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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.
He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him, Heb. 11.6. So Prov. 2.3, 4. His precept is for labour, 1Mat. 7.13. Strive to enter in at the strait gate, be diligent to mak• your calling and election sure, 2 Pet. 1.10. So John 6.27. nay he curseth them that put him off with their lame sacrifices, For I am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful, Mal. 1.13, 14. Further he is peremptory, that the slothful shall be for utter darkness, Mat. 25.26. The Egyptian ⟨p. 207⟩King would have men of activity and industry to be his servants; and will God thinkest thou who is a pure act, accept of those that are not active? Canst thou imagine that he should ever bestow pardon of sin, eternal life, the sanctification of the spirit, the precious contents of his own promise, the invaluable fruits of Christs purchase, upon those those do not judge them worthy of all their strength and time, and hearts, and pains, and ten thousand times more? Besides, for what reason dost thou suppose God to have given thee these things? Surely thou canst not be so brutish as to think, that the great God made thee, and serveth thee in daily with such variety of mercies (health, strength, food, raiment, influences of heaven, and fruits of the earth) only or chiefly that thou should eat and drink and follow thy calling, and provide for thy family; were such low ends the ground of his kindness? or is it not that thou mightest ravish that pure and virgin inheritance, by an holy and heavenly violence, that thou mightest employ them and improve them to the utmost about his service and thy own salvation?