A94156:1088
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.
A governor of a family, must like Moses, be mighty both in word and deed. Patterns are very prevalent both to good and evil. Precepts teach, but examples draw. Why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? Gal. 2.14. Peter did not compel them by his Preaching, but by his pattern. His example was so powerful, that even Barnabas (as well as others) was drawn away therewith. It is observable that Jeroboam seldom appeareth in the Heaven of Scripture, but in the form of a Blazing Star, with a tail after him, Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin; by his precepts he commanded them to sin, but by his pattern he compelled them to sin. As examples are attractive to evil, so also to good. That if any believe not, they may be won without the word by the conversation of the wife, 1 Pet. 3.1, 2. If godliness be written in the book of thy life, in a fair Character, in a large lovely letter, it may invite thy children and servants to read and like it, who otherwise possibly would not have taken the least notice of it.
A governour of a family, must like Moses, be mighty both in word and deed. Patterns are very prevalent both to good and evil. Precepts teach, but examples draw. Why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? Gal. 2.14. Peter did not compel them by his Preaching, but by his pattern. His example was so powerful, that even Barnabas (as well as others) was drawn away therewith. It is observable that Jeroboam seldom appeareth in the Heaven of Scripture, but in the form of a Blazing Star, with a tayl after him, Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin; by his precepts he commanded them to sin, but by his pattern he compelled them to sin. As examples are attractive to evil, so also to good. That if any beleive not, they may be won without the word by the conversation of the wife, 1 Pet. 3.1, 2. If godliness be written in the book of thy life, in a fair Character, in a large lovely letter, it may invite thy children and servants to read and like it, who otherwise possibly would not have taken the least notice of it.