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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Secondly, That you choose the good part that shall never be taken from you. Mans heart will be sixth on somewhat as its hope, and happiness. God therefore puts out our Candles, takes away Relations, that we may look up to the Sun and esteem him our chiefest portion. When we are Digging and Delving in the Earth to find out content, and comfort, he sendeth damps, purposely to make us call to be drawn upward. Till the Prodigal met with a Famine, he regarded not ⟨image 6⟩his Father. If the Waters be abated, the Dove is apt to wander and defile her self, but when they cover the face of the earth, and allow her no rest, then she returneth to the Ark.

Secondly, That you chuse the good part that shall never be taken from you. Mans heart will be fixt on somewhat as its hope, and happiness. God therefore puts out our Candles, takes away Relations, that we may look up to the Sun and esteem him our chiefest portion. When we are Digging and Delving in the Earth to find out content, and comfort, he sendeth damps, purposely to make us call to be drawn upward. Till the Prodigal met with a Famine, he regarded not ⟨image 6⟩his Father. If the Waters be abated, the Dove is apt to wander and defile her self, but when they cover the face of the earth, and allow her no rest, then she returneth to the Ark.

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I hope there is a good work begun in you, which shall be finished at the day of Christ. But every one stand h or falleth to their own Master. Get Scripture on your side, and you are safe for ever. The Romans when they parted from the bones of their Dead friends (for they burnt them,) took their leave in such language, Vale, Vale, Vale, Noste ordine quo natura permiserit sequemur. Farewell, Farewell, Farewell, We shall follow thee in the time, and order, which nature alloweth us. You may say of your Husband, as David of his Child, I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me. Prepare therefore for your dying hour.

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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

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Westminster Assembly24

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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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