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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.
Desire God to consider his own promise as well as his praise. Urge his own word, That they that ask shall receive, that seek shall find, that knock shall have heaven opened. That if men know how to give good gifts to them that ask, how much more will the Father in heaven give his holy Spirit to them that ask. That he will circumcise the hearts of men and women to love him, Deut. 30.6. That he will put his fear into their hearts, and they shall never depart away from him Jer. 32.40. That he will write his Law in their hearts, Ezek. 31.33. Go in to him when thou art full of heaviness, as Bathsheba did to David, and say,1 Did not my Lord promise thus & thus? & ⟨p. 258⟩is it thy mind that thy word should go unfulfilled? Lord, are not these thy own words? thine own hand writing? whose staff and bracelet is this? If thou hadst not promised, I should not have found in my heart to pray: And if thou shouldst not perform, where would be the glory of thy truth? Thy mercy, O Lord, is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds, Psal. 57.10. My soul cleaveth unto the dust, quicken thou me according to thy word, Psal. 119.25. Remember thy word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope, Psa. 119.49.
Desire God to consider his own promise as well as his praise. Urge his own word, That they that ask shall receive, that seek shall find, that knock shall have heaven opened. That if men know how to give good gifts to them that ask, how much more will the Father in heaven give his holy Spirit to them that ask. That he will circumcise the hearts of men and women to love him, Deut. 30.6. That he will put his fear into their hearts, and they shall never depart away from him