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The spiritual watchThe spirituall vvatch
The spiritual watch, or Christs general watch-word A meditation on Mark. 13. 37. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.The spirituall vvatch, or Christs generall watch-word A meditation on Mark. 13. 37. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by Edward Griffin for William Bladen, 1619
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 worldly minded for other matters will be as conformable as you will desire: But for his State-sin, or his Trade-sin, with eNaaman, he must have a protection, that must not be stirred, it may not be touched: he will do any thing else that you will have him; but therein must God be merciful unto him: It is a thing incident to his trade and course of life; he cannot do otherwise; it is his living; and it is no other then every one doth: and if he should not do so as well as others, there were no living for him in the world. A wretched speech of a distrustful heart, refusing to trust him with the body, whom they would seem to trust with the soul. fFaith (saith one well) feareth no famine. Yea a fearful sign of an ungracious heart, loving and regarding ggain more then godliness, and preferring temporal living before life everlasting. hIt is better, saith our Saviour, to go halt and blind to heaven, then to go with health and sight to hell. So it is far better for a man, with iLazarus, to beg and starve in the streets, and so to be conveyed hence to heaven; then, with kthe rich man at whose door he lay, to live in good fashion, or gather a great estate together here, and then be lsnatched away hence to hell.
The worldly minded for other matters will be as conformable as you will desire: But for his State-sinne, or his Trade-sinne, with eNaaman, he must haue a protection, that must not be stirred, it may not be touched: he will doe any thing else that you will haue him; but therein must God be mercifull vnto him: It is a thing incident to his trade and course of life; he cannot doe otherwise; it is his liuing; and it is no other then euery one doth: and if he should not doe so as well as others, there were no liuing for him in the world. A wretched speech of a distrustfull heart, refusing to trust him with the bodie, whom they would seeme to trust with the soule.