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The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith, or, One cast for eternity…
The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith, or, One cast for eternity with the only way to throw it well : as also the gracious persons incomparable portion / by George Swinnock ...The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith, or, One cast for eternity with the only way to throw it vvell : as also the gracious persons incomparable portion / by George Swinnock ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1662
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Chapter 2: The Interpretation of the Text, and the Doctrine, That mans flesh will fail him.
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.
1They who take the expression in a bad sense, take it to be a confession of his former sin, and to have relation to the Combat, (mentioned in the beginning of the Psalm) between the flesh and the spirit, as if he had said. I was so surfeited with self conceitedness, that I presumed to arraign divine actions, at the bar of humane reason; and to judge the stick under Water crooked, by the eye of my sense, when indeed it was straight; but now I see that flesh is no fit Judge in matters of faith, that neither my flesh nor heart can determine rightly of Gods dispensations, nor hold out uprightly under Satan's temptations; for if God had not supported me, my flesh had utterly supplanted me. My flesh and my heart faileth me, but God is the strength of my heart. Flesh is sometime taken for corrupt nature, Gal. 5.13. First, because tis propagated by the flesh, John 3.6. Secondly, because tis executed by the flesh, Rom. 7.25. Thirdly, because corruption is nourished, strengthened, and increased by the flesh, 1 Joh. 2.16.
1They who take the expression in a bad sense, take it to be a confession of his former sin, and to have relation to the Combat, (mentioned in the beginning of the Psalm) between the flesh and the spirit, as if he had said. I was so surfeited with self conceitedness, that I presumed to araign divine actions, at the bar of humane reason; and to judge the stick under Water crooked, by the eye of my sense, when indeed it was streight; but now I see that flesh is no fit Judge in matters of faith, that neither my flesh nor heart can determine rightly of Gods dispensations, nor hold out uprightly under Satans temptations; for if God had not supported me, my flesh had utterly supplanted me. My flesh and my heart faileth me, but God is the strength of my heart. Flesh is sometime taken for corrupt nature, Gal. 5.13. First, because tis propagated by the flesh,