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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
Treatise › Chapter 5: Religion is the great end of mans Creation.
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Now the great end to which man is designed by God, 1is the exercising himself to godliness. God erected the stately fabric of the great World for man, but he wrought the curious piece of the little World [man] for himself, Of all his visible works he did set man apart for his own Worship. Man saith one, 2is the end of all in a semicircle, intimating that all things in the World were made for man, and man was made for God. It is but rational to suppose that if this World was made for us, we must be made for more then this World. It is an ingenious observation of Picus Mirandula, God created the Earth for beasts to inhabit, the Sea for fish, the Air for fowls, the Heavens for Angels and Stars, man therefore hath no place to dwell and abide in, but the Lord alone.
Now the great end to which man is designed by God, 1is the exercising himself to godliness. God erected the stately fabrique of the great World for man, but he wrought the curious piece of the little World [man] for himself, Of all his visible works he did set man apart for his own Worship. Man saith one, 2is the end of all in a semicircle, intimating that all things in the World were made for man, and man was made for God. It is but rational to suppose that if this World was made for us, we must be made for more then this World. It is an ingenious observation of Picus Mirandula, God created the Earth for beasts to inhabit, the Sea for fish, the Air for fowls, the Heavens for Angels and Stars, man therefore hath no place to dwell and abide in, but the Lord alone.
- 1Hic si. is Ju•a naefornationis ut homo si etmplem De, & Deus ara homi nis.Hic si. is Iu•a naefornationis ut homo si etmplem De, & Deus ara homi nis.
- 2•ustum est ut creatura laudet creatorem ipse enim ad laudan dum secreavit. Aug.