A62050:410
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.
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.
Man is so sinfully subtle, that he can bear the historical knowledge of these things in his understanding, he can hear the name of sin and hell, and be no more troubled then at a painted devil, or a tale of purgatory; but when God brings down sin from being a notion to be an obligation, and entereth an action against the soul within it self, then ⟨p. 235⟩it will begin to melt and mourn under the sense of its sins and sufferings. Thus after the Spirit of God hath been a spirit of conviction, it becometh a spirit of bondage; that eye which was before enlightened to see the lewdness of his heart and life, cometh now to affect his heart with grief and sorrow: This we find in those Converts, Acts 2.37. when they had heard of their sin and guilt, they began to recant and repent: When they heard those things they were pricked to the heart. The nails which had pierced Christs hands now pierce their hearts. It was with them (saith one) as if the sharp points of daggers had been stuck or fastened in their hearts. They wounded themselves with sorrow, that ever they had wounded the Lord Jesus with their sins.
Man is so sinfully subtle, that he can bear the historical knowledge of these things in his understanding, he can hear the name of sin and hell, and be no more troubled then at a painted devil, or a tale of purgatory; but when God brings down sin from being a notion to be an obligation, and entereth an action against the soul within it self, then