The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith, or, One cast for eternity…

Name: The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith, or, One cast for eternity…
Author: George Swinnock

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George Swinnock 1627–1673London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1662

[40], 186, [6] p. · 60k words · Wing S6275 · ESTC R15350

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Chapter 3: The Reasons of the Doctrine, Mans Corruptibility, Gods fidelity, and Mans Apostasy from…Chapter 3: The Reasons of the Doctrine, Mans Corruptibility, Gods fidelity, and Mans Apostacy from…

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God hath also engaged to bestow on the members of Christ, an incomparable and unchangeable Crown; It is your Fathers pleasure to give you a Kingdom; but Death is the young Prophet that anointeth them to it, and giveth them actual possession of it. They must put off their rags of mortality, that they may put on their robes of glory, It is in the night of Death that Saints go to their blessed and eternal rest. The corn must first die before it can spring up fresh and green; Israel must die in Egypt before he can be carried into Canaan. There is no entrance into Paradise but under ⟨p. 19⟩the flaming sword of this Angel Death, that standeth at the gate. The soul must be delivered out of the prison of the body, that it may enjoy the glorious liberty of the sons of God. This bird of Paradise will never sing merrily, nor warble out the praises of its Maker in a perfect manner, till it be freed from this cage.

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The sinner dieth, that according to Gods word he might receive the bitter fruits of his evil ways. Death is to him as the gate through which condemned and piacular persons pass to their deserved destruction. The Saint dieth that according to Gods promise he may enjoy the purchased possession. Death to him, is as the dirty lane through which Chrysostom passed to a feast, a dark short way through which he goeth to the marriage Supper of the Lamb. His body is mortal, that his sins and sufferings might not be immortal.

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The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith, or, One cast for eternity…

CHAP. IIII. First Use, discovering the folly of them that mind the flesh chiefly.

CHAP. IIII. First Ʋse, discovering the folly of them that mind the flesh chiefly.

CHAP. V. Second USE. An Exhortation to sinners to prepare for death, with three quickening motives. Death will come certainly; it may come suddenly: When it comes twill be too late to prepare.

CHAP. V. Second USE. An Exhortation to sinners to prepare for death, with three quickenning motives. Death will come certainly; it may come suddenly: When it comes twill be too late to prepare.

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CHAP. IIII. First Use, discovering the folly of them that mind the flesh chiefly.

CHAP. IIII. First Ʋse, discovering the folly of them that mind the flesh chiefly.

CHAP. V. Second USE. An Exhortation to sinners to prepare for death, with three quickening motives. Death will come certainly; it may come suddenly: When it comes twill be too late to prepare.

CHAP. V. Second USE. An Exhortation to sinners to prepare for death, with three quickenning motives. Death will come certainly; it may come suddenly: When it comes twill be too late to prepare.