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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.
Joseph, when he was sent for to Pharaoh out of prison, changed his Raiment and trimmed himself, and then appeared before the King.
Joseph, when he was sent for to Pharaoh out of prison, changed his Rayment and trimmed himself, and then appeared before the King.
And as there must be Regeneration, or the beginning of grace, so there must be a proficiency or growth in grace, to prepare the soul for the weight of glory.* There is a double right which every child of God hath to heaven. 1. Jus haereditarium, an hereditary right, and that is at regeneration, when he is put into Christ, and made a Co-heir with him of his Inheritance, having grace begun in him, which shall be perfected in glory, and was given as a principle ordained to such a perfection. 2. Jus aptitudinarium, and that is a right of fitness, whereby we are qualified to receive such a mercy; and that as an heir hath a right of inheritance in his non-age, but he hath not a right of fitness till he come to years, and be able to manage his estate, when he hath received it. Reader, in both these respects there is a necessity that thou presently make a deed of gift of thy self, and thy all unto Jesus Christ, and that thou ⟨p. 197⟩never more look upon thy self (or any thing thou hast) as thine own, but as a servant entrusted with them for thy Masters use and advantage.
And as there must be Regeneration, or the beginning of grace, so there must be a proficiency or growth in grace, to prepare the soul for the weight of glory.* There is a double right which every child of God hath to heaven. 1. Jus haereditarium, an hereditary right, and that is at regeneration, when he is put into Christ, and made a Co-heir with him of his Inheritance, having grace begun in him, which shall be perfected in glory, and was given as a principle ordained to such a perfection. 2. Jus aptitudinarium, and that is a right of fitness, whereby we are qualified to receive such a mercy; and that as an heir hath a right of inheritance in his non-age, but he hath not a right of fitness till he come to years, and be able to manage his estate, when he hath received it. Reader, in both these respects there is a necessity that thou presently make a deed of gift of thy self, and thy all unto Jesus Christ, and that thou