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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.
The Lord give thee an heart to obey his counsel in order to thy conversion, and then I am sure thou wilt have cause to give him thanks that I would not let thee sleep quietly on a bed that was in a flame, nor in an condition that was next door to infinite misery and eternal desperation.
Thirdly, exalt godliness in thy family. If once Christ be chief in thy heart, I am confident he will to thy utmost power be so in thy house; that thou art really, which thou art relatively. Labour that thy children and servants may know and serve God▪ Dwell with thy wife as a man of knowledge, as heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered. 1 Pet. 3.7. ⟨image 21⟩Bring up thy children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, Eph. 6 4. Teach thy servants their duty to God and their own souls. Consider these are the laws of the righteous God; and ere long when thou shalt leave all the dying and lying vanities of this world, thou must give an account in the other world, how thou hast obeyed them. God hath committed a great trust to thee, even the charge of the souls of all in thy family; and doth not thine heart tremble to think of soul-blood, of soul-murder! I assure thee thou mayst be as truly and really guilty of their deaths and damnations by starving them as by poisoning them. I mean by not instructing, catechizing, and principling them in the things of God, by not praying with them, and over seeing that they mind the worship of God, as in making them drunk, and teaching them to steal and swear.
Thirdly, exalt godliness in thy family. If once Christ be chief in thy heart, I am confident he will to thy utmost power be so in thy house; that thou art really, which thou art relatively. Labor that thy children and servants may know and serve God▪ Dwell with thy wife as a man of knowledge, as heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindred.