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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.
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 ⟨p. 218⟩woe and alas, I am tormented in these flames.
3. Suppose thou couldst speak with thy carnal unregenerate neighbors 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 neighbors did no better: I presumed, that because God was merciful, and Christ meritorious, & I enjoyed the outward priviledges 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 ⟨p. 218⟩wo and alas, I am tormented in these flames.