A62050:87
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.
Phil. 1.12. For to me to live, is Christ, and to dye is gain.
IT is a memorable observation of that Christian Heathen,1 as he hath been sometime called, That the two great lessons, which every man hath to learn in the whole time of his life, are, how to live, and how to dye; how to live virtuously, and how to die valiantly. These two weighty questions are clearly and fully answered in this Text. It declareth and delivereth such directions about life, as could never be learned in the school of nature, improved to the utmost; It prepareth and provideth such a cordial against death, as could never be extracted out of all the creatures distilled together. And indeed herein the excellency of the Christian Religion ⟨image 37⟩[…] ⟨image 37⟩[…] ⟨image 38⟩[…] ⟨image 38⟩[…] ⟨image 39⟩[…] ⟨image 39⟩[…] ⟨image 40⟩[…] ⟨image 40⟩[…] ⟨image 41⟩[…] ⟨image 41⟩