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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 Apostle makes a challenge, which men nor devils could never accept or take up; Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or sword? nay in all these things we are more then conquerors through him that loves us, Rom. 8.35, 36, 37, 38. Nay, at death thy portion would swim out with thee in that shipwreck: death, which parts all other portions from men, will give thee full possession of thine: Then, and not till then, thou shouldst know what it is worth; yea even at the great day, the fire which shall burn up ⟨p. 174⟩the world, shall not so much as singe thy portion; thou mightst stand upon its ruins and sing, I have lost nothing, I have my portion, my inheritance, my happiness, my God still.
The Apostle makes a challenge, which men nor devils could never accept or take up; Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or sword? nay in all these things we are more then conquerours through him that loves us, Rom. 8.35, 36, 37, 38. Nay, at death thy portion would swim out with thee in that shipwrack: death, which parts all other portions from men, will give thee full possession of thine: Then, and not till then, thou shouldst know what it is worth; yea even at the great day, the fire which shall burn up ⟨p. 174⟩the world, shall not so much as singe thy portion; thou mightst stand upon its ruines and sing, I have lost nothing, I have my portion, my inheritance, my happiness, my God still.
Other portions, like summer-fruit, are soon ripe, and soon rotten; but this portion, like winter fruit, though it be longer before the whole be gathered, yet it will continue. Gold and silver, in which other mens portion lieth, are corruptible; but thy portion, like the body of Christ, shall never see corruption.