A94156:223
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.
Two things show a necessity that Godliness must be made our business, if ever we would make any thing of it.
Two things shew a necessity that Godliness must be made our business, if ever we would make any thing of it.
First, Because of the opposition we meet with in the way of Religion, When the Wind and Tide are both with the Mariner he may hoist up his sail and sit still, but when both are against him, he must row hard or never think to come to his Haven. The way to Heaven is like Jonathans passage against the Philistines, betwixt two rocks, the one Bozez, dirty; the other Seneb, thorny; the men of the world will be ever diligent, either with dirt to bespatter their credits, or with thorns to wound and pierce their consciences that walk in this path; he must therefore have a mind well resolved to take pains, and his feet well shod with patience, that will go this way to Paradise. The way of this world is like the vale of Siddim, slimy and slippery, ⟨p. 66⟩full of lime-pits and stumbling-blocks to maim or mischief us. Saints are Princes in all lands, but as Princes that pass through a Country in disguise meet with many affronts, so do Christians.
First, Because of the opposition we meet with in the way of Religion, When the Wind and Tide are both with the Marriner he may hoise up his sail and sit still, but when both are against him, he must row hard or never think to come to his Haven. The way to Heaven is like Jonathans passage against the Philistims, betwixt two rocks, the one Bozez, dirty; the other Seneb, thorny; the men of the world will be ever diligent, either with dirt to bespatter their credits, or with thorns to wound and pierce their consciences that walk in this path; he must therefore have a mind well resolved to take pains, and his feet well shod with patience, that will go this way to Paradise. The way of this world is like the vale of Siddim, slimy and slippery, ⟨p. 66⟩