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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.
Chapter 1: The Preface, Division of the Psalm, and coherence of the Text.
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 Heathen have from the flourishing of such unholy persons flatly denied all providence. Diogenes the Cynic, seeing Harpalus a vicious fellow increasing in wealth, whilst he wallowed in wickedness, said, That the Gods took no care how things were carried here below. The Athenians upon the defeat and death of their honest General Nicias in Sicily, concluded, That the divine Powers were wholly regardless of humane affairs. And not only these blind Heathen who walked in the night of darkness, but even Saints themselves, who were able to see afar off, and who pondered the paths of their feet, have stumbled at this stone, Jer. 12.1, 2. Hab: 1.13.
The Heathen have from the flourishing of such unholy persons flatly denied all providence. Diogenes the Cynick, seeing Harpalus a vicious fellow increasing in wealth, whilst he wallowed in wickedness, said, That the Gods took no care how things were carried here below. The Athenians upon the defeat and death of their honest General Nicias in Sicily, concluded, That the divine Powers were wholly regardless of humane affairs. And not onely these blind Heathen who walked in the night of darkness, but even Saints themselves, who were able to see afar off, and who pondered the paths of their feet, have stumbled at this stone, Jer. 12.1, 2. Hab: 1.13.
Secondly, The Cure of his distemper; his disease was bad eyes: An envious eye is an evil eye; Why is thine eye evil because mine is good, Matth. 20.15. His remedy was this, His eyes were anointed with some Eye-salve out of the Sanctuary which helped them. He saw the end of wicked mens prosperity, to be no less then endless misery; that they did but like Malefactors, go up the ladder above others, to be turned off and executed; and this satisfied him.