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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.
2. It is powerful for conversion; It is able to change the nature, and turn an heart of stone, into an heart of flesh; It hath many a time enlightened dark minds to see the things which they never saw, enlivened dead souls, and enabled them to stand up from the dead. The law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul; It hath dispossessed the strong man, cast him out of his strong holds, wherein he had reigned many years, and subdued the soul to another Lord and Sovereign. What hath been said of God, may be said of the Word in the hand of the Spirit; Who ever resisted its will? How powerful is that word which can make ⟨p. 411⟩the proudest creature that scorned former reproofs and precepts, threatenings and judgements, to cry and weep bitterly like a child under the rod; that can create the new creature, the choicest of Gods works! By the word of the Lord are the (new) Heavens (wherein dwelleth righteousness) made, and all the (glorious) host thereof, (of sparkling graces) by the breath of his mouth.
2. It is powerful for conversion; It is able to change the nature, and turn an heart of stone, into an heart of flesh; It hath many a time inlightned dark minds to see the things which they never saw, enlivened dead souls, and enabled them to stand up from the dead. The law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul; It hath dispossessed the strong man, cast him out of his strong holds, wherein he had raigned many years, and subdued the soul to another Lord and Soveraign. What hath been said of God, may be said of the Word in the hand of the Spirit; Who ever resisted its will? How powerful is that word which can make ⟨p. 411⟩the proudest creature that scorned former reproofs and precepts, threatnings and judgements, to cry and weep bitterly like a child under the rod; that can create the new creature, the choicest of Gods works! By the word of the Lord are the (new) Heavens (wherein dwelleth righteousness) made, and all the (glorious) host thereof, (of sparkling graces) by the breath of his mouth.