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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.
Reader, if thou art convinced so far of the absolute necessity of conversion, as to desire it unfeignedly, let me request thee, for the sake of thy poor soul, to set some considerable time apart; thy body hath had many years; surely thy soul deserveth one day, and that speedily, to be serious in about its endless estate, and to compare ⟨p. 233⟩thy wicked life with the pure Law of God, and observe how exceedingly thou hast swerved from the precepts therein commanded; consider not only its outward and literal, but likewise its inward and spiritual meaning, and thou mayst presently discern, that thy whole conversation for so many years as thou hast lived, hath been a continued aberration and wandering from the Lord and his Laws. If thou lookest aright in that glass, it will discover all the spots, all the dirt, that have been in the face of thy heart and life, Jam. 1.23. By the Law is the knowledge of sin, Rom. 3.20.
Reader, if thou art convinced so farre of the absolute necessity of conversion, as to desire it unfeignedly, let me request thee, for the sake of thy poor soul, to set some considerable time apart; thy body hath had many years; surely thy soul deserveth one day, and that speedily, to be serious in about its endlesse estate, and to compare ⟨p. 233⟩thy wicked life with the pure Law of God, and observe how exceedingly thou hast swerved from the precepts therein commanded; consider not only its outward and literal, but likewise its inward and spiritual meaning, and thou mayst presently discern, that thy whole conversation for so many years as thou hast lived, hath been a continued aberration and wandring from the Lord and his Laws. If thou lookest aright in that glasse, it will discover all the spots, all the dirt, that have been in the face of thy heart and life, Jam. 1.23. By the Law is the knowledge of sin, Rom. 3.20.