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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 XX. Comfort to such as have God for their portion.
Fourthly, The Doctrine may be useful by way of Consolation: It speaketh much comfort to every true Christian; God is thy portion; thy portion is not in toys and trifles, in narrow limited Creatures, but in the blessed boundless God: He cannot be poor who hath my Lord Major to his Friend, much less he that hath God to his portion: A portion so precious and perfect, that none of the greatest Arithmeticians ever undertook to compute its worth, as knowing it impossible; a portion so permanent, that neither death, nor life, nor the world, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, can part thee from it. This cordial may enliven thee in a dying estate. None can part thee and thy portion. ⟨p. 179⟩The winter may freeze the ponds, but not the Ocean. All other portions may be frozen and useless in hard weather, but this portion is ever full and filling. Hagar, when her bottle of water was spent, wept because she did not see the fountain that was so near her. The absence of the creatures need not make thee mourn, who hast the presence of the Creator.
FOurthly, The Doctrine may be useful by way of Consolation: It speaketh much comfort to every true Christian; God is thy portion; thy portion is not in toyes and trifles, in narrow limited Creatures, but in the blessed boundless God: He cannot be poor who hath my Lord Maior to his Friend, much lesse he that hath God to his portion: A portion so precious and perfect, that none of the greatest Arithmeticians ever undertook to compute its worth, as knowing it impossible; a portion so permanent, that neither death, nor life, nor the world, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, can part thee from it. This cordial may enliven thee in a dying estate. None can part thee and thy portion. ⟨p. 179⟩