A62050:420
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.
Augustus Caesar having promised a great reward to any that could bring him the ⟨p. 242⟩head of a famous Pirate, did yet, when the Pirate heard of it, and brought it himself, and laid it at his feet,1 not only pardon, but teward him for his confidence in his mercy.
- 1Suet. in vit.
As* Antipater was answered by Alexander, Thou hast written a long Letter against my Mother, but dost thou not know that one tear of hers will wash out all her faults? When the returning sinner weeps, the tender-hearted Father smi!es: As he rejoiceth and laugheth at obstinate sinners destruction and ruin,2 Proverbs 1.26. so he rejoiceth and smileth at the penitent sinners conversion. He will do something for an hypocritical humiliation, to assure us, that he will do any thing upon a sincere humiliation. Seest thou, saith God, how Ahab humbleth himself? this judgement shall not be in his days, but in his Sons days, 1 Kings 21, 29. A pitiful humiliation it was God knew; he looked sadly like a Fox in a trap, merely to get out, yet God takes notice of it, and deferreth the judgement upon it. If God set such a price upon counterfeit, ⟨p. 243⟩what will he upon true gold? Fierce Esau relenteth towards submitting Jacob, though he came against him ready and resolved to destroy him. Surely then the God of compassions (to whose pity and mercy the bowels of all the creatures are but as a drop to the Ocean) who calleth those that go from him, will not cast away those that come to him.