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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.
Thou hast every day been treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath; been gathering as it were more wood to increase those flames in which thou (if thou thus diest) shalt live for ever. Because judgement against an evil work is not speedily executed, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil; though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, it shall not go well with the wicked, Eccles. 8 11, 12, 23. The sinner an hundred years old shall be accursed, Isa. 65.20.
Thou hast every day been treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath; been gathering as it were more wood to increase those flames in which thou (if thou thus diest) shalt live for ever. Because judgement against an evil work is not speedily executed, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil; though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his dayes be prolonged, it shall not go well with the wicked, Eccles. 8 11, 12, 23. The sinner an hundred years old shall be accursed, Isa. 65.20.
I have read of the Circassians, a kind of mongrel Christians, that they divide their time betwixt the Devil and God, dedicating their youth to robbery, and their old age to repentance. How much time hast thou spent in the service of sin? how little time hast thou left the service of God and thy soul? Is it not high time for thee to number thy days, and to apply thy heart unto wisdom speedily?
I have read of the Circassians, a kind of mungrel Christians, that they divide their time betwixt the Devil and God, dedicating their youth to robbery, and their old age to repentance. How much time hast thou spent in the service of sin? how little time hast thou left the service of God and thy soul? Is it not high time for thee to number thy dayes, and to apply thy heart unto wisdom speedily?