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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.
The life of Godliness lieth much more in the heart then in the life; and the Saints character is from their inward carriage towards God, they worship God in the Spirit, Phil. 3.3. A great French Peer is called le bond Chrestien, the good Christian, because they say it is never rotten at the core; God is a Spirit, and he will be worshipped in spirit and in truth, Joh. 4.24. In truth, that is scripturally, opposite to the inventions of mens heads: In Spirit, that is sincerely, opposite to the dissimulation of mens hearts. The deeper the belly of the Lute is the pleasanter the sound; the deeper our worship comes from the heart, the more delightful it is in Gods ears.
The life of Godliness lyeth much more in the heart then in the life; and the Saints character is from their inward carriage towards God, they worship God in the Spirit, Phil. 3.3. A great French Peer is called le bon Chrestien, the good Christian, because they say it is never rotten at the core; God is a Spirit, and he will be worshipped in spirit and in truth, Joh. 4.24. In truth, that is scripturally, opposite to the inventions of mens heads: In Spirit, that is sincerely, opposite to the dissimulation of mens hearts. The deeper the belly of the Lute is the pleasanter the sound; the deeper our worship comes from the heart, the more delightful it is in Gods ears.
And Life godliness, as it sets God on the Throne of the conscience, so it walks with God in the conversation. Though the spiritual (as the natural) life begin at the heart, yet it doth not end there, but proceeds to the hands; the same water appeareth in the Bucket which is in the Well. As when the heart is like a dunghill full of filth, it sends forth a noisome and unsavoury stench in the life; so when the heart is like a box of musk, it perfumes and ⟨p. 19⟩