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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.
I would also desire thee to ponder much the free grace of God, which is discovered in the Gospel; what bowels of compassion in the Father to give his Son; what infinite affection in the Son, to give himself for the reconciliation and salvation of his enemies. It is probable the heat of this unknown love may melt thy frozen spirit: This is the most ingenuous sorrow which is never to be sorrowed for, which springeth from the consideration that thou hast sinned against so good, so pure, so perfect a God, in conformity to whom, and communion with whom, all thy happiness consisteth. The Law indeed is of excellent use to open the sore, to search the wound, to make the Patient feel his need of, and set a price upon his Physician; thus it is a Schoolmaster to drive the soul to Christ; ⟨p. 248⟩but winter fruits are more harsh and sour, when summer fruits are sweet and pleasant. God taketh most delight in those tears and sorrow, which are the fruits of hot love to his blessed Majesty. And could I see them once in thee, I durst joy thee of thy Babe of Grace, the new Creation. They are at least the kindly bearing throws of one in travail, very near her hour of delivery, as also often the after-pains: A stroke from guilt, from wrath, broke Judas heart into despair: A look from love, from Christ, broke Peters into tears.1 That sap and moisture which in frost and snow lieth hid and buried in the earth, showeth it self pleasantly in the fruits of the trees, when it is called forth by the warmth of the Sun.
I would also desire thee to ponder much the free grace of God, which is discovered in the Gospel; what bowels of compassion in the Father to give his Son; what infinite affection in the Son, to give himself for the reconciliation and salvation of his enemies. It is probable the heat of this unknown love may melt thy frozen spirit: This is the most ingenuous sorrow which is never to be sorrowed for, which springeth from the consideration that thou hast sinned against so good, so pure, so perfect a God, in conformity to whom, and communion with whom, all thy happinesse consisteth. The Law indeed is of excellent use to open the sore, to search the wound, to make the Patient feel his need of, and set a price upon his Physitian; thus it is a Schoolmaster to drive the soul to Christ; ⟨p. 248⟩