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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.
Reader, if thou art in Christ, ponder much in time, the eternity of pleasure which is prepared for thee. Consider if there be so much felicity in seeing the lovely face of God in the glass of his Ordinances for one hour, what will there be when thou shalt see him face to face, and always behold the face of thy Father?
Reader, if thou art in Christ, ponder much in time, the eternity of pleasure which is prepared for thee. Consider if there be so much felicity in seeing the lovely face of God in the glasse of his Ordinances for one hour, what will there be when thou shalt see him face to face, and alwayes behold the face of thy Father?
When Christ and thy soul meet sweetly in a duty on the Lords day, and thou sittest under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit is sweet unto thy taste, thou thinkest the duty is done too soon, and the Sabbath is too short; thou couldst wish the Sun would stand still (as in the days of Joshua) a•d that day to be longer; but be encouraged; though thy Sabbaths now begin and end, yet within a few days thou shalt begin ⟨p. 322⟩that eternal Sabbath which shall never end.
When Christ and thy soul meet sweetly in a duty on the Lords day, and thou sittest under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit is sweet unto thy taste, thou thinkest the duty is done too soon, and the Sabbath is too short; thou couldst wish the Sun would stand still (as in the dayes of Joshua) a•d that day to be longer; but be encouraged; though thy Sabbaths now begin and end, yet within a few dayes thou shalt begin ⟨p. 322⟩that eternal Sabbath which shall never end.