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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 2: The opening of the Text and the Doctrine.
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1. Strictly, and then it includeth only the immediate worship of God, or obedience to the First Table, and is distinguished from righteousness, Tit. 2.11, 12. so ungodliness is distinct from unrighteousness, Rom. 1.18.
1. Strictly, and then it includeth onely the immediate worship of God, or obedience to the First Table, and is distinguished from righteousness, Tit. 2.11, 12. so ungodliness is distinct from unrighteousness, Rom. 1.18.
2. Largely, And then it comprehendeth our duty to our neighbour, as well as to God, and ⟨p. 9⟩obedience to the Second as well as the first Table, so righteousness is religion, and in our dealings with men we may do our duty to God; its taken thus, 1 Tim. 6.6. and in the Text. The good Husbandman makes no balks in the field of Gods precepts. Timothy must make it his trade to pay God and men their due. He must not like the Pharisees seem as tender of the First Table as of the apple of his eye, and trample the second as dirt under his feet; they prayed in Gods house all day, to prey upon the widows house at night; nor as some (whom the world call honest men) who will not wrong their neighbours of the least mite, and yet wickedly rob God of many millions; they steal from him both time and love, and trust and bestow them on earthly trifles; the bird that will fly well must use both wings; the Waterman if he would have his boat move rightly, must ply both oars; the Christian if he would make any thing of his heavenly trade must mind both Tables.