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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.
Secondly, Do not rest in bare knowledge but endeavour to get thy will, affections, and heart renewed; a clear head must be accompanied with a clean heart; saving knowledge is ever a sanctifying knowledge. Content not thy self with any thing short of regeneration and the power of godliness; Master Robert Bolton, 1when dying, told his children, That he verily believed none of them durst think to meet him at the great tribunal in an unregenerate estate. So I am confident that none of you can with any comfort (nay without unspeakable horror and sorrow) meet me at the Bar of Christ in your natural estates. O how sad will it be for thee that art now asleep in sin, to ⟨image 19⟩awake (like the Jailer) at the midnight of death, and to find this inward change, this new creation, this life in Christ missing: what an heart quake will possess thee? how pale and trembling wilt thou spring into the presence of Christ, in the other world for thy particular judgement! Consider thy profession will not serve turn; the storm of death will wash out all colours of profession that are not laid in the oil of renewing grace, Mat. 25.8.
Secondly, Do not rest in bare knowledge but endeavor to get thy will, affections, and heart renewed; a clear head must be accompanied with a clean heart; saving knowledge is ever a sanctifying knowledge. Content not thy self with any thing short of regeneration and the power of godliness; Master Robert Bolton, 1when dying, told his children, That he verily believed none of them durst think to meet him at the great tribunal in an unregenerate estate. So I am confident that none of you can with any comfort (nay without unspeakable horror and sorrow) meet me at the Bar of Christ in your natural estates. O how sad will it be for thee that art now asleep in sin, to ⟨image 19⟩awake (like the Jailor) at the midnight of death, and to find this inward change, this new creation, this life in Christ missing: what an heart quake will possess thee? how pale and trembling wilt thou spring into the presence of Christ, in the other world for thy particular judgement! Consider thy profession will not serve turn; the storm of death will wash out all colours of profession that are not laid in the oyle of renewing grace,