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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.
What Moses calls fearing God, Deut. 6.13. our Saviour quoting, calls Worshipping God (Mat. 4.9, 10.) by a Synecdoche, because the former is both a part and a sign of the latter. As when the guard are watching at the Court gate, or on the stairs, and examining those that go in, its a sign the King ⟨p. 16⟩is within, so when the fear of God stands at the door of the heart, to examine all that go in, least the Traitor Sin should steal in slyly, its a sign that God is within, that he sits upon the Throne of the soul and is worshipped there.
What Moses cals fearing God, Deut. 6.13. our Saviour quoting, calls Worshipping God (Mat. 4.9, 10.) by a Synecdoche, because the former is both a part and a sign of the latter. As when the guard are watching at the Court gate, or on the stairs, and examining those that go in, its a sign the King ⟨p. 16⟩is within, so when the fear of God stands at the door of the heart, to examine all that go in, least the Traytor Sin should steal in slily, its a sign that God is within, that he sits upon the Throne of the soul and is worshipped there.
Secondly, The Object, the true God. All Religion without the knowledge of the true God, is a mere notion, a very empty nothing, Divine Worship is one of the chiefest jewels of Gods Crown, 1which he will by no means part with, God alone is the Object of the godly mans worship,