A62050:391
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.
Thus friend it would be with thee if thou wert to leave this world within a month, or thou wert worse then a mad man. And why shall it not be thus with thee now, when thou art so far from ensuring thy life for a month, that thou canst not promise thy self the next hour? dost thou not believe that thy foundation is in the dust? Job 4.19. that man at his best estate is altogether vanity? Psal. 32.5. that one dyeth in ⟨p. 216⟩his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet, his breasts being full of milk, and his bones moistened with marrow, Job. 21.23, 24. Thou art not a tenant at thy own will, whilst thou dwellest in thy house of clay. Thou cuttest large thongs of Gods time, if thou assurest thy self another week. But look, Reader, dost thou not see that eternity is at the very threshold of thy house,1 that there is but a step, a thin paper wall of life, between thee and eternity! Is there not much more reason that thou shouldst be more industrious for thy soul and salvation when thou art not sure to live a day, than if thou wert sure to live a month?
Thus friend it would be with thee if thou wert to leave this world within a month, or thou wert worse then a mad man. And why shall it not be thus with thee now, when thou art so far from ensuring thy life for a moneth, that thou canst not promise thy self the next hour? dost thou not believe that thy foundation is in the dust? Job 4.19. that man at his best estate is altogether vanity? Psal. 32.5. that one dyeth in ⟨p. 216⟩his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet, his breasts being full of milk, and his bones moistned with marrow,