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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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The very Heathen were somewhat sensible of this: 1The Metapontines after a plentiful Harvest, which had much enriched them, dedicated an Harvest cut in gold, to Apollo their God. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion: For he maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat, Psal. 147.12, 13, 14. When God sendeth thee in profit, thy duty is to give him praise. Do not bury Gods mercies as the barren earth the seed, that when once its thrown into the ground, we hear no more of it: God expecteth, as the trees by their leaves in Autumn pay their tribute of thanks to the Earth, the Mother of their fruitfulness; so that we should honour him when he heapeth favours on us.
The very Heathen were somewhat sensible of this: 1The Metapontines after a plentiful Harvest, which had much enriched them, dedicated an Harvest cut in gold, to Apollo their God. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion: For he maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat, Psal. 147.12, 13, 14. When God sendeth thee in profit, thy duty is to give him praise. Do not bury Gods mercies as the barren earth the seed, that when once its thrown into the ground, we hear no more of it: God expecteth, as the trees by their leaves in Autumn pay their tribute of thanks to the Earth, the Mother of their fruitfulness; so that we should honor him when he heapeth favours on us.
- 1Strabo Geog.
Some men are like Fishermen's weels, wide to receive in mercies, but there is no passage out for the returning of praises. Those places where the Rivers are shallowest, make the greatest sound; those where they are deepest, are most silent. Men while they are poor, sound with prayers, make a great noise for mercies; but when God blesseth them with wealth, they are silent in regard of