A94156:1090
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.
The Parents of the Children destroyed by the two she-Bears, were wont to jeer Elijah in their ordinary talk; What Elijah the bald-pate must be taken up to Heaven, Forsooth, as well as Elijah. The Children hearing it spoken by them, learned it of them, though they paid dear for their learning, for it cost them their lives, and for ought I know their souls, 2 King. 2.24. O Reader, doth not thine heart ache to read this, and hast thou not abundant cause to be heedful, lest by thy pattern thou shouldst draw thy Children to sin, and to Hell! The Idolatrous Israelites drew their children to join with them in the Worship of false Gods, Ezek. 18.2.
The Parents of the Children destroyed by the two she-Bears, were wont to jeer Elijah in their ordinary talk; What Elijah the bald-pate must be taken up to Heaven, Forsooth, as well as Elias. The Chidren hearing it spoken by them, learned it of them, though they paid dear for their learning, for it cost them their lives, and for ought I know their souls, 2 King. 2.24. O Reader, doth not thine heart ake to read this, and hast thou not abundant cause to be heedful, lest by thy pattern thou shouldst draw thy Children to sin, and to Hell! The Idolatrous Israelites drew their children to joyn with them in the Worship of false Gods, Ezek. 18.2.
Plutarch observeth of Cato that he was very wary not to speak an uncomely word in the presence of his Children. 1This Heathen will condemn many Christians, who will curse, and swear, and ⟨p. 540⟩drink and roar, and that in presence of their children; Reader, avoid sin, both for thy own and others sake. As a stone thrown into the water, makes but one circle at first, but that one begetteth many; so though the sin in thee at first be but one, ye it may cause many both in thy children and servants. The sin of a Master or Mistress is like an infectious Air, which others breathing in are infected by it. Thy servants will as readily put on thy lusts as thy livery, and thy Children will be proud of such a patronage, such a cloak for their villainy. A dark eye benights the whole body. Weigh all thy words and all thy works, considering how many followers thou hast, he that sinneth once, sinneth twice if he sin before others.