A62040:592
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.
SECT. IV.
2Secondly, If thou wouldst exercise thy self to godliness in solitude, labour to spiritualize earthly things. I must say, this is one of the most excellent and enriching arts in Christianity; Though these occasional thoughts resemble lightning, as well in the suddenness of their journey, as the vastness of their way, being able to reach from one end of Heaven unto the other, yet such light gains, with quick returns, make an heavy purse.
2SEcondly, If thou wouldst exercise thy self to godliness in solitude, labour to spiritualize earthly things. I must say, this is one of the most excellent and enriching arts in Christianity; Though these occasional thoughts resemble lightning, as well in the suddenness of their journey, as the vastness of their way, being able to reach from one end of Heaven unto the other, yet such light gains, with quick returnes, make an heavy purse.
- 2In spiritualizing natural things.
He that hath learned this mystery, is the true Chemist, he leaves the dregs and lees of things, and extracts the substance and quintessence of them. He hath better then Midas Wish, he turns all he toucheth into better then gold. Many a great Scholar begs with rare notions of the nature of silver, and gold, and pearls, when some Merchants who never saw Mine, or Furnace, or read Book concerning them, hath his Coffers full of them. The Rabbis of the world, were they able like Solomon, to speak of all plants from the Cedar to the Hyssop; and of all Beasts and Fish, and Fowl, nay, and of all creatures