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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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Why, Job in his own thoughts was going to appear before his Judge, and he durst not venture without a pardon in his hand, for now shall I sleep in the dust. The child did not dare to go to bed at night till he had asked his Father Blessing, and begged and obtained forgiveness of his disobedience in the day.
Why, Job in his own thoughts was going to appear before his Judge, and he durst not venture without a pardon in his hand, for now shall I sleep in the dust. The child did not dare to go to bed at night till he had asked his Father Blessing, and begd and obtained forgiveness of his disobedience in the day.
Nothing in the whole creation can pacify the conscience, awakened with the guilt of sin, and frighted with the fear of death, but a pardon in the blood of this Covenant, for want of this it was that the Heathen were either desperate or doubtful in their deaths; and their Orator ingeniously confesseth, that notwithstanding all the Medicines they could gather out of their own Gardens, the Disease was still too strong for the Remedy. But a plaster spread with the blood of Christ, and applied by faith to the sore, is a sovereign and certain cure. Faith ⟨p. 68⟩in Christ is such a Shield, that under its protection, a Christian may stand in the evil day of Death, keep his ground and secure himself from all the shot which the Law, Satan, or conscience can make against him, I am the resurrection and the life, He that liveth and believeth in me shall live though he dye, Joh. 11.
Nothing in the whole creation can pacifie the conscience, awakened with the guilt of sin, and frighted with the fear of death, but a pardon in the blood of this Covenant, for want of this it was that the Heathen were either desperate or doubtfull in their deaths; and their Orator ingeniously confesseth, that notwithstanding all the Medicines they could gather out of their own Gardens, the Disease was still too strong for the Remedy. But a plaister spread with the blood of Christ, and applied by faith to the sore, is a soveraign and certain cure. Faith