A94156:259
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.
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. 1The Turks willingly lay down their lives in their Wars to propagate their Religion, which their Prophet hath taught them must be done, non disputando, sed pugnando, not by disputing with, but by destroying others. The unhappy Jesuit (though his Religion ⟨p. 86⟩be an heap of formalities, as the Turks a bundle of fooleries) is yet so zealous for it, that Campian could impudently in a Letter to Q. Elizabeths Council affirm, That as long as there was one Jesuit left for Tyburn, they had vowed never to desist endeavours to set up their Religion in this Nation. O devout ungodliness, or ungodly devotion! How few take such pains to go to Heaven, as many do to go to Hell?
Among the Mahometans are a sect called the Dervises, 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 cloaths but to cover their nakedness, wear such massie 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. 1The Turks willingingly lay down their lives in their Wars to propagate their Religion, which their Prophet hath taught them must be done, non disputando, sed pugnando, not by disputing with, but by destroying others. The unhappy Jesuite (though his Religion ⟨p. 86⟩be an heap of formalities, as the Turks a bundle of fooleries) is yet so zealous for it, that Campian could impudently in a Letter to Q. Elizabeths Council affirm, That as long as there was one Jesuite left for Tiburn, they had vowed never to desist endeavors to set up their Religion in this Nation. O devout ungodliness, or ungodly devotion! How few take such pains to go to Heaven, as many do to go to Hell?