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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 love was that in the Father which sent his own Son to die, that thou mightst live! Well might the beloved Disciple say, God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him, might not perish, but have everlasting life, Joh. 3.16. In this the bowels of divine love are naked, as in an Anatomy: In other things the love of God is as the beams of the Sun scattered, which are warm and comfortable; but in this it is as the beams of the Sun united in a burning-glass, ⟨p. 251⟩hot fiery burning love; God so loved the world, so dearly, so entirely, so incomparably, so infinitely: It is a sic without a sicut (as one observeth) a pattern which can never be paralleled. In this God commended his love towards us, in that when we were sinners Christ died for us, Rom. 5.8. when God sent his Son into the world, he did as it were say to him, My dear Son, thou Son of my chiefest love and choicest delight, go to the wicked unworthy world, commend me to them, and tell them, that in thee I have sent them such a love-token, such an unquestionable testimony of my favour and good-will towards them, that hereafter they shall never have the least colour of reason to suspect my love, or to say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Malachi 1.2.
What love was that in the Father which sent his own Son to die, that thou mightst live! Well might the beloved Disciple say, God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him, might not perish, but have everlasting life, Joh. 3.16. In this the bowels of divine love are naked, as in an Anatomy: In other things the love of God is as the beames of the Sun scattered, which are warm and comfortable; but in this it is as the beames of the Sun united in a burning-glasse, ⟨p. 251⟩hot fiery burning love; God so loved the world, so dearly, so intirely, so incomparably, so infinitely: It is a sic without a sicut (as one observeth) a pattern which can never be parallel'd. In this God commended his love towards us, in that when we were sinners Christ died for us,