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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.
To me to live is Christ. To me who am in Christ,1 to me to live is Christ. I live not only the life of nature, but I live also the life of grace; I have not only a being from Christ as a man, but likewise a well-being in Christ as a Christian; as I did receive my life from Christ, so I do improve my life for Christ; his honour is my utmost desire, and my greatest endeavour.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]. Nam mihi vivere Christus est, i. e. Tota meavita ad hoc ordinata est ut per meum ministerium perque meam vocationem verbis & factis promoveam pro mea virili regnum Christi. Au non hac res bona & cuique fiddly optanda? Zanch. in loc.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Nam mihi vivere Christus est, i. e. Tota meavita ad hoc ordinata est ut per meum ministerium perque meam vocationem verbis & factis promoveam pro mea virili regnum Christi. Au non hac res bona & cuique fideli optanda? Zanch. in loc.
And to die is gain, i. e.1 I having had no other object, no employment but Christ and his service in my life, shall certainly have an eternal advancement at my death. Or Christ is my life here by grace, and hereafter by glory; He is both the Author and the end of my life; I live for him, I live to him, I live in him, I live by him, and if I be put to death, that shall no way endamage me, but rather bring me great advantage, in regard that thereby I shall gain heaven for earth, an happy eternal life for this miserable mortal life. So our larger Annotations sense it.a Some indeed read the words, Christ is my gain both in life and death, and therefore the Apostle was little troubled at, but rather indifferent to all conditions. There is a certain truth in this Exposition, though