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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.
But especially at the time of a Christians conversion he is to mind contrition; when the vessel is newly tapped, then it runneth most freely and plentifully. None might approach the King of Persia's Court in sackcloth and mourning, Est. 4.2. but no wandering sinner may draw near to the King of Heaven without it.1 Except ye repent ye shall perish. God is resolved to break the sinners heart on earth, or his back in hell. He will have the wound searched, ⟨p. 237⟩and the pain of it felt, before it be bound up and cured. The wicked Prodigal must come to his Father with compunction in his soul, as well as confession in his mouth.
But especially at the time of a Christians conversion he is to mind contrition; when the vessel is newly tapt, then it runneth most freely and plentifully. None might approach the King of Persia's Court in sackcloth and mourning, Est. 4.2. but no wandring sinner may draw near to the King of Heaven without it.1 Except ye repent ye shall perish. God is resolved to break the sinners heart on earth, or his back in hell. He will have the wound search'd, ⟨p. 237⟩and the pain of it felt, before it be bound up and cured. The wicked Prodigal must come to his Father with compunction in his soul, as well as confession in his mouth.
- 1Aut paenitendum, aut pereundum
Look therefore, O sinner, into the book of thy conscience, and read over the black lines that still are in thy cursed heart, and the bloody leaves of thy wicked life; how long thou hast lived to little purpose, yea, to the killing of thy soul for ever; how far thou hast been from accomplishing the end for which thou wast born, and the errand for which thou wast sent into the world. Keep a petty Assize in thy heart; prefer a large Bill of Indictment against thy self; accuse and condemn thy self, not only verbally, but cordially, if ever thou wouldst have Christ to acquit thee. Thou hast spent many years in sinning, and shouldst thou not spend some hours in sorrowing? Thou didst make the soul of Jesus Christ sorrowful unto death; shall not therefore thy soul be sorrowful, when thy sorrow may be unto life? Did the Rocks rent when he died for sin, & shall not thy rocky heart that thou hast lived […] sin? He bled for thee, and wilt not thou