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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.
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.
1First, God is a satisfying portion. The things of this world may surfeit a man, but they can never satisfy him. Most men have too much, but no man hath enough: As ships they have that burden which sinks them, when they have room to hold more. He that loveth silver is not satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth gold with increase, Eccles. 1. Worldlings are like the Parthians, the more they drink, the more they thirst. As the melancholy Chemist, they work eagerly to find the Philosophers stone, rest and happiness in it, though they have experience of its vanity, and it hath already brought them to beggary. The world cannot satisfy the senses, much less the soul: The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing.
1FIrst, God is a satisfying portion. The things of this vvorld may surfet a man, but they can never satisfie him. Most men have too much, but no man hath enough: As ships they have that burden vvhich sinks them, vvhen they have room to hold more. He that loveth silver is not satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth gold with increase, Eccles. 1. Worldlings are like the Parthians, the more they drink, the more they thirst. As the melancholy Chymist, they vvork eagerly to find the Philosophers stone, rest and happiness in it, though they have experience of its vanity, and it hath already brought them to beggary. The world cannot satisfie the senses, much lesse the soul: The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing.
- 1Motives to choose God for our portion. God is satisfying.Motives to choose God for our port•on. God is satisfying.
As the Apes in the story, finding a Glowworm in a frosty night, took it for a spark of fire, gathered some sticks, and leaped on it, expecting to be warmed by it, but all in vain: so men think to find warmth and satisfaction in creatures, but they are as the clothes to David, when stricken in years, (though covered