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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62050	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.	Swinnock, George, 1627-1673.	1659 (1659)	Wing S6279; ESTC R222455	190,466	458

they are of such exceeding importance that if thou art once perswaded to them my work will be half effected and because delayes and laziness are the two great gulphs in which such multitudes of souls are drowned and perish I shall speak the more to them My first request to thee is that thou wouldst presently set about the affairs of thy soul We say of things that must be done De rebus necessariis non est deliberandum there needeth not any deliberation about them Is not this the one thing necessary to prepare for the last hour to make sure of thine everlasting well-fare In re tam justa nulla est consultatio If thou believest the word of God thou wilt not give the flesh so much breath as to debate it muchless wilt thou as Felix did put off the thoughts of righteousness and judgement to come till thou art at better leisure till thou hast a more convenient season What more weighty work hast thou to do then to work out thy own salvation Is the following thy calling hoarding up an heaps of earth feeding cloathing that flesh which shall shortly be food for worms is any of these half so necessary as thy provision for eternity If thou art old its high time to begin to prepare for thy latter end Thou hast the feet of thy body almost already in the earth in the grave and hadst thou not need have the feet of thy soul thy affections in heaven Thou hast but a little time to converse with men doth it not behove thee to be much in communion with God Death often possibly knocketh at thy door by the hand of sickness and warneth thee to look after another habitation for thou art to be turned out of thy house of clay Dost thou take warning what wilt thou do if thou shouldest dye before thou didst ever begin to live If the Sun of thy life should set before the Sun of righteousness hath arisen on thee all the while thou livest thou art dead and thou livest long to add to thy torments as others have died soon to hasten them Thou art but like stubble laid out a drying to burn the better in hell all the while thou continuest a stranger to the new birth Thou hast every day been treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath been gathering as it were more wood to increase those flames in which thou if thou thus diest shalt live for ever Because judgement against an evil work is not speedily executed therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil though a sinner do evil an hundred times and his dayes be prolonged it shall not go well with the wicked Eccles 8 11 12 23. The sinner an hundred years old shall be accursed Isa 65.20 I have read of the Circassians a kind of mungrel Christians that they divide their time betwixt the Devil and God dedicating their youth to robbery and their old age to repentance How much time hast thou spent in the service of sin how little time hast thou left the service of God and thy soul Is it not high time for thee to number thy dayes and to apply thy heart unto wisdom speedily Old sinner dost thou not tremble to think that there is but a step betwixt thee and death nay betwixt thee and hell O the time and talents and opportunities which thou hast to reckon for more then others Happy happy had it been for thee to have been turned out of the wombe into hell rather then to dye an old man and not a babe in Christ If thou hast a sparke of love to thy self mind thine inward change presently least thy change come even death and send thee to unchangeable misery If thou art young Honor adolescentum est timorem Dei habere Ambros de offici mind the gathering the Manna of godliness in the morning of thine age present the first fruits of thy life to that God who desireth the first ripe fruits Exod. 3.19 The firstlings are his darlings Gen. 4.4 and that cloth will keep colour best that is died in the Wool the vessel will sente longest of that liquor with which it is first seasoned let thy soul like Gideons Fleece drink up betimes the dews of grace As young as thou art thy life is every moment at the mercy of the Lord There is a saying that in Golgatha there are skulls of all sizes In the Church-yard thou mayest see graves of all sorts and some of thy very length thou art concerned therefore to remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth Aquinas telleth us the young man hath death at his back the old man before his eyes and that is the more dangerous enemy that pursueth thee then that which marcheth up towards thy face This calleth for the greater care and watchfulness In the Isle of Man the maides spin their winding sheets the first thing they spin do thou in youth and health ponder and prepare for thy death lest as young and strong as thou art death trip up thy heels and throw thee and it prove thine everlasting overthrow Besides canst thou imagine that such a sinner deserveth favor who cometh in to serve God at last when he can serve his lust no longer Is it equal be thy own judge to give the flower of thine age the spring of thy life the best of thy time thine health and strength to the devil and thy brutish flesh and to give the dregs the snuffe the bottom of all this to the infinitely glorious God whose creature thou art at whose cost and charge thou livest every day and night and who calleth upon thee for thy service not for the need he hath of thee but because of the need thou standest in of him all whose happiness doth consist in the pleasing and enjoying his Majesty Whoever thou art of what age soever either set speedily about thy soul-work or answer these few questions the Lord shall put to thee or be speechless and without excuse at the day of Christ First Hath not God waited upon thee long enough already wouldst have him whom the heavens and the heaven of heavens cannot contain who hath millions of glorious Angels waiting on his Majesty to wait on thee miserable worme alwayes I tell thee all the while thou art sinning his eyes behold thee his heart is incensed against thee and his hand can reach thee and avenge him on thee every moment How many hath he sent into hell that never tasted of his patience as thou hast done The angels sinned and were not waited upon one hour for their repentance yet how many years hath he endured thee with much long-suffering and still waiteth upon thee that he may be gracious unto thee Isa 30.18 The last oath thou didst swear he could have cursed and rotted thy tongue The last time that thou wentest prayerless to thy rest he could have sent thee to little ease to the place

