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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 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⟩searching, trying day, the day of Death will be. Ah how holy would you live? how exactly would you walk? Were death at your doors, at your tables, in your gardens, in your shops, present before your eyes in all your projects and pleasures, how would it deaden your hearts, to these sublunary vanities, and quicken your affections to celestial felicities?
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 Emperour 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⟩searching, trying day, the day of Death will be. Ah how holy would you live? how exactly would you walk? Were death at your doors, at your tables, in your gardens, in your shops, present before your eyes in all your projects and pleasures, how would it deaden your hearts, to these sublunary vanities, and quicken your affections to celestial felicities?