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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.
There is a bird peculiar to Ireland, called the Cock of the wood, remarkable for its fine flesh and folly; all the difficulty to kill them, is to find them; they fly in woods in flocks; and if one be shot, the rest remove not but to the next tree, and there stand staring at the shooter, till the whole covey be destroyed; yet as foolish as this bird is, it may be the Emblem of most wise men in point of mortality; death sweeps away one and one, and one and another, and all the rest remain no whit moved, till at ⟨p. 217⟩last they are destroyed, and then their folly is (though too late) bewailed.
There is a bird peculiar to Ireland, called the Cock of the wood, remarkable for its fine flesh and folly; all the difficulty to kill them, is to finde them; they flie in woods in flocks; and if one be shot, the rest remove not but to the next tree, and there stand staring at the shooter, till the whole covey be destroyed; yet as foolish as this bird is, it may be the Embleme of most wise men in point of mortality; death sweeps away one and one, and one and another, and all the rest remain no whit moved, till at ⟨p. 217⟩last they are destroyed, and then their folly is (though too late) bewailed.
3. Suppose thou couldst speak with thy carnal unregenerate neighbours or friends, that are now under endless remorse, frying in those unquenchable flames, and shouldst ask them what caused them to miscarry for ever, and how they came to that place of torment; and they should tell thee, O friend, I thought heaven might have been had without so much ado, that there had been no need of that seriousness and laboriousness which a few precise ones practised, and which Ministers so much pressed. I thought I might do well enough with a formal lazy outside serving of God, because my neighbours did no better: I presumed, that because God was merciful, and Christ meritorious, & I enjoyed the outward privileges of the Gospel, and gave God some of the time I could spare from the world and the flesh in a little heartless devotion, that I should be saved; never looking at that inward renovation and outward reformation which (I see now to my sorrow are required in all, to whom the special mercy of God and merit of Christ shall be extended; and now