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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 7: What is requisite to preparation for Death. A change of state, and a change of nature,…
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.
I shall acquaint thee with the means and way, how thou mayst dye well. Having finished what is persuasive.
I shall acquaint thee with the means and way, how thou mayst dye well. Having finished what is perswasive.
Secondly, I shall offer thee somewhat that is ⟨p. 61⟩directive. And know Reader further, that there is no other medicine in the World, which can possibly cure thy wounded dying soul, but that which I have from God to prescribe thee; throw away this, or neglect the rules in applying it to thy sores, or advise with flattering mountebanks, and thy lamentable condition will be irrecoverable, thy dreadful estate will be desperate. I shall not like an Empiric try new tricks or remedies, on thy bleeding gasping soul, but give thee that receipt (consisting but of two ingredients) which the great Physician hath left in Writing under his own hand, and which thousands have experienced to be effectual for their cure, whose souls are made thereby at this hour (as his body in the Gospel) every whit whole.
Secondly, I shall offer thee somewhat that is ⟨p. 61⟩directive. And know Reader further, that there is no other medicine in the World, which can possibly cure thy wounded dying soul, but that which I have from God to prescribe thee; throw away this, or neglect the rules in applying it to thy sores, or advise with flattering mountebanks, and thy lamentable condition will be irrecoverable, thy dreadful estate will be desperate. I shall not like an Emperick try new tricks or remedies, on thy bleeding gasping soul, but give thee that receipt (consisting but of two ingredients) which the great Physician hath left in Writing under his own hand, and which thousands have experienced to be effectual for their cure, whose souls are made thereby at this hour (as his body in the Gospel) every whit whole.