joy at his right hand are pleasures for evermore Solus tues jucunditas totus mundus est amaritudine plenus Aug. in Psa 85. Psal 16. ult God is not wealth or honour or comfort or friends or earth or heaven but something infinitely beyond all these God is an immense Ocean of all excellencies and perfections without either banks or bottome God is virtually eminently every thing all things As in the Wars between Charles the fifth and Francis the first King of France when the Emperours Herald had bid defiance to the King Heil Geogra from Charles Emperour of Germanie King of Castile Leon Arragon and Naples Arch-duke of Austria with the rest of his Titles the King commanded the Heralds to return the challenge from Francis King of France commanding them to repeat France as many times as the other had Petty Earledomes in his stile intimating that one France was worth them all so truly one God answereth all things He is health and strength riches and relations joy and pleasures light and life and much more all the excellencies scattered and shadowed in the creature are united and reallized in the Creatour who is blessed for ever One God is worth more than all his creatures can sum up in millions of ages This is the gain of a Saint by death he shall gain the fruition of God He who hath lost God hath nothing more to lose he hath lost all the losse of God is hell 2 Thes 1.7 But he that hath gained God hath nothing more to gain He hath got all the gain of God is heaven It is worthy our observation that Job speaking of God Job 13.16 saith He shall be my salvation An Expositour observeth on that Text Job doth not say He shall giue me salvation but he shall be my salvation Car. in loc It more pleaseth a Saint that he enjoyeth God then that he enjoyeth salvation As nothing that a godly man giveth God will content him unlesse he give God himself so nothing which God giveth a godly man will satisfie him Fecisti nos proptert● inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te Aug. confes lib. 1. cap. 1. unlesse God giveth himself to him His voice is non tua sedte Domine Lord not thine but thee he is better pleased that God is his salvation then that he saveth him Whom have I in heaven but thee saith he There are Saints Angels Arch-Angels saith Musculus but in the presence of this glorious Sun those stars must vanish and disappeare What are Saints what are Angels without God and it 's true of things as well as persons what is the glory what the pleasures what the joys of heaven without God What 's all the robes and riches what 's all the crowns and comforts what 's all the delights the delicates the diadems of heaven without the God of heaven but as the Funeral-banquet for some eminent Prince where is large provision and great cost but no chear No it is God alone that is the centre to which the Saint moveth and in which he resteth O what happinesse shall the holy man have at death to be ever with God! If that Queen could say of Solomons attendants Happy are thy men happy are these thy servants which stand continually before thee and hear thy wisdome 1 King 10.8 how happy are they that dwell in Gods Mansion-house ever beholding his face and hearing his voice It is reported of Eudoxius that he was so extream desirous to be near the Sun that he might see it and know its nature that he profest so he might obtain his desire though but for one hour he would willingly be burn● up by it the next hour how much worth then is the sight and knowledge of this Sun of righteousnesse and what gainers are they by death that come thereby to see him as he is and to know him as they are known of him 1 Joh. 3.2 1 Cor. 13.12 But the Christian shall not barely enjoy God after death for that he doth in this life but he shall enjoy God fully Now the Saint enjoyeth a little of God and O how refreshing is it to his weary soul but then he shall have as much of God as his heart can wish or hold In this life there is a Communication of God answerable to the capacities of men and the fault is in us not in God that we receive no more of him on earth The ground is not in the Sun but in the narrownesse of our windowes that we partake no more of its light the cause is in the smallnesse of our vessels not in the well that we carry away no more of its water If our mouths were never so wide-opened God would fill them now But then the windowes of the soul shall be widened and the vessels of the heart enlarged and so fitted for and filled with a greater participation of God There is not the least complaint of want All the Patriarchs sacks are there filled with corn There Davids cup runneth over there the holy Ephesians are filled with all the fulnesse of God In that Fathers house there is bread enough and to spare for all his children There is given to all good measure pressed down shaken together and running over Luk. 6.38 We say there is no fishing like to the Sea because the Sea hath the greatest plenty and the vastest capacity there are fish enough to fill all our nets and lade all our ships I may more truly say there is no fruition like to the fruition of God he hath enough not only to supply all our indigencies and to satisfie all our necessities and desires but he can do abundantly for us above what we are able to ask or think Ephes 3.20 God hath enough to fill himself as boundless a being as he is surely then he hath enough to fill the limited soul of man that which can fill the Ocean may well fil a spoon Now a Christian is described by his hungring and thirsting his panting and breathing after a perfect conformity to God that thereby he may be prepared for perfect Communion with God but blessed are they which now thus hunger and thirst for then they shall be filled Matth. 5.6 Well 〈…〉 a good bait as the word used by our Saviour doth signifie He that drinketh of that water which God shall there give him shall thirst no more 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hoc proprie dicitur de armentis nam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 prati vocant gramen aut pabulum That God who filleth the bellies of his enemies on earth with the hidden treasures of common bounty will surely fil the souls of his children in heaven with the precious treasures of special mercy The soul that now sippeth of the water of life shall then drink a full draught out of the Rivers of ●ods pleasures The Christian who can now only taste God to be gracious shall then have a full meale when