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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.
Do not say, thou art to provide for thy wife and children, and hast no time to regard thy soul, in a solemn, serious performance of duties; remember the same God that commandeth thee to follow thy particular calling as a man, enjoineth thee likewise to follow thy general calling as a Christian, and that in the first place; Seek first the Kingdom of God, and the righteousness thereof, and all other things shall be added to you, Mat. 6.33. and also with the greatest labour, John 6.27. Phil. 2.12. Labour not for the food that perisheth, but for the food that endureth to everlasting life.
Do not say, thou art to provide for thy wife and children, and hast no time to regard thy soul, in a solemn, serious performance of duties; remember the same God that commandeth thee to follow thy particular calling as a man, injoyneth thee likewise to follow thy general calling as a Christian, and that in the first place; Seek first the Kingdom of God, and the righteousness thereof, and all other things shall be added to you, Mat. 6.33. and also with the greatest labour, John 6.27. Phil. 2.12. Labour not for the food that perisheth, but for the food that endureth to everlasting life.
Where our Saviour doth not indeed absolutely forbid labour for the body, but comparatively; thy labour for thy soul should be so much, so great, that thy labour for thy body should be no labour at all, not deserve the name of labour in comparison of it. Now consider, what answer thou wilt make to the great God, when he shall plead with thee for the breach of these commands; besides, hast not thou many spare hours in many evenings, and on wet days, wherein thou mightst go to God in secret, and with thy family, and humble thy soul in a mournful confession of thy sins, and sensible apprehension of the wrath which is due to thee, and wherein thou mightst be importunate for pardon and grace, without which thou art lost for ever? Nay, the Lord knoweth how many Lords days thou hast enjoyed, which days he hath set apart, as well out of mercy as out of sovereignty, not only for the glory of his Name, but also for the good of thy soul, wherein thou mightst both publicly, privately and secretly have furthered thy spiritual and eternal good; but how dost thou squander away those precious hours, sometime in corporal labour; always in spiritual