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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.
Shouldst thou not be laborious in the service of such a good God? Give me leave to urge this thought a little farther, and to give thee a Scripture or two, which through the free grace of God have sometimes helped me against deadness and dullness in duties. The one is 2 Chron. 2. and 5. where Solomon telleth us, The house I am to build must be great (mark the reason) for great is our God above all gods. If God be so great a God, how greatly is he to be reverenced? canst thou do too much service for him? or give too much glory to him? Can thy love to him be too great? or can thy fear of him be too great? or can thy labour for him be too great, when this God is so great, That he measureth the ocean in the hollow of his hand, and meteth out the heavens with a span, and comprehendeth the dust of the earth in a measure, and weigheth the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance. ⟨p. 221⟩Behold the Nations are as a drop of the bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance. Behold he taketh up the Isles as a very little thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering. All Nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him as less then nothing and vanity, Isa. 40.12, 15, 16, 17. God is a great God and therefore greatly to be feared, Psal. 89.7. God is a great God, and therefore greatly to be praised; for his greatness is unsearchable, Psal. 145.3.
Shouldst thou not be laborious in the service of such a good God? Give me leave to urge this thought a little farther, and to give thee a Scripture or two, which through the free grace of God have sometimes helped me against deadness and dullness in duties. The one is 2 Chron. 2. and 5. where Solomon telleth us, The house I am to build must be great (mark the reason) for great is our God above all gods. If God be so great a God, how greatly is he to be reverenced? canst thou do too much service for him? or give too much glory to him? Can thy love to him be too great? or can thy fear of him be too great? or can thy labor for him be too great, when this God is so great, That he measureth the ocean in the hollow of his hand, and meteth out the heavens with a span, and comprehendeth the dust of the earth in a measure, and weigheth the mountains in scales, and the hills in a ballance.