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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.
Sir, to your favourable eye, whose happiness it is to inherit your Ancestors graces, as well as their riches. It was counted a great honour to the Family of the Curio's, that there were three excellent Orators in it one after another; and to the Family of the Fabii, 1that there were in it three Presidents of the Senate successively: It is your glory to descend not only of a Father who walked with God, and of a Grandfather, who (it is hoped) dyed in the faith;) but also of a great Grandfather, who was famous for serving the will of God in his generation. The holy Apostle speaketh ⟨image 9⟩to the glory of Timothy, concerning his unfeigned faith which dwelt first in his Grandmother Lois, and his Mother Eunice, 2 Tim. 1.5. To the glory of free-grace I mention it, Holiness in your house did not run only in the masculine race; your tender Mother was like Dorcas, full of good works, and a dutiful Daughter to the Father of mercies; and your Honoured Grandmother yet alive, is an old Disciple of the holy Jesus: O how much are you bound to the Lord, that grace should thus run in a blood! Boleslaus King of Poland, when he was to speak or do any thing of concernment, would take out a little picture of his Fathers, that he carried about him; and kissing it would say, I wish I may speak or do nothing at this time, unworthy thy name.
Sir, to your favourable eye, whose happiness it is to inherit your Ancestors graces, as well as their riches. It was counted a great honor to the Family of the Curio's, that there were three excellent Orators in it one after another; and to the Family of the Fabii, 1that there were in it three Presidents of the Senate successively: It is your glory to descend not onely of a Father who walked with God, and of a Grandfather, who (it is hoped) dyed in the faith;) but also of a great Grandfather, who was famous for serving the will of God in his generation. The holy Apostle speaketh ⟨image 9⟩to the glory of Timothy, concerning his unfeigned faith which dwelt first in his Grandmother Lois, and his Mother Eunice,