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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
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Chapter 7: What is requisite to preparation for Death. A change of state, and a change of nature,…
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Pride, or an Ambitious desire of self sufficiency, and self subsistence, was the stone at which man at first stumbled, and fell into the bottomless pit of matchless misery, it was the fatal Knife, which cut the throat of his glorious hopes and happiness; the wise God therefore like a tender Father in mans recovery, takes special care to lay these Weapons out of the Children's way, by which they had wrought themselves such woe. Hence it is that he hath chosen those two graces to make us happy, and carry us to himself, which speak us to be most beggarly, and carry us most out of our selves. Faith and Repentance. Faith teacheth us to deny our selves, as utterly weak, and Repentance causing us to abhor our selves, as altogether unworthy. Repentance discovereth our nakedness, and obnoxiousness, thereby to shame and suffering; and Faith telleth that our own rags ⟨p. 62⟩come infinitely short of hiding it, and that we must fetch our garments out of another's Wardrobe. The whole Globe of Christianity divideth it self into these two Hemispheres. As the bodily life consisteth in natural heat, and radical moisture, so the life of the soul in Faith and Repentance.
Pride, or an Ambitious desire of self sufficiency, and self subsistance, was the stone at which man at first stumbled, and fell into the bottomless pit of matchless misery, it was the fatal Knife, which cut the throat of his glorious hopes and happiness; the wise God therefore like a tender Father in mans recovery, takes special care to lay these Weapons out of the Childrens way, by which they had wrought themselves such wo. Hence it is that he hath chosen those two graces to make us happy, and carry us to himself, which speak us to be most beggerly, and carry us most out of our selves. Faith and Repentance. Faith teacheth us to deny our selves, as utterly weak, and Repentance causing us to abhor our selves, as altogether unworthy. Repentance discovereth our nakedness, and obnoxiousness, thereby to shame and suffering; and Faith telleth that our own rags ⟨p. 62⟩come infinitely short of hiding it, and that we must fetch our garments out of anothers Wardrobe. The whole Globe of Christianity divideth it self into these two Hemispheres. As the bodily life consisteth in natural heat, and radical moysture, so the life of the soul in Faith and Repentance.