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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.
3. It is comfortable against the corruptions of thine own heart. What is it now that is thy greatest sorrow? Is it not thy sin? These are the weights which hang on the clock of thy heart, and will not suffer it to rest day or night. Well, rejoice in hope; at death all these Achans, which are the troublers of thy peace, shall be stoned to death; all these Jonahs, which cause such storms in thy soul, shall be cast over-board; all these Hamans which seek the ruin of thee and thy people, shall be executed.
3. It is comfortable against the corruptions of thine own heart. What is it now that is thy greatest sorrow? Is it not thy sin? These are the weights which hang on the clock of thy heart, and will not suffer it to rest day or night. Well, rejoyce in hope; at death all these Achans, which are the troublers of thy peace, shall be stoned to death; all these Jonahs, which cause such stormes in thy soul, shall be cast over-board; all these Hamans which seek the ruine of thee and thy people, shall be executed.
Now it is thy great care in every Ordinance to kill thy sins. Dost thou not like Joab set the Uriah of thy beloved lust in the fore-front of every duty, and retire from it out of pious policy, that it may be slain? And when at any time it pleaseth the Captain of thy salvation to send the supplies of ⟨p. 298⟩his Spirit, and wound mortally thy corruption, that it lieth gasping and dying before thee; dost thou not look up to Christ and say (as Cushi to David concerning dead Absalom) Would to God, that all the enemies of my Lord the King, and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt were as that young man is. Lord, that all my sins might drink of the same cup, and be served the same sauce. Blessed be the Lord my God, which hath avenged me this day of mine enemy. If God should thrust the knife of mortification up to the haft, in the very hearts of all thy sins, that thou couldst see thy pride, distrust, unthankfulness, hardness of heart, and every corruption in a gore-blood, fetching their last breath, would it not be a lovely sight to thee? Wouldst thou not look upon it, with as much content as Hannibal did upon a pit full of the blood of men, when he cried out, O beautiful sight?