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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.
Others please themselves in the thoughts of sinful sports, or cheats, or unclean acts, and sit brooding on such Cockatrice eggs with great delight. It is their meat and drink to roll those sugared-plums under their tongues. Though they cannot act sin outwardly, for want of strength of body, or a fit opportunity, yet they act sin inwardly with great love and complacency. As Players in a Comedy, they act their parts in private, in order to a more exact performance of them in public.
Others please themselves in the thoughts of sinful sports, or cheats, or unclean acts, and sit brooding on such Cockatrice eggs with great delight. It is their meat and drink to roul those sugard-plums under their tongues. Though they cannot act sin outwardly, for want of strength of body, or a fit opportunity, yet they act sin inwardly with great love and complacency. As Players in a Comedy, they act their parts in private, in order to a more exact performance of them in publique.
Others entertain themselves with needless and useless thoughts, such as tend neither to the informing the mind, nor reforming the heart or life: Like vagrants, a man meets with these in every place, but can neither tell whence they come, nor whither they go; they have neither a good cause, nor do they produce any good effect. Such thoughts might be in a Davids heart, but they were the object of his hate, Psa. 119. 103. I hate vain thoughts; The best Christians heart here, is like Solomons ships, which brought home, not only Gold and Silver, but also Apes and Peacocks; it hath not only spiritual and heavenly, but also vain and foolish thoughts; But these latter are there as a disease, or poison in the body, the object of his grief and abhorrency, not of his love and complacency.
Others entertain themselves with needless and useless thoughts, such as tend neither to the informing the mind, nor reforming the heart or life: Like vagrants, a man meets with these in every place, but can neither tell whence they come, nor whither they go; they have neither a good cause, nor do they produce any good effect. Such thoughts might be in a Davids heart, but they were the object of his hate,