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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.
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.
Labour to be rich in godliness; Grace alone is special bayl 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 Divels, can rob you of it. Take God in Christ for your Heaven, and you are happy in spight 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.
The Child may walk in that dark entry without fear, if he have but his Father by the hand; Though I walk in the Valley of the shadow of Death, I will fear none ill, for thou art with me. Death indeed is strong, it overcometh Principalities and Powers, but as strong as it is, it cannot separate God and the godly person. It may dissolve the natural union betwixt soul and body, but not the mystical union betwixt God and the soul; The Saints dye in the Lord, they sleep in Jesus.