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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 meaneth his joy at the birth-day of the new creature, when he is received with well-come into the sinners heart? The mother is as much pleased that her full breasts are drawn, as the child can be. The day of thy cordial acceptation of him, will be the day of the gladness of his heart; At such an hour he rejoiced in spirit, saith the Evangelist, Luke 10.22. He wept twice, and he bled (as some affirm) seven times; but we never read of his rejoicing, (if I mistake not) but in this place. And surely it was something that did extraordinarily take the heart of Christ, which could in the time of his humiliation tune his spirit into a merry note, and cause this man of sorrows to rejoice. Ah sinner, believe it, he would never so willingly have died such a cursed painful death, if he had not been willing that sinners should live a spiritual and eternal life.
What meaneth his joy at the birth-day of the new creature, when he is received with wel-come into the sinners heart? The mother is as much pleased that her full breasts are drawn, as the child can be. The day of thy cordal acceptation of him, will be the day of the gladness of his heart; At such an hour he rejoyced in spirit, saith the Evangelist, Luke 10.22. He wept twice, and he bled (as some affirm) seven times; but we never read of his rejoycing, (if I mistake not) but in this place. And surely it was something that did extraordinarily take the heart of Christ, which could in the time of his humiliation tune his spirit into a merry note, and cause this man of sorrows to rejoyce. Ah sinner, believe it, he would never so willingly have died such a cursed painful death, if he had not been willing that sinners should live a spiritual and eternal life.
What mean I say his invitations, expostulations, grief upon refusal, joy upon acceptance, his commands, entreaties, promises, threatenings, his wooing thee by the ⟨p. 184⟩