A62050:537
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.
Lastly, godliness will be profitable to thee when thou diest; death which is the terrible of terribles to others, will be the comfortable of comfortables to thee. Thou needest never fear ill news in thine ears, having Christ and grace in thy heart; others shall not be such unspeakable losers by death, but thou shalt be as great a gainer.
Lastly, godliness will be profitable to thee when thou diest; death which is the terrible of terribles to others, will be the comfortable of comfortables to thee. Thou needest never fear ill news in thine ears, having Christ and grace in thy heart; others shall not be such unspeakable loosers by death, but thou shalt be as great a gainer.
When thou liest on thy death bed (where all thy friends and riches, and earthly comforts will fail thee) this spiritual life is the good part which shall never be taken from thee) Thou mayest look upward, and see (as it were) God smiling on thee in the face of Christ, and hear him call to his angels to go and fetch thee his child (who hast been all this while at nurse) home to the fathers house. Thou mayst look downward on thy relations, and with much faith and cheerfulness commit thy fatherless children to God, and bid thy weeping widow trust in him, ⟨p. 282⟩who will be infinitely better to them than ten thousand of the richest tenderest fathers and husbands in the world. Thou mayest look without thee into Scripture, and behold it as a garden full of sweet flowers, comforting cordials, refreshing, heart-reviving promises; and though it be an enclosure to others, its open and free to thee; thou mayest pick and choose, cull and gather where thou pleasest, and needst not fear to be chidden. In the multitude of those perplexing thoughts which at that time may be within thee. thou mayest find choice comforts there to refresh thy spirit. If thou look within thee, thou shalt not have thy conscience like an unquiet wife frowning on thee, and scolding at thee; but thou shalt hear a little bird singing merrily and sweetly in thy breast, Lord, Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation.