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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.
3. If one should offer thee an house and land, or a bag of money, wouldst thou not presently accept it? wouldst thou say I am not yet at leisure, hereafter will be time enough? and is there not infinitely more reason why thou shouldst presently close with Christ, and leave thy sins, and seek the Kingdom of heaven? Is not heaven more worth then earth? are not the fruits of Christ better then silver, and his revenues then choice gold? Prov. 3.15.
3. If one should offer thee an house and land, or a bag of money, wouldst thou not presently accept it? wouldst thou say I am not yet at leisure, hereafter will be time enough? and is there not infinitely more reason why thou shouldst presently close with Christ, and leave thy sins, and seek the Kingdom of heaven? Is not heaven more worth then earth? are not the fruits of Christ better then silver, and his revenews then choice gold? Prov. 3.15.
When gold is offered thee, saith Ambrose, thou dost not say, I will come again to morrow and take it, but art glad of present possession; but salvation being proffered to our souls, few men haste to embrace it.
When gold is offered thee, saith Ambrose, thou dost not say, I will come again to morrow and take it, but art glad of present possession; but salvation being profered to our souls, few men haste to embrace it.
Is it not a sordid slighting of Jesus Christ the Lord of glory, for thee to be more ready and hasty to take a little perishing wealth, then his most precious blood?