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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.
Nay they will sacrifice not only their Estates and children, but their lives and all their outward comforts to superstition: 1How did the worshippers of Baal cut and lance themselves. Ahaz sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that smote him, 2 Chron. 28.23. So fervent he was that he chose rather, in the service of false gods to be scourged, then in the service of the true God to be saved.2
Nay they will sacrifice not onely their Estates and children, but their lives and all their outward comforts to superstition: 1How did the worshippers of Baal cut and lance themselves. Ahaz sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that smote him, 2 Chron. 28.23. So fervent he was that he chose rather, in the service of false gods to be scourged, then in the service of the true God to be saved.2
- 1Verberari à dae mone mallebat quam à Deo coronari. Mendoz. in 1 Sam. 8.
- 2Purr. Pilgrim. p. 1478.Pur. Pilgrim. p. 1478.
Among the Mahometans are a sect called the Dervishes, whose sharp and strict penances exceed those of the Papists; they live on the tops of hills, solitary, for contemplation, fast till nature be almost decayed, have no clothes but to cover their nakedness, wear such massive fetters of iron upon their legs, that they can scarce stir, and yet go as fast as they can with them many miles to visit the Sepulchres of their deluded Saints.