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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
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.
CHAP. XXVII. How a Christian may exercise himself to Godliness in his Family as the governor thereof.
CHAP. XXVII. How a Christian may exercise himself to Godliness in his Family as the governour thereof.
IT is thy duty to exercise thy self to godliness in thy Family and relations. 1A Christian must not like the Israelites Pillar in the Wilderness, be light on one side, and dark on the other; be diligent in one relation, and negligent in another; but as a candle in a Crystal Lantern, be lightsome quite round it, be holy in every Relation in which he standeth.
IT is thy duty to exercise thy self to godliness in thy Family and relations. 1A Christian must not like the Israelites Pillar in the Wilderness, be light on one side, and dark on the other; be diligent in one relation, and negligent in another; but as a candle in a Chrystial Lanthorn, be lightsom quite round it, be holy in every Relation in which he standeth.
- 1Fifthly,
Reader, I shall consider thee as Governor or Governess of a Family, and herein direct thee what thou shouldst do for the faithful discharge of thy trust in that relation.