A94156:1137
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.
Because my pattern of evil will do more hurt to my family, 3then my precepts can do good (servants and children being apt to be led more by the eye then the ear) I wish, That I may take heed to my self, weigh and watch over all my words and works, not only for my own, but also for the sake of them that are committed to my charge. Distillations from the head, ⟨p. 569⟩often consume and destroy the vitals: My family is like a flock of sheep; if the first leap through into a ditch, or river, the rest are ready to follow. O that I might therefore be wary in all my ways, and be so serious in Spiritual, so sober in Natural actions; so righteous towards men, so religious towards my God; so faithful in every relation, and so holy and heavenly in every condition, that I may have cause to say to my children and servants, as Gideon to his Soldiers, Look on me, and do likewise, Judg. 7.17.
Because my pattern of evil will do more hurt to my family, 3then my precepts can do good (servants and children being apt to be led more by the eye then the ear) I wish, That I may take heed to my self, weigh and watch over all my words and works, not onely for my own, but also for the sake of them that are committed to my charge. Distillations from the head, ⟨p. 569⟩often consume and destroy the vitals: My family is like a flock of sheep; if the first leap through into a ditch, or river, the rest are ready to follow. O that I might therefore be wary in all my ways, and be so serious in Spiritual, so sober in Natural actions; so righteous towards men, so religious towards my God; so faithful in every relation, and so holy and heavenly in every condition, that I may have cause to say to my children and servants, as Gideon to his Souldiers, Look on me, and do likewise, Judg. 7.17.
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