A62050:407
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.
Consider also, that thy breach of the Law makes thee liable to the curse of the Law, which is the infinite eternal wrath of the Law-giver. Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the Law to do them, Gal. 3.10.
The Law must be satisfied; since not in its accomplishment, it will in thy punishment.
If God cast the glorious Angels out of heaven and reserved them in chains of darkness, to the judgement of the great day for one sin, and that (as some think) in thought; into what an hell may he cast thee, whose ⟨p. 234⟩iniquities for weight are like the sand of the sea, and for number like the sparks of a furnace, and the stars in the firmament! Think of it with all possible seriousness; thou hangest over the mouth of hell every moment by a small thread of life, and if that should be cut asunder, the whole world cannot save thee from dropping into it.
If God cast the glorious Angels out of heaven and reserved them in chains of darknesse, to the judgement of the great day for one sin, and that (as some think) in thought; into what an hell may he cast thee, whose ⟨p. 234⟩iniquities for weight are like the sand of the sea, and for number like the sparks of a furnace, and the stars in the firmament! Think of it with all possible seriousnesse; thou hangest over the mouth of hell every moment by a small thread of life, and if that should be cut asunder, the whole world cannot save thee from dropping into it.