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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.
What is the reason, that so many make a mock of sin, and dance merrily over the infernal pit, and play with the unquenchable fire, but ignorance? The Child doth not know that the fire will burn him. As the ⟨image 12⟩Horse they rush into the battle (fighting against God and their souls) not knowing it will be to their destruction, to their damnation. These Balaams run greedily after the wages of unrighteousness, not seeing the Angel that standeth in the way with a drawn sword in his hand ready to kill them. Did they know what they do, when they wilfully break Gods Law, they would sooner leap into a furnace of scalding lead, than provoke so jealous a God. But sin goeth in a disguise, and thence is welcome; like Judas, it kisseth and kills; like Joab, it salutes and slays. The foolish sinner seeth the pleasant streams of Jordan, but not the dead Sea, into which they will certainly empty themselves to his ruin.
What is the reason, that so many make a mock of sin, and dance merrily over the infernal pit, and play with the unquenchable fire, but ignorance? The Child doth not know that the fire will burn him. As the ⟨image 12⟩Horse they rush into the battel (fighting against God and their souls) not knowing it will be to their destruction, to their damnation. These Balaams run greedily after the wages of unrighteousness, not seeing the Angel that standeth in the way with a drawn sword in his hand ready to kill them. Did they know what they do, when they wilfully break Gods Law, they would sooner leap into a furnace of scalding lead, than provoke so jealous a God. But sin goeth in a disguise, and thence is welcome; like Judas, it kisseth and kils; like Joab, it salutes and slayes. The foolish sinner seeth the pleasant streames of Jordan, but not the dead Sea, into which they will certainly empty themselves to his ruine.
What is the reason that the Devil carrieth so many captive at his will, leadeth them whither he pleaseth, but ignorance? They are ignorant of his wiles, of his devices: they know not (as drunken Lot of his Daughters) when he cometh, nor when he goeth. The Prince of darkness takes up his throne in dark understandings. The god of this world blindeth their minds,