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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.
The Jews say, That those seventy souls which went down into Egypt, were more worth then all the seventy Nations of the world beside. If the glorious Angels in heaven are more honourable than the Devils, sure I am, it is holiness that maketh the difference.
The Jews say, That those seventie souls which went down into Egypt, were more worth then all the seventie Nations of the world beside. If the glorious Angels in heaven are more honorable than the Devils, sure I am, it is holinesse that maketh the difference.
The most gaudy and goodly fruits of morality, springing from the soil of nature manured and improved to the utmost; The Heavens bespangled with those glittering Stars, and adorned with that illustrious Sun, ⟨p. 266⟩are nothing glorious in comparison of the heart of a poor Christian that is embroidered with grace. It is godliness alone that addeth worth and value to all our civil and natural things, as the Diamond to the Ring. Nothing doth really debase and degrade a man but sin; and nothing doth truly advance or ennoble the soul but holiness. Job scraping himself on the dunghill, and Jeremiah sinking in the mire, were more honourable and glorious, than Ahab and Ahaz on their Thrones with their Crowns. If the respect we have from others makes us honourable, then they that are most precious in Gods sight are most honourable, Isai. 43.4. If it be some internal excellency that makes men honourable, then they that have the Image of God must be most honourable.
The most gaudy and goodly fruits of moralitie, springing from the soil of nature manured and improved to the utmost; The Heavens bespangled with those glittering Stars, and adorned with that illustrious Sun, ⟨p. 266⟩are nothing glorious in comparison of the heart of a poor Christian that is embroidered with grace. It is godlinesse alone that addeth worth and value to all our civil and natural things, as the Diamond to the Ring. Nothing doth really debase and degrade a man but sin; and nothing doth truly advance or innoble the soul but holinesse. Job scraping himself on the dunghill, and Jeremiah sinking in the mire, were more honorable and glorious, than Ahab and Ahaz on their Thrones with their Crowns. If the respect we have from others makes us honorable, then they that are most precious in Gods sight are most honorable,