heathen Prince would not admit Virgins to his bed before they were purified;1 canst thou think the King of Kings will take thee into his nearest and dearest embraces, before thou art sanctified? Believe it, heaven must be in ⟨p. 178⟩thee, before thou shalt be in heaven. Unless the Spirit of God adorn thy soul, (as Abrams servant did Rebeckah) with the jewels of grace, thou art no fit Spouse for the true Isaac the Lord of glory.
Plato saith, If moral Philosophy could be seen with moral eyes it would draw all mens hearts after it: May not I more truly say, if the gain of a Saint at death could be seen with spiritual eyes, with the eye of faith, it would make all men in love with it, and eager after it! Baalam, as bad as he was, did desire to die the death of the righteous; and surely they that dislike their way, cannot but desire their end; but God hath joyned them both together, and it is not in the power of any man to put them asunder; therefore if thou wouldst die their deaths, thou must live their spiritual lives. Holinesse is the seed out of which that harvest groweth. If thou wouldst be safe when thou shalt launch into the vast Ocean of eternity; if thou wouldst be received into the celestial habitation, when thou shalt be turned out of thy house of clay, make sure of this life in Christ. If an Heathen Prince would not admit Virgins to his bed before they were purified;1