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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.
Some observe that the Egyptians mourned longer (for they mourned 70 days) for old Jacobs death, then Joseph his own Son; and the reason is this, because they had hopes only in this life, when Joseph knew that as his fathers body was carried to the earthly, so his Soul was translated to the heavenly Canaan. I would not have you ignorant concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not even as others that have no hope. 1 Thes. 4.12.
Some observe that the Egyptians mourned longer (for they mourned 70 dayes) for old Jacobs death, then Joseph his own Son; and the reason is this, because they had hopes only in this life, when Joseph knew that as his fathers body was carried to the earthly, so his Soul was translated to the heavenly Canaan. I would not have you ignorant concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not even as others that have no hope. 1 Thes. 4.12.
As they are happy without us, for God is their portion; so we are happy without them. We have our God still; that stormy wind which blew out our candles, did not extinguish our Sun; Our Friend when on his or her death-bed, might bespeak us, as Jacob his Sons. I die but God shall visit you, I go from you, but God shall abide with you. ⟨p. 182⟩I leave you, but God will find you, he will never leave you nor forsake you. Reader, If God live, though thy friends dye, I hope thou art not lost, thou art not undone. May not God say to thee, when thou art pining and whining for the death of thy relations or friends, as if thou wert eternally miserable, as Elkanah to Hannah, Am not I better to thee then ten Sons? Am not I better to thee then ten Husbands, then ten Wives, then ten thousand worlds? O think of it and take comfort in it.
As they are happy without us, for God is their portion; so we are happy without them. We have our God still; that stormy wind which blew out our candles, did not extinguish our Sun; Our Friend when on his or her death-bed, might bespeak us, as Jacob his Sonnes. I die but God shall visit you, I go from you, but God shall abide with you.