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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.
6. Art thou sure that God will accept thee hereafter, if thou shouldst now delay and dally with his Majesty? It is good seeking the Lord while he may be found, and calling upon him while he is near, Psal. 55.6. There is a time when men shall call, but God will nor hear; cry, but he will not answer; and that because when God called they would not hear, but set at naught his counsel, Prov. 24. to 29. Whilst thine eyes ⟨p. 203⟩are open, the things which concern thy peace, may be hid from them, Luke 19.41. Thou mayest live to have thy soul buried long before thy body, Ezek. 24.13, 14. God would purge thee now, and thou wilt not; take heed he clap not the same curse upon thee, which he did on some others, that thou shalt never be purged till thou diest. The Spirit of God probably now stirreth thee, to turn presently, and offereth thee its help; if thou lovest thy soul do not now deny it, least the spirit serve thee, as Samuel did Saul; Saul disobeyed him, and Samuel came no more to Saul to the day of his death, 1 Sam. 15. ult. i. e. never. So take heed of quenching this motion of the holy Ghost, least it depart in a distaste, taking its everlasting leave of thee, and thou never feel it more to the day of thy death. Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation, 2 Cor. 6.2. This day if thou wilt hear his voice, harden not thy heart, least he swear in his wrath that thou shalt never enter into his rest, Psal. 95.7.11.
6. Art thou sure that God will accept thee hereafter, if thou shouldst now delay and dally with his Majesty? It is good seeking the Lord while he may be found, and calling upon him while he is near,