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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 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, 2 Cor. 4.4. least the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ should shine unto them. How easy ⟨image 12⟩is it for him to lead blind men out of the way, and then to destroy them! as Pliny saith, the Eagle deals with the Hart, she lights upon his horns, and there flutters up and down filling his eyes with dust, born in her feathers, that at last he may cast himself from the rock, and so be made a prey unto her: so the wicked one bindeth a muffler before mens eyes, and then turneth them off the ladder and executes them.
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, 2 Cor. 4.4. least the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ should shine unto them. How easie ⟨image 12⟩is it for him to lead blind men out of the way, and then to destroy them! as Pliny saith, the Eagle deals with the Hart, she lights upon his horns, and there flutters up and down filling his eyes with dust, born in her feathers, that at last he may cast himself from the rock, and so be made a prey unto her: so the wicked one bindeth a muffler before mens eyes, and then turneth them off the ladder and executes them.
What is the cause of mens scandalous practices but ignorance? The dark corners of the earth ar full of the habitations of cruelty,