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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 ...
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Swinnock, George, 1627-1673.
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his return from Carthage when he did at any time deliver his judgement about any business in the Senate he would conclude his speech with Methinks Carthage should be destroyed Sirs will you suffer me to tell you again and again Methinks a dying hour is not to be neglected Methinks a living God is worthy to be embraced Though there may be some difference among you about things that are ceremonial and circumstantial yet ye are I hope generally agreed I am sure all are that have the least favour of Religion [a] Deu. 32.29 Psa 90.12 That mans greatest wisdom is to prepare for his dying hour [b] Psa 73.25 Mat. 22.35 1 Joh. 2.15 That the heart of Religion consisteth in taking not the World but God for your portion and happiness [c] 1 Cor. 6.9 10. Gal. 5.19 20 21. That prophaness ought to be avoided in your selves and [d] Rev. 2.2 2 Chron. 15.16 Psa 101.7 1 Tim. 5.22 suppressed according to your places and powers in others [e] 1 Tim. 4.8 2 Tim. 3.5 Joh. 4.24 That the power of Godliness ought chiefly to be minded and countenanced [f] Rom. 8.5 13. That an holy spiritual not a fleshly sensual life is the way to Heaven [g] Gen. 18.19 Prov. 22.6 Eph. 6.4 That your Children and Servants ought to be instructed in the knowledge of God and Christ of their misery and the means of their recovery [h] Josh 24.15 Psa 101.2 6 7. Col. 3.16 Rom. 16.5 Jerem. 10. ult That your houses should be Churches praying reading and singing Families and [i] Exo. 20.8 Isa 58.13 Act. 20.7 Rev. 1.10 that the Lords day should be conscienciously observed and devoted to the dearest Redeemer by secret private and publique duties These things are written as with the beams of the Sun so clearly in the Scriptures that if ye deny them ye deny your selves to be Christians and profess your selves to be Infidels I beseech you therefore in the name of the blessed Saviour who redeemed you from your vain conversations with his own most precious blood and for the sake of your immortal souls which within a few day must throw their last cast for eternity that your practices be answerable to such principles For Beleive me it will be a dreadful thing another day for your lives to give your consciences the lye at this day I have but one request more to you pardon my freedom and plainness of speech for truly my heart is inlarged towards you be pleased to peruse the following discourse with serious consideration of the truth and weight of the particulars therein delivered and with supplication to God that the Treatise may be serviceable to your eternal salvations If I write not what is agreeable to the Word of God reject it but if I do submit to it least ye subvert your own souls The Father of mercies and God of all grace inlighten all your minds in the saving knowledge of himself and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent bless this brief discourse to you infuse grace in every of you where it is wanting increase grace where it is bless you so in civil things that your Town may be an habitation of justice and so succeed you in Spirituals that it may be a mountain of holiness and enable you all so to prepare for death that it may be to you the gate of life so to take him for your portion that he may be your everlasting possession and so to glorifie him in your Generations that ye may be meet for and heirs of the eternal weight of glory which is the Prayer of Your most affectionate Servant George Swinnock The Contents of the several Chapters CHAP. I. THe Preface division of the Psalm and Coherence of the Text. page 1 CHAP. II. The Interpretation of the Text and the first Doctrine That man is mortal page 7 CHAP. III. The Reasons of the Doctrine Mans corruptibility Gods Fidelity and mans Apostacy from God page 16 CHAP. IV. First use of Information containing the folly of them who make provision for the flesh page 23 CHAP. V. An Exhortation to Sinners to prepare for death with three quickening Motives Death will come certainly Death may come suddenly When it comes it will be too late to prepare page 29 CHAP. VI. Three Motives more to prepare for Death A dying hour will be a trying hour The misery of the unprepared The felicity of such as are prepared for death page 43 CHAP. VII What is requisite to prepare for death viz. A change of State and a change of Nature with a gracious offer from the most high God to sinners page 60 CHAP. VIII How a Saint may