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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.
First to show thee against what it is comfortable.
First to shew thee against what it is comfortable.
Secondly, wherein it is comfortable.
For the first: It is comfortable first against the opposition of the world; The world will hate thee, because thou art not of the world, John 15.19. She is a Paradise to her children and lovers; but a Purgatory to aliens and strangers. Whilst thou art in the stormy sea of this world, thou art a ⟨p. 291⟩ship bound for the Straits. He that goeth towards the Sun, shall have his shadow following him; but he that goeth from it shall have it fly before. He that goeth towards the Sun of Righteousness shall be sure to have these shadows, these afflictions at his heels.
For the first: It is comfortable first against the opposition of the world; The world will hate thee, because thou art not of the world, John 15.19. She is a Paradise to her children and lovers; but a Purgatory to aliens and strangers. Whilst thou art in the stormy sea of this world, thou art a ⟨p. 291⟩ship bound for the Streights. He that goeth towards the Sun, shall have his shadow following him; but he that goeth from it shall have it flie before. He that goeth towards the Sun of Righteousnesse shall be sure to have these shadows, these afflictions at his heels.