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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 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, Psal. 95.10, 11. where the God of truth confirmeth it by an oath that they ⟨image 17⟩which do not know his ways, shall not enter into his rest. One would think that a prisoner should be both earnest and diligent to learn his neck verse, who knoweth he must be hanged if he cannot read; and dost not thou read in broad Characters, in the word of God, that thou must be an eternal monument of divine fury in hell, if thou dost not learn to know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent? doth it not then behove thee to be diligent for knowledge?
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 Hammans face was covered, his execution was near. Do not delude and destroy thy soul by presuming that thy ignorance will not damne thee; for if thou art without knowledge, he that made thee will not save thee, and he that formed thee will shew thee no mercy, Isa. 27.11. Mark Reader but this one place,