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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 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.
12. In the next place labour to get thy heart deeply and throughly affected with thy sins and misery. Humiliation must follow Illumination. It is not enough for this knowledge of the transgressions thou hast committed, and the wrath thou hast deserved, to swim in thy head (it may be there as fire in the flint to no profit) but it must sink down into thy heart, and be beaten out into an application of, and lamentation for thy guilt and wickedness.
- 12. Direction, Humiliation.