A62040:1184
The works of George Swinnock, M.A
The works of George Swinnock, M.A. containing these several treatises ...
London: printed by J.B. for Tho. Parkhurst, 1665
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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.
They who know God most, love him most, and fear him most, and trust him most. It is life (spiritual, and the seed of life) eternal, to know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent, Joh. 17. 3. All godliness, all grace, is seminally in the knowledge of God, and floweth from it. They who with open face behold the Lord, though but as in a glass, are changed into his image, from glory to glory; from one degree of grace to another, • Cor. 3. 18.
They who know God most, love him most, and fear him most, and trust him most. It is life (spi••tual, and the seed of life) eternal, to know thee the onely true God, and Iesus Christ whom thou hast sent, Joh. 17. 3. All godliness, all grace, is seminally in the knowledge of God, and floweth from it. They who with open face behold the Lord, though but as in a glass, are changed into his image, from glory to glory; from one degree of grace to another, • Cor. 3. 18.
They who know the infiniteness, and immensity of his being, cannot but despise all things for him, esteem all things as nothing to him, as nothing without him, look on the whole creation, as less then nothing in comparison of him. Ah what admiring, reverent thoughts of that being of beings, of him whose name is, I am, have they who launch a little (for 'tis but a little that they can here) into this Ocean! All Nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less then nothing and vanity; they canno• but desire and labour to enjoy so boundless a portion.
They who know the infiniteness, and immensity of his being, cannot but despise all things for him, esteem all things as nothing to him, as nothing without him, look on the whole creation, as less then nothing in comparison of him. Ah what admiring, reverent thoughts of that being of beings, of him whose name is, I am, have they who lanch a little (for 'tis but a little that they can here) into this Ocean! All Nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less then nothing and vanity; they canno but desire and labour to enjoy so boundless a portion.