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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
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CHAP. XIX. God an universal and eternal portion.
1Thirdly, God is a universal portion; God hath in himself eminently and infinitely all good things; and Creatures are bounded in their beings, and therefore in the comfort which they yield. Health answereth sickness, but it doth not answer poverty. Honour is an help against disgrace, but not against pain; Money is the most universal medicines: and therefore is said to answer all things, but as great a Monarch as it is, it can neither command ease in sickness, nor honours in disgrace, much less quiet a wounded spirit. At best Creatures are but particular beings, and so but particular blessings. Now man being a compound of many wants and ⟨p. 169⟩weaknesses, can never be happy till he find a salve for every sore; and a remedy which bears proportion as well to the number as nature of his maladies. Ahab though in his Ivory Palace, upon his Throne of glory, attended with his noble Lords, and swaying a large Sceptre, was miserable because the heavens were brass. Haman though he had the favour of the Prince, the adoration of the people, the sway of 127. Provinces, yet is discontented because he wanted Mordecai's knee. If the worlds darlings enjoy many good things, yet they (as Christ told the young man) always lack one thing which makes them at a loss.
1THirdly, God is a universal portion; God hath in himself eminently and infinitely all good things; and Creatures are bounded in their beings, and therefore in the comfort which they yeild. Health answereth sickness, but it doth not answer poverty. Honour is an help against disgrace, but not against pain; Money is the most universall medicines: and therefore is said to answer all things, but as great a Monarch as it is, it can neither command ease in sickness, nor honours in disgrace, much less quiet a wounded spirit. At best Creatures are but particular beings, and so but particular blessings. Now man being a compound of many wants and ⟨p. 169⟩