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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.
CHAP. VI. Religion is a work of the greatest weight. It is Soul-work, it is God-work, it is Eternity-work.
CHAP. VI. Religion is a work of the greatest weight. It is Soul-work, it is God-work, it is Eternitywork.
Secondly, Godliness ought to be every mans main business, because it is a work of the greatest concernment and weight. Things that are of most stress call for our greatest strength. Our utmost pains ought to be laid out upon that which is of highest price: Mans diligence about any work must be answerable to the consequence of the work. The folly of man seldom appears more then in being very busy about nothing, in making a great cry where there is little Wool; like that empty fellow that showed himself to Alexander (having spent much time and taken much pains at it before hand) and boasted that he could throw a Pea through a little hole, expecting a great reward, but the King gave him only a bushel of Pease for a recompense, suitable to his diligent negligence, or his busy Idleness. Things that are vain and empty are unworthy of our care and industry. The man that by hard labour and hazard of his life did climb up to the top of the Steeple, to set an Egg an end, was deservedly the object of pity and laughter: We shall think him little better then mad, that should make as great a fire for the roasting of an Egg, as for the roasting of an Ox.
SEcondly, Godliness ought to be every mans main business, because it is a work of the greatest concernment and weight. Things that are of most stress call for our greatest strength. Our utmost pains ought to be laid out upon that which is of highest price: Mans diligence about any work must be answerable to the consequence of the work. The folly of man seldom appears more then in being very busie about nothing, in making a great cry where there is little Wool; like that empty fellow that shewed himself to Alexander (having spent much time and taken much pains at it before hand) and boasted that he could throw a Pea through a little hole, expecting a great reward, but the King gave him onely a bushel of Pease for a recompence, sutable to his diligent negligence, or his busie Idleness. Things that are vain and empty are unworthy of our care and industry. The man that by hard labour and hazard of his life did climb up to the top of the Steeple, to set an Egg an end, was deservedly the object of pity and laughter: We shall think him little better then mad, that should make as great a fire for the rosting of an Egg, as for the roasting of an Ox.