A62050:617
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.
1Certain it is (saith Mr. Robert Bolton) that if a man were crowned with the royal state, and imperial command of all the kingdoms upon earth; if his heart were enlarged to the utmost of all created capacities, and filled with all the exquisite and unmixed pleasures that the reach of mortality and most ambitious curiosity could possibly devise, and might without any interruption or distaste enjoy them the length of the worlds duration, they were all nothing to the precious and peerless comforts of the Kingdom of Grace but for one hour; I speak the truth in Christ, and use no Hyperbole; the Spirit of all comfort, and consciences of all true Christians, bearing me witness. What then will it be, my friend, to enjoy the unconceivable comforts of the Kingdom of Glory for ever? If one day in Gods Courts on earth be better to thee than a thousand elsewhere, how happy wilt thou be, when thou shalt dwell in the heavenly House of the Lord, and that for ever, ever? when thou shalt be a pillar in the Temple of thy God, and shalt go no more out for ever, Rev. 3.12. O sweet word, ever, ever; thou art music to the ear, and honey to the taste, and melody to the heart indeed: ⟨p. 323⟩to be free from all evil, both of sin & suffering, and to be for ever free from them; to be with the Lord, enjoying all good imaginable, and ever to be with the Lord. O how much worth doth this one word ever add to the Saints portion in the other world!
1Certain it is (saith Mr. Robert Bolton) that if a man were crowned with the royal state, and imperial command of all the kingdoms upon earth; if his heart were enlarged to the utmost of all created capacities, and filled with all the exquisite and unmixed pleasures that the reach of mortality and most ambitious curiosity could possibly devise, and might without any interruption or distaste enjoy them the length of the worlds duration, they were all nothing to the precious and peerless comforts of the Kingdom of Grace but for one hour; I speak the truth in Christ, and use no Hyperbole; the Spirit of all comfort, and consciences of all true Christians, bearing me witness. What then will it be, my friend, to enjoy the unconceivable comforts of the Kingdom of Glory for ever? If one day in Gods Courts on earth be better to thee than a thousand elsewhere, how happy wilt thou be, when thou shalt dwell in the heavenly House of the Lord, and that for ever, ever? when thou shalt be a pillar in the Temple of thy God, and shalt go no more out for ever,