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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
3. For correction of manners; The sword of the Word pierceth the sinners conscience; like Christ to the woman of Samaria, It tells him all that ever he did, and makes him smite upon his thigh, and say, What have I done? Scripture is a glass which showeth him the spots that are in the face of his heart and life.
3. For correction of manners; The sword of the Word pierceth the sinners conscience; like Christ to the woman of Samaria, It tells him all that ever he did, and makes him smite upon his thigh, and say, What have I done? Scripture is a glass which sheweth him the spots that are in the face of his heart and life.
4. For instruction in righteousness. It is the way in which we should walk, the rule of our spiritual race: What is written on some Psalms, may be written on every Psalm and Chapter in the whole Bible, Maschil, or Psalm for instruction. Its precepts teach us what to follow, its prohibitions tell us what to forsake; Its promises are to allure us to sanctity, its threatenings to affright us from sin; the good example of the Saints speaketh as Christ to Peter, Follow thou me; the wicked actions and ends of sinners cry aloud, as Abner to Joab, Knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the end?
4. For instruction in righteousness. It is the way in which we should walk, the rule of our spiritual race: What is written on some Psalms, may be written on every Psalm and Chapter in the whole Bible, Maschil, or Psalm for instruction. Its precepts teach us what to follow, its prohibitions tell us what to forsake; Its promises are to allure us to sanctity, its threatnings to affright us from sin; the good example of the Saints speaketh as Christ to Peter, Follow thou me; the wicked actions and ends of sinners cry aloud, as Abner to Ioab, Knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the end?