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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.
Its reported of the Birds of Norway, 1that they fly faster then the Birds of other Countries, not because they have greater nimbleness of wing, but by a natural instinct, they knowing the day in their Climate to be very short (not above three hours long, say some) make the more hast to their Nests. Your time is little, your accounts will be great, your work must be done now or never. O work the work of him that sent you into the World, while it is day, for the night cometh when no man can work, Joh. 9.4.
Its reported of the Birds of Norwey, 1that they flye faster then the Birds of other Countries, not because they have greater nimbleness of wing, but by a natural instinct, they knowing the day in their Climate to be very short (not above three hours long, say some) make the more hast to their Nests. Your time is little, your accounts will be great, your work must be done now or never. O work the work of him that sent you into the World, while it is day, for the night cometh when no man can work, Joh. 9.4.
- 1O Laus. Mag. Hist. Septentrion.
I am bound to tell you, that God hath committed many Talents into the hands of several amongst you, ye are higher in place and power, ye have more opportunities then others to serve the interest and honour of Christ, and therefore God expecteth that you should do more for him then others. Indulge the Drunkenness, and Swearing, and uncleanness, and Sabbath breaking of others, least ⟨image 12⟩ye should be counted busy-bodies, or precise persons, and you destroy both your own and their souls. There is no such cruelty to mens souls, as clemency to their sins. He loves his friend best, who hates his lusts most. Besides, the wrong your sinful compliance doth to others, whilst ye bear the Sword, as Women wear their Artificial teeth, for show only, not for service, ye treasure up wrath on your own heads against the day of death, for as a reverend Divine now with God said truly. Nothing more sads the heart when one comes to die, then his neglect of those opportunities, which Gods providence or his own place, have put into his hand of doing or receiving good. Neither is there a sharper Corrosive, then the reflection upon those days and times, which have passed over him, male, aliud, nihil, agentem.