A94156:135
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.
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⟩scents the tongue, and eyes, and ears, and hands, and whatsoever is near it with holiness: Worship is called the name of God, Ps. 29. and worshipping, a praising him, 2 Chron. 7.3. Because as a man by his name, so God by his worship is known in the world; and those that worship him in their practices, do before the eyes of the world give him praise.
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 dunghil full of filth, it sends forth a noisom and unsavoury stench in the life; so when the heart is like a box of musk, it perfumes and ⟨p. 19⟩sents the tongue, and eyes, and ears, and hands, and whatsoever is near it with holiness: Worship is called the name of God, Ps. 29. and worshipping, a praising him, 2 Chron. 7.3. Because as a man by his name, so God by his worship is known in the world; and those that worship him in their practices, do before the eyes of the world give him praise.