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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Dedication: To the Courteous Ms. Jane Swinnock, WIDOW OF Mr. Caleb Swinnock, LATE OF Maidstone Dece…

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First, That your affections be taken off from Earthly possessions; Dying Relations, call for dying affections. When Israel doted on Egypt as a palace, God made it an Iron furnace to wean them from it, and to make them weary of it. The creature is our Idol by nature, we bow down the knees of our souls to it, and Worship it; but infinite Wisdom makes it our grief, that it may not be our God. When Children fare well abroad, they are mindless of home; but when abused by strangers, they hasten to their Parents. The World is therefore a Purgatory, that it might not be our Paradise. As soon as Laban frowned on Jacob, he talks of returning to his Fathers House. Every rout the World puts us to, sounds a retreat to our affections, and calls off our heart from the eager pursuit of these withering vanities. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not, Prov. 23.5. much less thine heart.

First, That your affections be taken off from Earthly possessions; Dying Relations, call for dying affections. When Israel doted on Egypt as a pallace, God made it an Iron furnace to wean them from it, and to make them weary of it. The creature is our Idol by nature, we bow down the knees of our souls to it, and Worship it; but infinite Wisdom makes it our grief, that it may not be our God. When Children fare well abroad, they are mindless of home; but when abused by strangers, they hasten to their Parents. The World is therefore a Purgatory, that it might not be our Paradice. As soon as Laban frowned on Jacob, he talks of returning to his Fathers House. Every rout the World puts us to, sounds a retreat to our affections, and calls off our heart from the eager pursuit of these withering vanities. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not, Prov. 23.5. much less thine heart.

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I have read of a young Hermit, who being passionately in love with a young Lady, could not by any Art suppress the fury and violence of that flame, till at last being told that she was dead, and had been buried about fourteen days, he went secretly to her Vault, and with the skirt of his Manle, wiped the moisture from

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

TO THE Right Worshipful, THE Mayor, with the Recorder, Jurats, Common Council, and the rest of the Inhabitants of (his Native Town) Maidstone in Kent.

TO THE Right VVorshipful, THE Mayor, with the Recorder, Jurats, Common Council, and the rest of the Inhabitants of (his Native Town) Maidstone in Kent.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

TO THE Right Worshipful, THE Mayor, with the Recorder, Jurats, Common Council, and the rest of the Inhabitants of (his Native Town) Maidstone in Kent.

TO THE Right VVorshipful, THE Mayor, with the Recorder, Jurats, Common Council, and the rest of the Inhabitants of (his Native Town) Maidstone in Kent.

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