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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.
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?
Canst thou read the story of Pope Gregory the seventh, how he made the Emperor Henry the fourth, with his wife and child, to stand bare feet and bare legged three days and three nights in a cold frosty season, before he would admit them into the house, and thy heart not rise against the ⟨p. 200⟩Popes pride and wickedness? And why doth it not rise against thy own obstinacy and vileness, that hast suffered the King of Kings to stand knocking at the door of thy heart till his head hath been wet with the dew, and his locks with the drops of the night? and though he hath waited thus many years, yet thou hast denied him entrance, and art not to this hour resolved to give him speedy acceptance.
Canst thou read the story of Pope Gregory the seventh, how he made the Emperor Henry the fourth, with his wife and child, to stand bare feet and bare leg'd three days and three nights in a cold frosty season, before he would admit them into the house, and thy heart not rise against the ⟨p. 200⟩Popes pride and wickedness? And why doth it not rise against thy own obstinacy and vileness, that hast suffered the King of Kings to stand knocking at the door of thy heart till his head hath been wet with the dew, and his locks with the drops of the night? and though he hath waited thus many years, yet thou hast denyed him entrance, and art not to this hour resolved to give him speedy acceptance.