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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.
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.
4. Dost thou not find by experience that the longer thou delayest, the farther thou wanderest from God and holiness, and the more unfit thou art for, and the more unwilling unto the work of conversion? is it not time therefore to turn with speed, when continuance in sin insensibly hardeneth thy heart, and gradually indisposeth it more to the work of repentance? as the ground, so is thy heart; the longer it lieth fallow, not ploughed up, the harder it will be; wilt thou go one step farther from God, when thou must certainly come back every step, and that by weeping cross all the way, or be damned for ever? The purchase of heaven is like buying the Sibyls prophesies, the longer thou holdest off, the dearer.