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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.
After such an hearing from hell, wouldst thou not be diligent to prevent thy damnation? wouldst thou not take heed of those knives of negligence, idleness and formality, resting in a few good means, which did cut the throat of others souls? wouldst thou after this, jest at heaven and hell, or trifle about regeneration or the new birth? Wouldst thou again mock God, or cozen thy self with a form, a shell, a carcass of Religion? Would not the words thou hadst lately heard, be always sounding in thine ears, and piercing thy heart, and quickening thee to be sedulous and industrious about thy soul affairs? And why wilt thou not do as much now, when I can assure thee from the mighty possessor of heaven and earth, that this is as true (namely that many souls are eternally sunk by reason of those quick-sands) as if thou hadst heard it from the mouth of hell; nay it is possible a damned wretch may deceive thee, but it is impossible that the blessed God (who speaketh as much with his own mouth) should deceive thee. Look 1 Thess. 5.3. Mat. 7.21, 22, 23.
After such an hearing from hell, wouldst thou not be diligent to prevent thy damnation? wouldst thou not take heed of those knives of negligence, idleness and formality, resting in a few good means, which did cut the throate of others souls? wouldst thou after this, jest at heaven and hell, or trifle about regeneration or the new birth? Wouldst thou again mock God, or cozen thy self with a form, a shell, a carcasse of Religion? Would not the words thou hadst lately heard, be alwayes sounding in thine ears, and piercing thy heart, and quickening thee to be sedulous and industrious about thy soul affairs? And why wilt thou not do as much now, when I can assure thee from the mighty possessor of heaven and earth, that this is as true (namely that many souls are eternally sunk by reason of those quick-sands) as if thou hadst heard it from the mouth of hell; nay it is possible a damned wretch may deceive thee, but it is impossible that the blessed God (who speaketh as much with his own mouth) should deceive thee. Look 1 Thess. 5.3. Mat. 7.21, 22, 23.