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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.
From all this it appeareth that Soul-work is a weighty work (not to be dallied or trifled with) b•t to be made the business of every man. Godliness must therefore be followed with care and conscience because of soul consequence. It was our deprivation of godliness which was the souls greatest loss, and therefore for the regaining of it, ought to be our greatest labour. God sent his Son into the world for this very purpose, that he might by his bloody passion restore man to his primitive purity and perfection. Godliness is the souls food which nourisheth it; who would feast his horse (•orpus est jumentum animae) and starve himself? The souls raiment both for its defence and warmth, nay the life of its life. The life of the soul as Jacobs in Benjamin, is bound up in godliness. Take godliness away and the soul goeth down into the grave of the other world with unspeakable sorrow.
From all this it appeareth that Soul-work is a weighty work (not to be dallied or trifled with) b•t to be made the business of every man. Godliness must therefore be followed with care and conscience because of soul consequence. It was our deprivation of godliness which was the souls greatest loss, and therefore for the regaining of it, ought to be our greatest labour. God sent his Son into the world for this very purpose, that he might by his bloody passion restore man to his primitive purity and perfection. Godliness is the souls food which nourisheth it; who would feast his horse (•orpus est jumentum animae) and starve himself? The souls rayment both for its defence and warmth, nay the life of its life. The life of the soul as Jacobs in Benjamin, is bound up in godliness. Take godliness away and the soul goeth down into the grave of the other world with unspeakable sorrow.
Godliness, as it is Soul-work, so it is God-work; as the excellency of the subject in which, so also the excellency of the object about which it is conversant speaks it to be weighty. 1