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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.
But one would think such truths as these might be seasonable in Turkey or India, or in Spain and Italy, where the tree of knowledge is forbidden fruit, where they may not read their fathers mind in their mother tongue; but is it possible that in England (where the will and word of God is more powerfully preached, more practically applied, more clearly discovered than in any nation of the world) there should be any ignorant persons? Alas, alas, We find by woeful experience that there are many, very many Indians and heathen (for ignorance) in England. Men and women that know as little of God and holiness of Christ, his natures, offices, of true faith and repentance, as if they had been born, and bred up all their time in Turkey or India. I am ashamed to write what I know of the sottish stupid hellish ignorance of many, and some that are aged too, that are going to dye, and yet never knew what it was to live, either ⟨image 15⟩to God or their souls. The good Lord affect my heart more with the danger and dreadfulness of their eternal conditions.
But one would think such truths as these might be seasonable in Turky or India, or in Spain and Italy, where the tree of knowledge is forbidden fruit, where they may not read their fathers mind in their mother tongue; but is it possible that in England (where the will and word of God is more powerfully preached, more practically applied, more clearly discovered than in any nation of the world) there should be any ignorant persons? Alas, alas, We finde by woful experience that there are many, very many Indians and heathen (for ignorance) in England. Men and women that know as little of God and holiness of Christ, his natures, offices, of true faith and repentance, as if they had been born, and bred up all their time in Turky or India. I am ashamed to write what I know of the sottish stupid hellish ignorance of many, and some that are aged too, that are going to dye, and yet never knew what it was to live, either ⟨image 15⟩to God or their souls. The good Lord affect my heart more with the danger and dreadfulnesse of their eternal conditions.