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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 lastly tell me, hast thou time to eat, and drink, and work, and sleep, and no time to work out thy salvation, to fit thy soul for death, for judgement, for eternity? If thy house were in a flame thou wouldst not let it burn, and say, I have no time to quench it: If thy neighbour call thee to sit, or talk, or dine, or it may be to go to the Ale-house with him, thou dost not answer him, I must provide for my family, I have no time; but when thy Maker and Preserver, the blessed God, calleth upon thee by his Spirit and Word to be diligent, for the making thy calling and election sure, 2 Pet. 1.10. thou must provide for thy family, thou hast no time for this. Foolish worm, leave off thy vain and cursed pretences, and set upon the business for which thou wast sent into the world, even the glorifying and obeying the Lord, or thou shalt have another manner of answer to thy simple excuses from the Judge of quick and dead, when for thy want of time to serve him in, he shall give thee an eternity to suffer in.
But lastly tell me, hast thou time to eat, and drink, and work, and sleep, and no time to work out thy salvation, to fit thy soul for death, for judgement, for eternity? If thy house were in a flame thou wouldst not let it burn, and say, I have no time to quench it: If thy neighbor call thee to sit, or talk, or dine, or it may be to go to the Ale-house with him, thou dost not answer him, I must provide for my family, I have no time; but when thy Maker and Preserver, the blessed God, calleth upon thee by his Spirit and Word to be diligent, for the making thy calling and election sure, 2 Pet. 1.10. thou must provide for thy family, thou hast no time for this. Foolish worm, leave off thy vain and cursed pretences, and set upon the business for which thou wast sent into the world, even the glorifying and obeying the Lord, or thou shalt have another manner of answer to thy simple excuses from the Judge of quick and dead, when for thy want of time to serve him in, he shall give thee an eternity to suffer in.