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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.
Dedication: To the Courteous Ms. Jane Swinnock, WIDOW OF Mr. Caleb Swinnock, LATE OF Maidstone Dece…
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.
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.
I hope there is a good work begun in you, which shall be finished at the day of Christ. But every one stande 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. Farewel, Farewel, Farewel, 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.
Labour to be rich in godliness; Grace alone is special bail against death; It is such wealth, as will be currant in the other World; lay up your treasure in Heaven, where neither Thief nor Moth, neither Men nor Devils, can rob you of it. Take God in Christ for your Heaven, and you are happy in spite of the World, Death and Hell. You know the living comfort of your dying Husband was, that though his flesh and heart failed him, yet God was the strength of his heart and his portion for ever. And it was a memorable speech of His, when some Friends came to him and commended the richness and magnificence of Hampton Court, newly trimmed and adorned for the reception ⟨image 6⟩of her Majesty; One drop of the blood of Christ, is more worth then all the World. I must tell you, there is no such Cordial in a day of Death, as this Covenant-Relation to the Lord of life.