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The gods are men
The gods are men: or The mortality of persons in places of magistracy. As it was explained and applied in a sermon preached at the assize holden at Hertford for that county on March 15. 1656/7. By George Swinnocke M.A. last Fellow of Balliol College in Oxford, and now preacher of the gospel at Rickmersworth in Hertfordshire.The gods are men: or The mortality of persons in places of magistracy. As it was explained and applied in a sermon preached at the assize holden at Hertford for that county on March 15. 1656/7. By George Swinnocke M.A. last Fellow of Bailiol Colledge in Oxford, and now preacher of the gospel at Rickmersworth in Hertfordshire.
London: printed for N. Webb, 1657London: printed for N. VVebb, 1657
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The GODS Die like MEN, OR MAGISTRATES are Mortal.The GODS Die like MEN, OR MAGISTRATES are Mortall.
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.
1Fifthly, Must ye die, and would ye prepare for death? labour to find some inward work of grace wrought upon your hearts; be not contented with forms, but mind the power of godliness. A man may live by a form, but he cannot die by a form: An heart not balanced with grace, may hold out in the calm of life; but when the boisterous winds of sickness blow, and the storm of death cometh, it will suffer shipwreck: When death cometh, when that damp ariseth, the Candle of Profession separated from the Power of Religion, will first burn blew, and then go out: The bellows of death will blow the spark of sincerity into a flame, and the blaze of hypocrisy into nothing. O therefore get that saying of our Saviour written on your hearts; Verily, 2verily, I say unto you, except a man be born again, he can never see the Kingdom of God. 3A worthy Divine, now in Heaven, observeth four things from this verse: 1: The manner of the assertion, Verily, verily. 2. The matter asserted, except a man be born again; Non unius partis correctionem, ⟨p. 27⟩sed totius naturae renovationem designat. Calvin. 43. The universality of the assertion, it is equivalent to an universal proposition, though he be a man civil in his conversation, a Saint in his generation, yet he must be born again. 4. The necessity of it, without regeneration no salvation; he cannot see the Kingdom of God.
1Fifthly, Must ye die, and would ye prepare for death? labour to find some inward work of grace wrought upon your hearts; be not contented with forms, but mind the power of godliness. A man may live by a form, but he cannot die by a form: An heart not ballanced with grace, may hold out in the calm of life; but when the boisterous winds of sicknesse blow, and the storm of death cometh, it will suffer shipwrack: When death cometh, when that damp ariseth, the Candle of Profession separated from the Power of Religion, will first burn blew, and then go out: The bellows of death will blow the spark of sincerity into a flame, and the blaze of hypocrisie into nothing. O therefore get that saying of our Saviour written on your hearts; Verily,