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The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature…
The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature and necessity of it is discovered. : As also the Christian directed how he may perform it in [brace] religious duties, natural actions, his particular vocation, his family directions, and his own recreations. / By George Swinnock ...
London: printed for T.P., 1662
Treatise › Chapter 26: How to exercise our selves to Godliness in our Partiular Callings.
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Fifthly, If thou dost prosper in thy Calling, let God alone have the praise: Do not Sacrifice to thy own net, Hab. 1.10. (as the Jews did) as though by thy skill and wisdom thou hadst met with such a draught; but consider, the providence of God hath brought in all thy profit: Beware when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, lest thine heart be lifted up; and thou say in thine heart, My power, and the might of my hands hath gotten me this wealth, Deut. 8.14. to 18. Man is apt to make himself his Idol, and to attribute all to his own pains and prudence. Men boast, saith Luther, Hoc ego feci, 1& hoc ego feri, and show themselves to be mere feces: They brag, This I have done, and this I have done, and ⟨p. 488⟩thereby appear to be nothing but dregs. God took it ill that Tyre should say, By my traffic and my wisdom I have increased my wealth; and telleth her, That she had set her heart as the heart of God, Ezek. 28.3, 4, 5.
Fifthly, If thou dost prosper in thy Calling, let God alone have the praise: Do not Sacrifice to thy own net, Hab. 1.10. (as the Jews did) as though by thy skill and wisdom thou hadst met with such a draught; but consider, the providence of God hath brought in all thy profit: Beware when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, lest thine heart be lifted up; and thou say in thine heart, My power, and the might of my hands hath gotten me this wealth, Deut. 8.14. to 18. Man is apt to make himself his Idol, and to attribute all to his own pains and prudence. Men boast, saith Luther, Hoc ego feci, 1& hoc ego feri, and shew themselves to be meer feces: They brag, This I have done, and this I have done, and