come to dye with much courage page 83 CHAP. IX The second Doctrine That God is the comfort of a Christian in the saddest condition With the Reason Because his happiness is in God page 105 CHAP. X. God must needs be mans happiness because 1. He is an All-sufficient Good able to free the soul from all evil and to fill it with all good page 108 CHAP. XI God the Saints happiness 2. Because God is a sutable good page 115 CHAP. XII God the Saints happiness because of his Eternity and the Saints propriety in him page 118 CHAP. XIII The first Use The difference betwixt a Saint and a sinner in distress page 122 CHAP. XIV Second Use Information The difference betwixt the portions of the Gracious and Graceless in this world page 127 CHAP. XV. The difference betwixt the Sinner and the Saints portion in the other world page 133 CHAP. XVI The second Use by way of Trial Whether God be our portion or no with some marks page 138 CHAP. XVII The third Use Exhort to chuse God for our portion page 147 CHAP. XVIII God is a satisfying and a sanctifying portion page 158 CHAP. XIX God an universal and eternal portion page 168 CHAP. XX. Comfort for such as have God to their portion page 178 Books Printed for and sold by Thomas Parkhurst at the sign of the three Crowns over against the Great Conduit at the lower end of Cheapside Folio's THe Anotations on the whole Bible or all the Canonical Scriptures of the Old and new Testament together with and according to their own Translation of all the Texts as both the one and the other were ordered and appointed by the Synod of Dort now faithfully Translated for the use of Great Britain at the earnest desire of many eminent Divines of the English and Scottish Nation A Commentary upon the three first Chapters of Genesis by John White The Works of that famous and learned Divine Mr. William Pemble gathered into one volume The History of the Evangelical Churches in the Valleys of Piedmont containing a most exact Geographical description of the place and a faithful account of the Doctrine life and persecutions of the ancient Inhabitants Together with a most naked and punctual relation of the late bloody Massacre 1655. justified partly by divers ancient
Manuscrips written many hundred years before Calvin or Luther by Samuel Morland Esq A Commentary upon the holy Writings of Job David and Solomon that is these five Job Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs being part of those which by the ancient were called Hagrographa Wherein the divers Translations and Expositions both literal and mystical of all the most famous Commentators both ancient and modern are propounded examined and censured and the Texts from the Original much illustrated by John Mayor Doctor in Divinity A practical Commentary or an Exposition with observations Reasons and Uses upon the first Epistle general of John by that pious and worthy Divine Mr. John Cotten Pastor of Bosten in New-England A learned Commentary or an Exposition upon the first Chapter of the second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians being the substance of many Sermons formerly Preached at Grays-Inn London by that Reverend and Judicious Divine Richard Sibs D. D. sometimes Master of Katherine-Hall in Cambridge and Preacher to that honourable Society ΤΑΑΙΑΘΕΡΟÎΥΑ or Divine characters in two parts accutely distinguishing the more secret and undeserned difference between 1. The Hypocrite in his best dress of seeming vertue and formal duties and the true Christian in his real graces and sincere obedience As also between the blackest weeds of dayly infirmities of the truely godly eclipsing saving grace and the reigning of sins of the unregenerate that pretend unto that godliness they never had by that late burning and shining Lamp Mr. Samuel Crook B. D. late Pastor of Wringion in Summersetshire Quartos THe humbled Sinner resolved what he should do to be saved or Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ the onely way for sensible sinners discovering the Quality Objects Acts Seat Subject inseparable Concomitants and degrees of justifying Faith Wherein several Cases are resolved and Objections answered by Obadiah Sedgwick B. D. and late Minister of the Gospel in Covent Garden The Anatomy of Secret sins presumtuous sins Sins in Dominion and uprightness Wherein divers weighty Cases are resolved in relation to all those Particulars delivered in divers Sermons Preached at Mildreds Bread-street London on Psal 19.12 13. by the same Author The Fountain opened and the water of life flowing forth for the refreshing of thirsty sinners Wherein is set out Christs earnest