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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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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.
Iphicrates the Athenian General in times of peace entrenched his Army, ordered his outworks, set his watch, kept his guards, and observed all Martial Discipline, as if he had been in the height and heat of War. And being asked the reason by one of his Familiars, and what he feared; He answered to be surprised, and least it should so fall out, that he should be constrained to say, I thought not on it. O that we were as wise, who are Listed under the Captain of our Salvation, for that War wherein there is no discharge. Beloved friends, Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour when the Son of man cometh. Mat. 25.13.
Iphicrates the Athenian General in times of peace entrencht his Army, ordered his outworks, set his watch, kept his guards, and observed all Martial Discipline, as if he had been in the height and heat of War. And being asked the reason by one of his Familiars, and what he feared; He answered to be surprised, and least it should so fall out, that he should be constrained to say, I thought not on it. O that we were as wise, who are Listed under the Captain of our Salvation, for that War wherein there is no discharge. Beloved friends, Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour when the Son of man cometh. Mat. 25.13.
The Brachmanni had their Graves before their doors. The Sybarites at Banquets had a Deaths-head delivered from hand to hand by every guest at the Table. The Emperor Ferdinand, had one appointed at certain times to salute him with Vive memor Lethi Ferdinand. O Ferdinand, live as one that is mindful he must dye. Joseph of Arimathea had his Tomb in his Garden. When the blessed Saviour was in his glorious transfiguration in Company with those heavenly Courtiers, 1they spake to him of his decease; Could you think but one quarter of an hour every day, what a ⟨image 11⟩