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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.
My second question which I desire thee to answer, is, Hast thou not served the world and the flesh long enough already? Is it not yet time to serve God? hath not lust had too much of thy heart, and the flesh of thy life already? may not the time past of thy life suffice thee to have wrought the will of the flesh? 1 Pet. 4. and 3. Canst thou have the face to say with the sluggard, a little more slumber, a little more sleep, a little more drunkenness, a little more swearing, a little more wickedness? is not the debt which thou owest to Divine Justice great enough? Is not the heap of wrath and fury which thou hast provided for thy self against death and judgement big enough? Dost thou think that thou mayest serve the flesh too little, and the Lord too much? It may be thou hast served the devil twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty or seventy, and knowest not whether thou shalt have so many hours to serve God in, and is it not yet time to begin? Answer me; Hast thou not wallowed long enough in the mire of Atheism, worldliness and sensuality? wilt thou not yet be made clean (Ah) when shall it once be? Jer. 13. ult.
My second question which I desire thee to answer, is, Hast thou not served the world and the flesh long enough already? Is it not yet time to serve God? hath not lust had too much of thy heart, and the flesh of thy life already? may not the time past of thy life suffice thee to have wrought the will of the flesh? 1 Pet. 4. and 3. Canst thou have the face to say with the sluggard, a little more slumber, a little more sleep, a little more drunkenness, a little more swearing, a little more wickedness? is not the debt which thou owest to Divine Justice great enough? Is not the heap of wrath and fury which thou hast provided for thy self against death and judgement big enough? Dost thou think that thou maist serve the flesh too little, and the Lord too much? It may be thou hast served the devil twenty, thirty, fourty, fifty, sixty or seventy, and knowest not whether thou shalt have so many hours to serve God in, and is it not yet time to begin? Answer me; Hast thou not wallowed long enough in the mire of Atheism, worldliness and sensuality? wilt thou not yet be made clean (Ah) when shall it once be?