A94156:219
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.
The lazy World, because Christ sends chapmen up and down with his wares, to offer them to every house, to every heart, think to have them ⟨p. 64⟩at their own ordinary rates, but they shall find that grace which is many degrees short of glory, is not to be had by sloth and idleness; there must be lifting up the heart, lending the ears, seeking, searching, begging, digging, attention of the outward intention of the inward man, before men can understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God, Prov. 2.3, 4, 5. Though it be easy to let the bucket into the Well, yet it is hot work, and hard labour to draw water out of the Well of Salvation. The laborious Be, only is laden with honey.
The lazy World, because Christ sends chapmen up and down with his wares, to offer them to every house, to every heart, think to have them ⟨p. 64⟩at their own ordinary rates, but they shall find that grace which is many degrees short of glory, is not to be had by sloth and idl•ness; there must be lifting up the heart, lending the ears, seeking, searching, begging, digging, attention of the ou•ward intention of the inward man, before men can understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God, Prov. 2.3, 4, 5. Though it be easie to let the backet into the Well, yet it is hot work, and hard labour to draw water out of the Well of Salvation. The laborious Bee, onely is laden with hony.