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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.
O how sad is it that so many precious souls should lie lazing on their beds of security and idleness, and though the Sun shine brightly in upon them, they will not draw their curtains and open their eyes to behold it! That in a valley of vision, a Goshen, a land of light, thousands should live and dye in worse then Egyptian darkness; that the Bible should be a sealed book to them, and almost every one have the dark side of that glorious pillar towards him!
O how sad is it that so many precious souls should lie lazing on their beds of security and idleness, and though the Sun shine brightly in upon them, they will not draw their curtains and open their eyes to behold it! That in a valley of vision, a Goshen, a land of light, thousands should live and dye in worse then Egyptian darknesse; that the Bible should be a sealed book to them, and almost every one have the dark side of that glorious pillar towards him!
Reader, To cure this soul-murdering distemper, I have endeavoured (according to the trust committed to me, and the grace bestowed on me) to discover in this Treatise the life in Christ, or true Christianity, with the matchless endless felicity that accompanieth it; as also the nature and danger of unregeneracy, with the means to come out of it; by which thou mayst see that many cozen their souls with counterfeit coin (false evidences for heaven) instead of true, which will not abide the touchstone of Scripture, and so like Uriah, they carry ⟨image 15⟩those letters about them, though they know it not, which will at last cost them their lives, and cause their eternal deaths. That there is no fool like the sinner who selleth his soul for a song; his Saviour, his eternal happiness, the unspeakable pleasures at Gods right hand for evermore, for the perishing empty profits, and base brutish pleasures of sin, which are but for a season; Though sin be delightful in the act (to carnal wretches) yet it will be bitterness in the end. It will be a bitter-sweet to all its lovers, when for their momentany pleasure they shall be recompensed with eternity of intolerable unconceivable pain. That it is not for nothing that Ministers call so loudly and earnestly to thee, to kill those lusts which would kill thee, and to follow after holiness, without which no man shall ever see the Lord,