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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.
In him thou livest, movest, and hast thy being; the light doth not so much depend on the Sun, as thy life and all thy comforts depend on Christ. Now (be thy own judge) what service, what obedience may the Lord Jesus look for at thy hands? If the world or the flesh could do half so much for thee, thou wert more excusable, then now thou art in doing so much for them.
In him thou livest, movest, and hast thy being; the light doth not so much depend on the Sun, as thy life and all thy comforts depend on Christ. Now (be thy own judge) what service, what obedience may the Lord Jesus look for at thy hands? If the world or the flesh could do half so much for thee, thou wer't more excuseable, then now thou art in doing so much for them.
Again, when the question ariseth, Whether Christ or the flesh, Christ or the world should have thy greatest esteem, or love, or trust, or the most of thy time and strength, and talents; One would think thou shouldst be ashamed to put such a question, or at least, that the very mention of it would be a sufficient answer to it. Alas, what are all the honours and pleasures, riches and relations, delicates and diadems of the whole world to Jesus Christ, but as pebbles to pearls, dirt to Diamonds, dross to gold, nothing to all things? there is surely no comparison. The whole world of heaven and earth doth not so far excel a feather as Jesus Christ doth the whole world.
Again, when the question ariseth, Whether Christ or the flesh, Christ or the world should have thy greatest esteem, or love, or trust, or the most of thy time and strength, and talents; One would think thou shouldst be ashamed to put such a question, or at least, that the very mention of it would be a sufficient answer to it. Alas, what are all the honours and pleasures, riches and relations, delicates and diadems of the whole world to Jesus Christ, but as pebbles to pearls, dirt to Diamonds, dross to gold, nothing to all things? there is surely no comparison. The whole world of heaven and earth doth not so far excell a feather as Jesus Christ doth the whole world.