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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.
Mortality is a flaw in all earthly tenures, which abateth their price, and embittereth their pleasures; but eternity is a diamond which sparkleth most radiantly in the crown of glory, and maketh it beyond all expression or comparison weighty.
Mortality is a flaw in all earthly tenures, which abateth their price, and imbittereth their pleasures; but eternity is a diamond which sparkleth most radiantly in the crown of glory, and maketh it beyond all expression or comparison weighty.
Christian, how may this persuade thee to be exact in thy walking with God, when in doing of his commands there is such great reward? Thy temporal obedience shall have an eternal recompense. If Zeuxis the famous Painter was so curious in drawing his lines, because he painted for Eternity; how exact shouldst thou be in all thy duties, how curious in the whole course of thy life, when thou dost all for eternity?
Christian, how may this perswade thee to be exact in thy walking with God, when in doing of his commands there is such great reward? Thy temporal obedience shall have an eternal recompence. If Zeuxis the famous Painter was so curious in drawing his lines, because he painted for Eternity; how exact shouldst thou be in all thy duties, how curious in the whole course of thy life, when thou dost all for eternity?
How may this support thee in the greatest dangers? Thy sufferings are temporal, but thy solace shall be eternal. If Saul, when called to an earthly kingdom for a short time, could hold his peace, when men despised and derided him; surely thou mayst be steady in ⟨p. 324⟩