A94156:256
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.
they lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a Gold-Smith, and he maketh it a God, and they fall down and Worship it. Isa. 46.6. The Israelites will spare their Jewels for their Idols, Exod. 32.3. Micah's mother to make molten and graven Images will lay out eleven hundred shekels of silver, Judg. 17.2, 3. The Papists are so prodigal though it is the less wonder in them, because they hold such actions meritorious of Salvation, (and what would not a man give or do to be saved?) that not only their Churches but even Cloisters are stuck and stuffed with costly, pearly presents, to their supposed Saints. The Indians in the Isle of Zeylon having a consecrated Apes tooth got from them, offered an incredible mass of treasure to recover it. How many zealots that will hardly give a penny to the relief of a poor Christian throw away pounds for the maintenance of Superstition?
they lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the ballance, and hire a Gold-Smith, and he maketh it a God, and they fall down and Worship it. Isa. 46.6. The Israelites will spare their Jewels for their Idols, Exod. 32.3. Micha's mother to make molten and graven Images will lay out eleven hundred shekels of silver, Judg. 17.2, 3. The Papists are so prodigal though it is the less wonder in them, because they hold such actions meritorious of Salvation, (and what would not a man give or do to be saved?) that not onely their Churches but even Clorsters are stuck and stuft with costly, pearly presents, to their supposed Saints. The Indians in the Isle of Zeylon having a consecrated Apes tooth got from them, offered an incredible mass of treasure to recover it. How many zealots that will hardly give a penny to the releif of a poor Christian throw away pounds for the maintenance of Superstition?