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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.
Art thou poor? Labour for this spiritual life, it will make thee rich indeed. Thou hast little on earth, but thou mayst have a treasure in heaven. God offereth thee Grace, Christ, and Life▪ as freely as others; take heed thou neglect them not and think as they in Sweden, that it is only for Gentlemen to keep the Sabbath; that its only for Gentlemen to mind Religion; thou hast a soul to save; an endless estate to provide for; an hell to escape; an heaven to attain; ⟨p. 186⟩a dreadful day of judgement to prepare for, as well as they. It is a great mercy, that though God difference thee from others in temporals, yet not in spirituals. Among the Israelites the price for their ransom was equal, half a shekel, the rich shall not give more, nor the poor less, Exod. 30.12, 15, 16. thereby* signifying, that the same price was paid by Christ for the redemption of all, poor as well as rich, and that the virtue and merits of Christs passion belong equally to all; thy outward condition doth not exclude thee from an interest in Christs death, and intercession. Poor Lazarus may lie in the bosom of rich Abraham. The poor may be gospelized, as that Matth. 11.5. is sometimes read, not only have the Gospel preached to them, but be changed by it. God accepted the Lamb and Dove in sacrifice, when he rejected the Lion and Eagle. But thou must be one of Gods poor, not of the Devils ragged Regiment: Will it not be sad for thee to have two hells: one on earth, in cold, hunger, and thirst, and wants, and another in hell, in heat, and unspeakable woe? How many of thy condition serve the Devil and the world all their days in drudgery and slavery, and are turned into ⟨p. 187⟩hell as a Sumpter-horse at the night of death, after all his hard travel, with his back full of gals and bruises.
Art thou poor? Labour for this spiritual life, it will make thee rich indeed. Thou hast little on earth, but thou mayst have a treasure in heaven. God offereth thee Grace, Christ, and Life as freely as others; take heed thou neglect them not and think as they in Sweden, that it is only for Gentlemen to keep the Sabbath; that its only for Gentlemen to mind Religion; thou hast a soul to save; an endlesse estate to provide for; an hell to escape; an heaven to attain;