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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 cause of mens scandalous practices but ignorance? The dark corners of the earth ar• full of the habitations of cruelty, Psal. 74.20. The flood-gates of wickedness are open, when the door of knowledge is shut; the cause why there was no mercy, nor truth in the land, but swearing, and lying, and stealing, committing adultery, and blood touching blood, was ignorance, Hos. 4.1, 2. This is the root of bitterness on which those cursed fruits grow. This is the blind Captain, which like Zilpah hath a Gad, a troop of enormities following him. Paul thanks ignorance for his blasphemy and persecuting the Church, 1 Tim. 1.13. The reason why the heathen did not call on God, was because they did not know him, Psal. 79.6. The ⟨image 13⟩most ugly and monstrous wickedness, which ever was hatched or brought forth, calleth ignorance mother. Had they known, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory, 1 Cor. 2.8. Act. 3.15.17. What Augustine saith of Original sin, is (in some respects) true of Ignorance, it is peccatum, poena peccati, & causa peccati; It is a sin as contrary to the law of God which requireth men to know him, 1 Chron. 28.9. Lev. 5.15.18. It is the punishment of sin as the fruit of our apostasy from God; It is the cause of sin, as toads and serpents grow in dark cellars; as blind Alehouses are sinks and sources of all villainies, so are dark and blind hearts. They are strangers to the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, Eph 4.18.
What is the cause of mens scandalous practices but ignorance? The dark corners of the earth ar• full of the habitations of cruelty,