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The works of George Swinnock, M.A
The works of George Swinnock, M.A. containing these several treatises ...
London: printed by J.B. for Tho. Parkhurst, 1665
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Preface: [And Exercise thy self unto Godliness.] The Preface.
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.
It is the Character of the Christian to be constant in his gracious course. If you would speak with the Tradesman, you may meet him in his Shop; The Farmers usual walk is in the Fields; He that hath business with the Merchant, expecteth him in his Counting-house, or amongst his Goods; And he that looketh for the Christian, shall not fail to find him with his God. 1Whether he be alone or in company, abroad or in his Family, buying or selling, feeding himself, or visiting others, he doth all as in his Gods presence, and in all aimeth at his praise. As the Sap of a Tree riseth up from the root, not only to the body, but also to the branches of the smallest twigs; so grace in a Saint springeth up from his heart, and floweth out not only in his spiritual and higher, but also in his civil and lower actions.
It is the Character of the Christian to be constant in his gracious course. If you would speak with the Tradesman, you may meet him in his Shop; The Farmers usual walk is in the Fields; He that hath business with the Merchant, expecteth him in his Counting-house, or amongst his Goods; And he that looketh for the Christian, shall not fayl to finde him with his God. 1Whether he be alone or in company, abroad or in his Family, buying or selling, feeding himself, or visiting others, he doth all as in his Gods presence, and in all aimeth at his praise. As the Sap of a Tree riseth up from the root, not onely to the body, but also to the branches of the smallest twigs; so grace in a Saint springeth up from his heart, and floweth out not only in his spiritual and higher, but also in his civil and lower actions.
- 1Ambulare est vivere. Hac loquendi formula admonemur, Christianum esse in perpetuo itinere versus caelest in patriam, neque unquam esse illi subsistendum in via, sed perpetuo ambulandum & pr•grediendum. Dav. in Col.