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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 Christian is [Greek or Hebrew] a man of like passions, only he acteth from higher principles, and affecteth for holier purposes. Religion doth not break the string of natural affection, but wind it up to such a pitch, as may make its strokes more true, and its sound more melodious. Nehemiah was sad and pensive, when the City of his Father was solitary, Nehem. 2.3. The Jews were disconsolate when their native Country lay desolate, Psa. 137, beginning. Paul could wish himself parted from Christ, that his Kindred and Countrymen might be united to Christ, Rom. 9.3. Greg. Nazianzen and Hierom report that the Jews to this day come yearly to the place where Jerusalem the City of their Fathers stood (which was destroyed by Titus and Adrian) and upon the day of the destruction of it, weep over it.
The Christian is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 a man of like passions, onely he acteth from higher principles, and affecteth for holier purposes. Religion doth not break the string of natural affection, but wind it up to such a pitch, as may make its stroaks more true, and its sound more melodious. Nehemiah was sad and pensive, when the City of his Father was solitary, Nehem. 2.3. The Jews were disconsolate when their native Country lay desolate, Psa. 137, beginning. Paul could wish himself parted from Christ, that his Kindred and Countrymen might be united to Christ, Rom. 9.3. Greg. Nazianzen and Hierom report that the Jews to this day come yearly to the place where Jerusalem the City of their Fathers stood (which was destroyed by Titus and Adrian) and upon the day of the destruction of it, weep over it.