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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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Some men are like the leaves of a tree, which every wind sets a shaking and trembling; or like a bone out of joint, which a man cannot stir without pain; if the World do but frown upon them, you may see it in their faces, they are quite dejected with sorrow: O how heavy presently are their hearts, as if they had lost their Heaven! It is to be feared that bough is rotten, which breaketh if but a little weight be hung upon it. A godly man should be like a Rock, immovable, though high winds, and boisterous waves of Providence blow and beat upon him; and like a Die, however he be thrown, always to fall upon a square. The Traveller need not murmur, though his Inn afford him but mean fare, and an hard bed, when he knoweth that he must be gone ⟨p. 491⟩next morning. The Ox is not happier which hath two or three mountains to graze on, then the Bee which feedeth upon that dew which falleth daily from the store-house of Heaven: If thou hast secured thine ever lasting estate, the boundless God is thy portion, and surely then thou mayst be like a spring full, under the most scorching Providence.
Some men are like the leaves of a tree, which every wind sets a shaking and trembling; or like a bone out of joynt, which a man cannot stir without pain; if the World do but frown upon them, you may see it in their faces, they are quite dejected with sorrow: O how heavy presently are their hearts, as if they had lost their Heaven! It is to be feared that bough is rotten, which breaketh if but a little weight be hung upon it. A godly man should be like a Rock, immoveable, though high winds, and boisterous waves of Providence blow and beat upon him; and like a Die, however he be thrown, always to fall upon a square. The Traveller need not murmure, though his Inn afford him but mean fare, and an hard bed, when he knoweth that he must be gone ⟨p. 491⟩next morning. The Ox is not happier which hath two or three mountains to graze on, then the Bee which feedeth upon that dew which falleth daily from the store-house of Heaven: If thou hast secur'd thine ever lasting estate, the boundless God is thy portion, and surely then thou mayst be like a spring full, under the most scorching Providence.