A94156:1075
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.
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. ult. The truth is, such persons are English in their language, but Indian in their Atheistical carriage. They feed and clothe their bodies like English men, but they starve and go naked in their souls, like Indians. Only herein they differ, that they cannot be prayerless in their Houses at so cheap a rate, but must expect an hotter Hell, because they sin against a clearer light. Many families are the picture of Hell, one may hear twenty Oaths for one prayer; the Master will often curse but seldom or never bless his family; he loveth cursing, so it will come to him, and as he delighted not in blessing, so it will be far from him.
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 joyned together, Jerem. 10. ult. The truth is, such persons are English in their language, but Indian in their Athiestical carriage. They feed and cloath their bodies like English men, but they starve and go naked in their souls, like Indians. Onely herein they differ, that they cannot be prayerless in their Houses at so cheap a rate, but must expect an hotter Hell, because they sin against a clearer light. Many families are the picture of Hell, one may hear twenty Oaths for one prayer; the Master will often curse but seldom or never bless his family; he loveth cursing, so it will come to him, and as he delighted not in blessing, so it will be far from him.