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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.
Chapter 8: How a Christian may exercise himself to Godliness, on a Dying Bed.
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.
and this great gun playing, when he was before tired in defending, must needs shatter him in pieces. He may fitly be called the Wolf of the Evening (Jer. 5. 6.) that devoureth. This roaring Lyon walketh in the night to seek his prey. There have been few eminent Saints, but have found their Death-bed, a Bed of Thorns, in regard of temptations. Mr. Knox said, when he came to dye, In my life time, the Devil tempted me to despair, casting my sins in my teeth; but now in my sickness, ⟨p. 624⟩he tells me, I have been faithful in the Ministry, and so have merited Heaven; but blessed be God, who brought those Texts into my mind; Not I, but the grace of God in me; What hast thou that thou hast not received? The Israelites never met with so much opposition, as when they were to take possession of the Land of Canaan, then all the Kings of Canaan combined together, and came out and fought them. When Satan was to be cast out of the possessed person, and never to enter into him more, he rent him, and tore him, that the people thought he was dead.
and this great gun playing, when he was before tired in defending, must needs shatter him in peices. He may fitly be called the Wolf of the Evening (Jer. 5. 6.) that devoureth. This roaring Lyon walketh in the night to seek his prey. There have been few eminent Saints, but have found their Death-bed, a Bed of Thorns, in regard of temptations. Mr. Knox said, when he came to dye, In my life time, the Devil tempted me to despair, casting my sins in my teeth; but now in my sickness, ⟨p. 624⟩he tells me, I have been faithful in the Ministery, and so have merited Heaven; but blessed be God, who brought those Texts into my mind; Not I, but the grace of God in me; What hast thou that thou hast not received? The Israelites never met with so much opposition, as when they were to take possession of the Land of Canaan, then all the Kings of Canaan combined together, and came out and fought them. When Satan was to be cast out of the possessed person, and never to enter into him more, he rent him, and tore him, that the people thought he was dead.