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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.
Without this thou canst never be Religious, notwithstanding all thy pretences that thou meanest well, and hast as good an heart as the best. If thou knowest not the God of thy fathers, thou canst never serve him with a perfect heart, 1 Chron. 28.9. All thy worship will be but wild, and wandering from God; all thy services but the ⟨image 16⟩sacrifice of a fool; The foundation of obedience must be laid in knowledge, Mal. 1.8. till then thou offerest up to the Lord, the lame and blind, which he will not accept. God expecteth reasonable services, Rom. 12.1. such for which thou canst give a good reason out of his word, which must be the warrant of thy worship. Be not therefore in shape a man, a reasonable creature, and as NebuchadneZZar, in heart a beast; be not as the horse and mule which hath no understanding, Psal. 32.9.
Without knowledge thou canst not be saved; If the Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that perish, 2 Cor. 4.4. Wilful ignorance is a sad sign that thou art in Gods black bill. If God will ever have thee to be saved, he will bring thee to the knowledge of this truth, 1 Tim. 2.4. When Haman's face was covered, his execution was near. Do not delude and destroy thy soul by presuming that thy ignorance will not damn thee; for if thou art without knowledge, he that made thee will not save thee, and he that formed thee will show thee no mercy, Isa. 27.11. Mark Reader but this one place,