and gracious invitation of poor sinners to come unto the Waters in several Sermons Preached at Covent-Garden on Isa 55.1 2 3. by the same Author The plain Doctrine of the justification of a sinner in the sight of God justified by the God of truth in his holy Word and the cloud of Witnesses in all Ages VVherein are handled the causes of the sinners justification by Charls Chauncy President of Harvard Colledge in Cambridge in New-England Two Excellent Treatises of Mr. Jerremiah Burroughs one on the fifth of Matthew being many Sermons Preached at Cripplegate upon all the Beatitudes And Gospel-Revelation in three Treatises viz. 1. The Nature of God 2. The excellency of Christ 3. The excellency of Mans immortal Soul both published by William Greenhil William Bridge Phylip Nye John Yates Matthew Mead William Alderly Holy things for holy men or the Lawyers Plea nonsuited c. In some Christian reproof and pity expressed to Mr. Pryns Book entituled Lords Supper briefly vindicated by S. S. Minister of the Gospel A Vindication of a Christians Messiah that Jesus is the true Messiah prophesied and foretold by the holy men of God who were writers of the Old Testament as also proved out of their own Talmud The Souls progress to the Celestial Canaan by John Wells Preacher of the Gospel Comfortable Sermons on Psalm 24. Preached before the Lady Elizabeth her Grace by Danial Dyke B. D. Plenary possession makes a lawful subjection to Powers that are in being proved to be lawful and necessary in a Sermon before the Judges in Exeter by Richard Saunders Preacher of the Gospel The new World or the new reformed Church discovered out of the second Epistle of Peter by Nathaniel Hâ—mes D. D. God save the King in a Sermon preached the day after his Majesty came into London by Anthony Walker preacher of the Gospel A plea for Ministers in Sequestrations against Mr. Mossom by S. S. An antidote against Anabaptism wherein the Baptizing Infants taking Tythes c. are fully vindicated by Aylmor Hauton The conversation as Heavenly and as Natural in two Treatises by Dr. Stoughton An Exposition with practical Observations continued upon the thirtieth and one and thirtieth Chapters of the Book of Job being the substance of thirty seven Lectures delivered at Magnus near the Bridge London by Josep Caryl pastor of the Congregation there Also a Continuation by the same Author of the 32 33 34. Chapters of Job being the substance of forty nine Lectures delivered at Magnus near the Bridge London The Covenant of life opened or a Treatize of the Covenant of Grace by Samuel Rutherford Professor of Divinity in the University of of St. Andrews Jesus Christ the mystical or Gospel Sun sometimes seeming Eclipsed yet never going down from his people or Eclipses spiritualized opened in a Sermon at Pauls Church before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor Aldermen c. March 28. 1652. the day before the late Solar Eclipse by Fulk Beller M. A. and Preacher of the Gospel in the City of London A Sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at their late monthly Fast being on Wednesday June 30. 1647 by Nathaniel Ward Minister of Gods Word A Declaration of the Faith and Order owned and practised in the Congregational Churches in England agreed upon and consented unto by their Elders and Messengers in their meeting at the Savoy October 12. 1658. The humble Advice of the Assembly of Divines concerning a Larger Catechism presented by them to both Houses of Parliament Mesolabium Architectonicum that is a most rare and singular instrument for the easie speedy and most certain measuring of Plains and Solids by the foot invented long since by Mr. Thomas Bedwel Esq A Changeling no company for Lovers of Loyalty or the Subjects lesson in point of sacred submission to and humble compliance with God and the King The beauty of Magistracy in an Exposition of 12. Psalm where is set forth the Necessity Utility Dignity Duty and Morality of Magistrates by the labours of Thomas Hall B. D. and Pastor of Kingsnorton and George Swinnock M. A. and Pastor of great Kimbel A Continuation of the Exposition on the remaining Capters of the Prophet Ezekiel beginning at the thirtieth Chapter to the end of that Prophesie by William Greenhil late Minister of Stepney near London to compleat the whole Exposition upon that part of Scripture An Exposition on the whole Book of Solomons Song commonly called the Cantieles by Richard Roboltam The humble advice of the Assembly of Divines concerning a Confession of faith presented by them to both Houses of Parliament A Theatre of flying Insects wherein especially the manner of