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The Christian mans care A sermon on Matth. 6. 33. Together with a short…
The Christian mans care A sermon on Matth. 6. 33. Together with a short catechism for the simpler sort. By Thomas Gataker, B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.The Christian mans care A sermon on Matth. 6. 33. Together with a short catechisme for the simpler sort. By Thomas Gataker, B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by John Haviland for Fulke Clifton, 1624London: printed by Iohn Haviland for Fulke Clifton, 1624
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 CHRISTIAN MANS CARE.
MATTH. 6.33. Seek first the Kingdom of God, and his Righteousness: and all these things shall be added unto you.
MATTH. 6.33. Seeke first the Kingdome of God, and his Righteousnesse: and all these things shall be added unto you.
IT is the wonted manner of Physicians, awhen blood issueth out immoderately one way, to open a vein elsewhere, and so *by revulsion, as they term it, to stay it, by diverting the course and current of it another way:3 The like course doth our Saviour Christ take in this place. For observing bthe minds and hearts, the thoughts and cares of most men, to be wholly addicted unto, and carried after the things of this world; he endeavoureth in this place to withdraw them ⟨p. 2⟩