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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.
Dost thou not see the bodies of the Saints? look how they fly upon the wings of the wind to their souls, and both to the bosom of their beloved Saviour. See how the spirits of unregenerate ones leave for a little while, the dark vault of hell, and enter (though most unwillingly) into the stinking carrion of their bodies, and both haled by angels to the judgement seat of Christ.
Dost thou not see the bodies of the Saints? look how they flie upon the wings of the wind to their souls, and both to the bosom of their beloved Saviour. See how the spirits of unregenerate ones leave for a little while, the dark vault of hell, and enter (though most unwillingly) into the stinking carrion of their bodies, and both haled by angels to the judgement seat of Christ.
When the Court is thus set, conceive the Commission read, wherein Jesus Christ is authorized, in his humane nature, by his Divine Power, to be Judge of the quick and dead; the law is produced, both of nature and Scripture; the books are opened, hoth of Gods omniscience and mans conscience, by which all men are to be tried for their everlasting lives and deaths.
When the Court is thus set, conceive the Commission read, wherein Jesus Christ is authorized, in his humane nature, by his Divine Power, to be Judge of the quick and dead; the law is produced, both of nature and Scripture; the books are opened, hoth of Gods omniscience and mans conscience, by which all men are to be tryed for their everlasting lives and deaths.
The holy ones are now called, their persons through the righteousness of Christ ⟨p. 210⟩