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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.
By what hath been largely spoken before in this Use, thou mayst perceive that there is no going to heaven per saltum, by leaping out of a dirty and stinking jakes, into the presence of the glorious God. There is a being made meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light, Coloss. 1.12.1 which is by sanctification. As clothes are by lighter colours fitted to receive a deep Scarlet dye; so thou must by this spiritual life of holiness, be fitted for the eternal life of glory. Observe 2 Cor. 5.5. the Apostle tells us, He that hath wrought us for the self-same thing (i. e. heaven) is God. Man is a rugged piece of timber, an unhewn stone; now the stone must be polished, and ⟨p. 196⟩the timber squared, before it can be fit for the heavenly building wrought for it.
By what hath been largely spoken before in this Use, thou mayst perceive that there is no going to heaven per saltum, by leaping out of a dirty and stinking jakes, into the presence of the glorious God. There is a being made meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light, Coloss. 1.12.1 which is by sanctification. As cloaths are by lighter colours fitted to receive a deep Scarlet dye; so thou must by this spiritual life of holiness, be fitted for the eternal life of glory. Observe 2 Cor. 5.5. the Apostle tells us, He that hath wrought us for the self-same thing (i. e. heaven) is God. Man is a rugged piece of timber, an unhewn stone; now the stone must be polished, and ⟨p. 196⟩the timber squared, before it can be fit for the heavenly building wrought for it.
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