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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.
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?
Old sinner, dost thou not tremble, to ⟨p. 193⟩think that there is but a step betwixt thee and death! nay betwixt thee and hell. O the time, and talents, and opportunities which thou hast to reckon for, more then others! Happy, happy had it been for thee to have been turned out of the womb into hell, rather then to dye an old man, and not a babe in Christ. If thou hast a spark of love to thy self, mind thine inward change presently, least thy change come, even death, and send thee to unchangeable misery.
Old sinner, dost thou not tremble, to ⟨p. 193⟩think that there is but a step betwixt thee and death! nay betwixt thee and hell. O the time, and talents, and opportunities which thou hast to reckon for, more then others! Happy, happy had it been for thee to have been turned out of the wombe into hell, rather then to dye an old man, and not a babe in Christ. If thou hast a sparke of love to thy self, mind thine inward change presently, least thy change come, even death, and send thee to unchangeable misery.