A94156:1074
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.
They that will not beg family supplies, and bless God for family mercies, may well be branded for ungodly and ungrateful wretches. Prayer and praise are like the double motion of the lungs; what we suck in by petition, we breath out in thanksgiving, and without this, Religion cannot live in a family. What dangers are thy family liable to every day, and without prayer thou hast no guide, no guard? Origen going once to comfort a Martyr was himself apprehended and constrained ⟨p. 532⟩either to have his body abused by a Blackamore, or to offer to the Idol; which latter he did, but bewailing it saith, I went out that morning without prayer, which I know was the cause of that evil.
They that will not beg family supplies, and blesse God for family mercies, may well be branded for ungodly and ungrateful wrethces. Prayer and prayse are like the double motion of the lungs; what we suck in by petition, we breath out in thanksgiving, and without this, Religion cannot live in a family. What dangers are thy family liable to every day, and without prayer thou hast no guide, no guard? Origen going once to comfort a Martyr was himself apprehended and constrained ⟨p. 532⟩either to have his body abused by a Blackamore, or to offer to the Idol; which latter he did, but bewailing it saith, I went out that morning without prayer, which I know was the cause of that evil.
Its said of the Egyptians, that there was a great cry at midnight, for in every house there was one dead. Reader, are there not dead souls in thy family, Children and servants dead in sins, and trespasses, and shall there be no cry, no complaining to God there! I must tell thee thy house is worse then a Pest-house, for thou hast infected, and dangerously diseased souls in it, and not so much as Lord have mercy upon us, written on thy door. Heathens, and families without prayer, are fitly joined together, Jerem. 10