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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.
1Canst thou (saith an eminent Minister now with Christ) make thy self a Christ for thy self? Canst thou bear, and come from under an infinite wrath? canst thou bring in perfect righteousness into the presence of God? This Christ must do, else he could not satisfy and redeem. And if thou canst not do this, and hast no Christ, desire and pray, till heaven and earth shake, till thou hast worn thy tongue to the stumps; endeavour as much as thou canst, and others commend thee for a diligent Christian: mourn in some wilderness, till Dooms-day; dig thy grave there with thy nails; weep ⟨p. 175⟩buckets full of hourly tears, till thou canst weep no more; fast and pray, till thy skin and bones cleave together; promise and purpose, with full resolution to be better; nay, reform thy head, heart, life and tongue; and some, nay all fins; live like an Angel, shine like a Sun, walk up and down the world like a distressed pilgrim going to another Country; so that all Christians commend and admire thee; die ten thousand deaths, lie at the fire-back in hell so many millions of years as there be piles of grass upon the earth, or sands upon the sea-shore, or stars in the firmament, or motes in the Sun: I tell thee, not one spark of the wrath of God against thy sin shall be, can be quenched by all these duties, nor by any of these sorrows; for these are not the blood of Christ.
1Canst thou (saith an eminent Minister now with Christ) make thy self a Christ for thy self? Canst thou bear, and come from under an infinite wrath? canst thou bring in perfect righteousnesse into the presence of God? This Christ must do, else he could not satisfie and redeem. And if thou canst not do this, and hast no Christ, desire and pray, till heaven and earth shake, till thou hast worn thy tongue to the stumps; endeavour as much as thou canst, and others commend thee for a diligent Christian: mourn in some wildernesse, till Dooms-day; dig thy grave there with thy nails; weep ⟨p. 175⟩buckets full of hourly tears, till thou canst weep no more; fast and pray, till thy skin and bones cleave together; promise and purpose, with full resolution to be better; nay, reform thy head, heart, life and tongue; and some, nay all fins; live like an Angel, shine like a Sun, walk up and down the world like a distressed pilgrim going to another Countrey; so that all Christians commend and admire thee; die ten thousand deaths, lie at the fire-back in hell so many millions of years as there be piles of grasse upon the earth, or sands upon the sea-shore, or stars in the firmament, or motes in the Sun: I tell thee, not one spark of the wrath of God against thy sin shall be, can be quenched by all these duties, nor by any of these sorrowes; for these are not the blood of Christ.