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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
Treatise › Chapter 8: A Complaint that this Trade is so dead, and the Worlds trade so quick.
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.
How do men (like the Israelites in the Egyptian bondage) travel up and down and even weary themselves to gather straw. What pains do they take to hew unto themselves broken cisterns. Their chief strife is with the Toads, who shall fall asleep with most earth in their mouths, who shall leave this world with most wealth in their hands: Their parts and gifts, their time and talents, are all improved to help forward their earthly trade, They are wiser in their generation then the children of light.
How do men (like the Israelites in the Egyptian bondage) travel up and down and even weary themselves to gather straw. What pains do they take to hew unto themselves broken cysterns. Their chief strife is with the Toads, who shall fall asleep with most earth in their mouths, who shall leave this world with most wealth in their hands: Their parts and gifts, their time and talents, are all improved to help forward their earthly trade, They are wiser in their generation then the children of light.
Oh how lamentable is it that the onions and garlic of Egypt are preferred before the milk and honey of Canaan. 1Luther tells us of a noble man at Vienna, in the time of his abode there, which made a great Supper, and in the midst of his mirth belched out this windy and blasphemous speech, If God will leave me this world to live and enjoy my pleasure therein but a thousand years, then let him take his Heaven to himself. This man spake what most men think; the bramble of their bodies reigneth and fire ariseth out of it to consume the cedar of their souls.
Oh how lamentable is it that the oynions and garlick of Egypt are preferred before the milk and honey of Canaan. 1Luther tells us of a noble man at Vienna, in the time of his abode there, which made a great Supper, and in the midst of his mirth belched out this windy and blasphemous speech, If God will leave me this world to live and injoy my pleasure therein but a thousand years, then let him take his Heaven to himself. This man spake what most men think; the bramble of their bodies reigneth and fire ariseth out of it to consume the cedar of their souls.