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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.
Be sure that thou perform family duties, as praying, reading, and the like, morning and evening; do not serve the flesh and the world all day, and then put God off with a few cold sleepy petitions at night; the command is, Pray continually, 1 Thess. 5.17. ⟨image 23⟩Daniel was at it three times a day, Dan. 6.10. David seven times a day, Psal. 119.164. Gods mercies are renewed on thee every morning, and should not thy prayers and praises be renewed every morning? Doth not the preservation of thy family every night, deserve family acknowledgement in the morning? Wearisome nights are appointed to others; the beds of others prove their graves, thou and thine might have awaken in hell; doth this distinguishing mercy deserve no thanks? Is not thy family every day liable to many dangers, both bodily and spiritual? doth it not need pitying, sanctifying, pardoning, directing, preventing mercy every day, nay every moment? and is not all this worth a prayer? Upon no account neglect the offering up of these morning and evening sacrifices; let thy prayers and of the rest in the family come up before the Lord in the morning like incense, and the lifting up of thine hands at night as an evening sacrifice.
Be sure that thou performe family duties, as praying, reading, and the like, morning and evening; do not serve the flesh and the world all day, and then put God off with a few cold sleepy petitions at night; the command is, Pray continually, 1 Thess. 5.17. ⟨image 23⟩Daniel was at it three times a day, Dan. 6.10. David seven times a day, Psal. 119.164. Gods mercies are renewed on thee every morning, and should not thy prayers and praises be renewed every morning? Doth not the preservation of thy family every night, deserve family acknowledgement in the morning? Wearisome nights are appointed to others; the beds of others prove their graves, thou and thine might have awaken in hell; doth this distinguishing mercy deserve no thanks? Is not thy family every day lyable to many dangers, both bodily and spiritual? doth it not need pitying, sanctifying, pardoning, directing, preventing mercy every day, nay every moment? and is not all this worth a prayer? Upon no account neglect the offering up of these morning and evening sacrifices; let thy prayers and of the rest in the family come up before the Lord in the morning like incense, and the lifting up of thine hands at night as an evening sacrifice.