The works of George Swinnock, M.A

Thou art always attended with a rich train of all sorts of comforts; The good tidings thou bringest, and great blessings thou conveyest where ever thou comest, may well make thee welcome. I may well say un•o thee, beholding the bracelets and ear-rings, wherewith thou adornest the Spouse of the true Isaac, as Laban to Abraham's servant; Come in thou blessed of the Lord, why standest thou without, I have prepared lodging for thee?

Thou art always attended with a rich train of all sorts of comforts; The good tidings thou bringest, and great blessings thou conveyest where ever thou comest, may well make thee welcome. I may well say un•o thee, beholding the bracelets and ear-rings, wherewith thou adornest the Spouse of the true Isaac, as Laban to Abrahams servant; Come in thou blessed of the Lord, why standest thou without, I have prepared lodging for thee?

If I am bound to bless my God for the natural lights which he hath made, the greater to rule the day, and the lesser to rule the night, because thereby it appears that his mercy endureth for ever, Psa. 136. 7, 8, 9. How much am I bound to bless him for the spiritual light of his word, that true, that marvellous light which shineth in a dark place, till the eternal day dawn! O what mercy, what mercy enduring for ever is there in every leaf, in every verse, in every line of that sacred Book! If Regeneration be a mercy, to be partaker of the divine nature, the stamping the lovely Image of the glorious God upon thee, then the word is a mercy, for that is the seal in the hand of the Spirit, which imprinteth it on thee, James 1. 18. Is faith a mercy, that shield of the soul, whereby it quencheth the fiery darts of the Devil, that Ladder by which the soul mounteth to Heaven, and ⟨p. 428⟩converseth daily with its Lord and Master? then the word is a mercy, for faith comes by hearing, the word is the door of faith,