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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.
They who take the words in a good sense, do not make them look back so far as to the beginning of the Psalm, but only to the Neighbour verse. The Prophet (say they) having passionately sixth his heart on God as the most amiable object in Heaven and earth, (v. 25.) was transported therewith so excessively, and carried out in holy sallies, after ⟨p. 9⟩him so vehemently, that he was ready to sink and swoon away; his spirits were ready to expire through the exuberance of his love to, and longings after the blessed God. The weak cask of his body was ready to break, and not able to hold that strong and spiritual wine; My flesh and my heart faileth me. I am so ravished with delight in, and so enlarged in desires after this infinitely beautiful object, that there is no more spirit in me; I am sick, yea if God should not appear, the strength of my heart, should die for love.
They who take the words in a good sense, do not make them look back so far as to the beginning of the Psalm, but onely to the Neighbour verse. The Prophet (say they) having passionately fixt his heart on God as the most amiable object in Heaven and earth, (v. 25.) was transported therewith so excessively, and carried out in holy sallies, after ⟨p. 9⟩him so vehemently, that he was ready to sink and swoon away; his spirits were ready to expire through the exuberancy of his love to, and longings after the blessed God. The weak cask of his body was ready to break, and not able to hold that strong and spiritual wine; My flesh and my heart faileth me. I am so ravished with delight in, and so enlarged in desires after this infinitely beautiful object, that there is no more spirit in me; I am sick, yea if God should not appear, the strength of my heart, should die for love.
2. They who expound the words in a civil sense, (as I may say) affirm the sentence to refer to the Psalmist sufferings.