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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.
The World is like sharp sauce which doth not fill, but provoke the stomach to call for more; the voice of those guests whom it makes most welcome, is like the daughters of the horseleech, Give, Give, but the infinite God like solid food doth satisfy the soul fully. (In my Fathers house is bread enough) and causeth it to cry out, I have enough.
Secondly, God is a sanctifying ennobling Portion. 1The World cannot advance the Soul in the least; things of the World are fitly compared to shadows; for be thy shadow never so long, thy body is not the longer for it; so be thy estate never so great, thy soul is not the better for it. A great letter makes no more to the signification of a word then the smallest. Men in high places are the same men (no real worth being thereby added to them) that they are in low ones.
Secondly, God is a sanctifying ennobling Portion. 1The World cannot advance the Soul in the least; things of the World are fitly compared to shadows; for be thy shadow never so long, thy body is not the longer for it; so be thy estate never so great, thy soul is not the better for it. A great letter makes no more to the signification of a word then the smallest. Men in high places are the same men (no reall worth being thereby added to them) that they are in low ones.
- 12 God is a sanctifying portion.
Nay, its too too visible, that men are the worse for their earthly portions. If some had not been so wealthy, they had not been so wicked. Most of the Worlds favourites like aguish stomachs are fuller of appetite then digestion; they eat more then they can concoct, and thereby cause diseases; nay by feeding on this trash of earth, their stomachs are taken off from substantial food, the bread of Heaven. The Soldiers of Hannibal were effeminated, and made unfit for service by their pleasures at Capua. Damps arising out of the earth, have stifled many a Soul.