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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.
Well Friend, repent timely and truly of this thy folly, for I must tell thee, shortly it will be too late; if repentance be hid from thy heart now, repentance will be hid from Gods eye then, by whose Law thou art now a condemned man already; if thy heart be hardened now in sinning, the heart of God will ere long be hardened in sentencing thee to an eternity of suffering.
It is an infinite mercy, that God yet alloweth ⟨p. 241⟩thee liberty for second thoughts, that notwithstanding thou hast shipwrecked thy soul, yet thou mayst swim out safe upon the plank of repentance. O therefore think no pains too great to break thy stony heart; it is worth the while, when free grace hath promised a vast reward to that heaven-born work. Hadst thou once offered up to God the sacrifice of a spirit truly sorrowful, out of love to God, and self-loathing, because of fin, I could tell thee as good, as joyful news, as ever thine ears heard: The Father of mercies, and God of comforts, will be reconciled to thee in the Lord Jesus: Thy prayers for pardon and life will pierce Gods ears, and find acceptance if they proceed from a broken heart, from sincere repentance. A penitent tear is a messenger that never went away without a satisfactory answer. Prayers with such tears are prevalent; yea (in Luther's phrase) omnipotent: Music upon the waters sounds most pleasantly: Thou hast heard the voice of my weeping, saith David, Psal. 6.8.
It is an infinite mercy, that God yet alloweth ⟨p. 241⟩thee liberty for second thoughts, that notwithstanding thou hast shipwracked thy soul, yet thou mayst swim out safe upon the plank of repentance. O therefore think no pains too great to break thy stony heart; it is worth the while, when free grace hath promised a vast reward to that heaven-born work. Hadst thou once offered up to God the sacrifice of a spirit truly sorrowful, out of love to God, and self-loathing, because of fin, I could tell thee as good, as joyful news, as ever thine ears heard: The Father of mercies, and God of comforts, will be reconciled to thee in the Lord Jesus: Thy prayers for pardon and life will pierce Gods ears, and find acceptance if they proceed from a broken heart, from sincere repentance. A penitent tear is a messenger that never went away without a satisfactory answer. Prayers with such tears are prevalent; yea (in Luthers phrase) omnipotent: Musick upon the waters sounds most pleasantly: Thou hast heard the voice of my weeping, saith David,