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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.
Godliness is a work that relates not only to few lives, as lands do, or to a few generations as mens books do, but to the boundless bottomless Ocean of eternity indeed, and therefore calleth for all our care and diligence: 1Drexelius observeth well out of the Father, Our works do not pass away as soon as they are done (as they may seem to do) but as seed sown in time, they rise up to all Eternity. A little neglect now may prove an eternal loss; Whatsoever we think, speak or do, once thought, spoke or done it is eternal, it abideth for ever.
Godliness is a work that relates not onely to few lives, as lands do, or to a few generations as mens books do, but to the boundless bottomless Ocean of eternity indeed, and therefore calleth for all our care and diligence: 1Drexelius observeth well out of the Father, Our works do not pass away as soon as they are done (as they may seem to do) but as seed sown in time, they rise up to all Eternity. A little neglect now may prove an eternal loss; Whatsoever we think, speak or do, once thought, spoke or done it is eternal, it abideth for ever.
- 1Drex. Eternit. Conclus. lib.
Eternal life is promised to the diligent; 1Eternal death is the portion of the negligent: The former shall be bathed in the rivers of Gods eternal pleasures, the latter shall suffer the vengeance of eternal fire. To be tormented day and night for ever and ever, and to enjoy the exceeding and eternal weight of glory are certainly no jesting matters, but of more concernment then we can possibly conceive. Who would not labour hard to attain eternal life? Who would not work night and day to avoid eternal death, eternal woe.