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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.
4. By an earnest, that makes a bargain sure: Who hath sealed us, and given the earnest of the spirit in our hearts, 2 Cor. 1.22.
When Christ went from us, he left his Spirit with us, to assure us, that he would ⟨p. 318⟩come to us; and took our flesh with him, to assure us, that we shall come to him.
5. By first fruits, Rom. 8.23. which did assure the Jews of their harvest.
6. By the death of Christ. Heaven is given to the holy by testament, by Will; John 17.24. Father, I will (saith the then dying Saviour) that they whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory. Now because a Testament or Will is of no force whilst the Testator liveth, therefore Christ died to make his Will valid,