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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.
Well might Charles the Fifth, 1when solicited by a great Counsellor Antonino de Leva to cut off all the Princes in Germany, that he might rule alone, forbear to put his advice into practice, and cry out, O Anima, Anima! O my soul, my soul, what then will become of my soul? It was a royal answer which Maximilian King of Bohemia gave the Pope, who persuaded him to turn good Catholic, promising him much advantage; I thank your Holiness, but my souls health is dearer to me then all the things in the world. Hist. Counc. Trent.
Well might Charls the Fifth, 1when sollicited by a great Counsellor Antonino de Leva to cut off all the Princes in Germany, that he might rule alone, forbear to put his advice into practice, and cry out, O Anima, Anima! O my soul, my soul, what then will become of my soul? It was a royal answer which Maximilian King of Bohemia gave the Pope, who perswaded him to turn good Catholique, promising him much advantage; I thank your Holiness, but my souls health is dearer to me then all the things in the world. Hist. Counc. Trent.
- 1Val. Rath. Car. lib. 3.
The Apostle calls the body a vile body, Phil. 3. ult. in regard of its original production (it was made not of heavenly materials, as Sun or Stars; nor ⟨p. 51⟩of precious materials, as pearls or jewels, but ex pulvere limoso & lutoso, of dust mingled with water) and in regard of its ultimate resolution, it becomes first an ugly ghastly carcass, and then moulders into earth; but the Holy ghost calls the Soul, The breath of the Almighty, Job 33.4