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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.
How joyful mayest thou leave thy dearest wife, to go to thine infinitely dearer husband? How willingly mayest thou forsake thy lovely children, to go to thy loving God and Father? How freely mayest thou part with all thy friends, honours, and pleasures, to go to the Congregation of the ⟨p. 283⟩first-born, those rivers of pleasures, and eternal weight of glory! How cheerfully mayest thou bid adieu to nothing for all things, to stars and streams (at best) for a full, immediate, eternal enjoyment of the Sun himself, of an immense Ocean of happiness! With what a lively colour in thy face and true comfort in thy heart mayest thou behold that pale-faced messenger death (the thought of whom though a far off is death to others) entering into thy Chamber, and coming up to thy bed-side, how heartily welcome mayest thou bid him, as knowing that he cometh purposely to give thee actual possession of fullness of joy, unspeakable delights, a Kingdom of glory that is eternal in the heavens! O the gain of godliness, the profit of piety, surely the price of this pearl is scarce known in this world!
How joyful maist thou leave thy dearest wife, to go to thine infinitely dearer husband? How willingly maist thou forsake thy lovely children, to go to thy loving God and Father? How freely maist thou part with all thy friends, honors, and pleasures, to go to the Congregation of the ⟨p. 283⟩first-born, those rivers of pleasures, and eternal weight of glory! How chearfully maist thou bid adieu to nothing for all things, to stars and streams (at best) for a full, immediate, eternal enjoyment of the Sun himself, of an immense Ocean of happiness! With what a lively colour in thy face and true comfort in thy heart maist thou behold that pale-faced messenger death (the thought of whom though a far off is death to others) entering into thy Chamber, and coming up to thy bed-side, how heartily welcome maist thou bid him, as knowing that he cometh purposely to give thee actual possession of fulness of joy, unspeakable delights, a Kingdom of glory that is eternal in the heavens! O the gain of godliness, the profit of piety, surely the price of this pearl is scarce known in this world!