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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.
Idleness is the burial of our persons, and negligence is the burial of our actions. Writing on the Sand is easy, but soon worn out. Its marred wit• ⟨p. 65⟩a small breath of wind, but writing on marble, as it is more permanent, so it costeth more pains. An idle servant is in Gods esteem an evil servant; he doth not distinguish betwixt a slothful and an unfaithful man: His Word tells us that he hath bonds for those hands that are folded in the bosom, when they should be working for a blessing; that he hath fetters for those feet that stand still and stick fast in the mire and mud of sinful pleasures, when they should be running the way of his precepts; nay, that he hath utter darkness for them that will not walk and work while they enjoy the light, Matth. 25.26, and 30. He that takes his ease in this world must travel in the next.
Idleness is the burial of our persons, and negliligence is the burial of our actions. Writing on the Sand is easie, but soon worn out. Its mar'd wit• ⟨p. 65⟩a small breath of wind, but writing on marble, as it is more permanent, so it costeth more pains. An idle servant is in Gods esteem an evil servant; he doth not distinguish betwixt a slothful and an unfaithful man: His Word tells us that he hath bonds for those hands that are folded in the bosom, when they should be working for a blessing; that he hath fetters for those feet that stand still and stick fast in the mire and mud of sinful pleasures, when they should be running the way of his precepts; nay, that he hath utter darkness for them that will not walk and work while they enjoy the light, Matth. 25.26, and 30. He that takes his ease in this world must travel in the next.