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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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Its Chronicled of Philip the third, King of Spain, that though he never committed gross sin,1 all his life time, yet when he came to dye, he screeched out dreadfully, O that I had never reigned, O that I had never been King, for then I should not have now to Answer for my neglect of doing the good I might, and my not hindering the evil I ought in my Government. Sirs, (I beseech you give me leave to be faithful to you) Will it not be a dreadful time with you, when you are tumbling on your dying beds, and near your eternity, if conscience should fly in your faces for your falseness and unfaithfulness in your places, and make you cry out; O that I had never been Mayor of Maidstone; O that I had never been Justice; O that I had never been Jurat, for then I should not have now to Answer before the dreadful tribunal of a righteous God, for all the Oaths, Fornications, Profanation of the Lord• ⟨image 12⟩day, and other evils which I might have hindered, and did not, and for all the good which I might (by my holy pattern, and encouraging others in piety) have done, and would not. Alas ye cannot imagine the dreadfulness of such a mans condition on such a day. Therefore now be Terrors to evil doers, and encouragements to them that do well, if ye would find comfort then; for as in Philosophy; so in Divinity. They who mind not the premises, make but mad, but sad conclusions.
Its Cronicled of Philip the third, King of Spain, that though he never committed gross sin,1 all his life time, yet when he came to dye, he screeched out dreadfully, O that I had never raigned, O that I had never been King, for then I should not have now to Answer for my neglect of doing the good I might, and my not hindering the evil I ought in my Government. Sirs, (I beseech you give me leave to be faithful to you) Will it not be a dreadful time with you, when you are tumbling on your dying beds, and neer your eternity, if conscience should flye in your faces for your falseness and unfaithfulness in your places, and make you cry out; O that I had never been Mayor of Maidstone; O that I had never been Justice; O that I had never been Jurat, for then I should not have now to Answer before the dreadful tribunal of a righteous God, for all the Oaths, Fornications, Prophanation of the Lord