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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.
This is the godly mans duty, to make Heaven his Throne, and the Earth his foot-stool. Its the exposition which one gives upon those words, Subdue the Earth, Gen. 1.28. that is thy body, and all earthly things to thy soul. Our earthly callings must ⟨p. 26⟩give way to our Heavenly, we must say to them as Christ to his Disciples. Tarry you here while I go and pray yonder, and truly godliness must be first in our Prayers, Hallowed be thy Name, thy Kingdom come, before, give us this day our daily bread; and first in all our practices seek first the Kingdom of God, and the righteousness thereof, and all other things shall be added to you. Mat. 6.33.
This is the godly mans duty, to make Heaven his Throne, and the Earth his foot-stool. Its the exposition which one gives upon those words, Subdue the Earth, Gen. 1.28. that is thy body, and all earthly things to thy soul. Our earthly callings must ⟨p. 26⟩give way to our Heavenly, we must say to them as Christ to his Disciples. Tarry you here while I go and pray yonder, and truely godliness must be first in our Prayers, Hallowed be thy Name, thy Kingdom come, before, give us this day our daily bread; and first in all our practices seek first the Kingdom of God, and the righteousness thereof, and all other things shall be added to you. Mat. 6.33.
Secondly, to make Religion ones business, containeth to pursue it with industry, in our conversations. A man that makes his calling his business, is not lazy but laborious about it, what pains will he take? what strength will he spend? how will he toil and moil at it early and late? The Tradesman, the Husbandman, eat not the bread of Idleness, when they make their callings their business; if they be good Husbands, they are both provident to observe their seasons, and diligent to improve them for their advantage, they do often even dip their food in their sweat, and make it thereby the more sweet. Their industry appears in working hard in their callings, and in improving all opportunities for the furtherance of their callings.