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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.
If he be a great God, he may well require a great house to be his material temple, and if he be a great God, may he not justly call for a great part of, yea all thy heart to be his spiritual temple? It is likely the Son Solomon learned this of his father David, who giveth us this as the reason why he danced before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord of the whole earth with all his might, 2 Sam. 6.14. & 21. It was (saith he) before the Lord: as if he had said, Had it been before men only, or in their service, I might have been cold and careless, slothful and sluggish; but it was before the Lord, the infinite, incomprehensible, and holy God, to whom I am unspeakably obliged for his ⟨p. 222⟩distinguishing mercy; and therefore all my might, and all my strength was little enough for such a God. I might mind thee further that thou hast wrought hard in thy slavery to the world and thy flesh, in thy drudgery to the devil and thy lusts, whose reward and wages is nothing but disappointment and vexation, hell and damnation; and shouldst thou not be fervent fiery (seething hot as the word signifieth) in spirit when thou art serving the Lord?1 Rom. 11.12. I might also ask thee to whom thou owest thy whole strength, and thy whole heart if not to God? Art thou so much indebted to the world and thy flesh, those enemies of thy salvation, as thou art to the blessed God? and who will at last pay thee best for thy strength and time? God or the world, Christ or the flesh. But I may speak more to this in another place.
If he be a great God, he may well require a great house to be his material temple, and if he be a great God, may he not justly call for a great part of, yea all thy heart to be his spiritual temple? It is likely the Son Solomon learned this of his father David, who giveth us this as the reason why he danced before the Arke of the Covenant of the Lord of the whole earth with all his might, 2 Sam. 6.14. & 21. It was (saith he) before the Lord: as if he had said, Had it been before men only, or in their service, I might have been cold and careless, slothful and sluggish; but it was before the Lord, the infinite, incomprehensible, and holy God, to whom I am unspeakably obliged for his