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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 10: God must needs be Mans happiness, because he is an Alsufficient Good.
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.
1. God is able to free a man from evil: 1the Greeks call an happy man [Greek or Hebrew], one that is not subject to death and miseries.
1. God is able to free a man from evil: 1the Greeks call an happy man 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, one that is not subject to death and miseries.
- 11 Able to f•ee the soul from evil.1 Able to f•ee the soul f•om evil.
That which is the happiness of man, must be able by its power to secure him against all perils; but creatures cannot afford this help; therefore cannot be our happiness. He that trusteth to second causes, is like him that being on the top of a tree, setteth his feet on rotten bough's, which will certainly break under him; or like the passenger who in windy stormy weather, runs to some tottering out-house, which falls upon him. But God is the almighty guard.
That which is the happiness of man, must be able by its power to secure him against all perills; but creatures cannot afford this help; therefore cannot be our happiness. He that trusteth to second causes, is like him that being on the top of a tree, setteth his feet on rotten bough's, which will certainly break under him; or like the passenger who in windy stormy weather, runs to some tottering out-house, which falls upon him. But God is the almighty guard.