A94156:126
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.
Inward worship is sometimes set forth by loving God, Jam. 2.5. sometimes by trusting him, Psa. 16.1. sometimes by delighting in him, Psa. 37.3. sometimes by sorrow for offending him, Psa. 51.3. because this Worship of God (as one piece of gold containeth many pieces of silver) comprehendeth all of them. All the graces are but so many links of this golden chain. As all the members of the natural body are knit together, and walk always in company, so all the parts of the new man are joined together, and never go but as the Israelites out of Egypt, with their whole train; If there be one Wheel missing in a Watch, the end of the whole is spoiled; if one grace should be wanting in a Saint, he would be unsainted. There is a concatenation of graces, as well as of moral virtues. Those that Worship God give him their hottest love, their highest joy, their deepest sorrow, their strongest faith, and their greatest fear, as Abraham gave Isaac, he gives God all.
Inward worship is sometimes set forth by loving God, Jam. 2.5. sometimes by trusting him, Psa. 16.1. sometimes by delighting in him, Psa. 37.3. sometimes by sorrow for offending him, Psa. 51.3. because this Worship of God (as one peice of gold containeth many peices of silver) comprehendeth all of them. All the graces are but so many links of this golden chain. As all the members of the natural body are knit together, and walk always in company, so all the parts of the new man are joyned together, and never go but as the Israelites out of Egypt, with their whole train; If there be one Wheel missing in a Watch, the end of the whole is spoiled; if one grace should be wanting in a Saint, he would be unsainted. There is a concatenation of graces, as well as of moral vertues. Those that Worship God give him their hottest love, their highest joy, their deepest sorrow, their strongest faith, and their greatest fear, as Abraham gave Isaac, he gives God all.