A94156:272
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.
Themistocles seeing two Cocks fight, 1when he was going to a battle, pointed his Soldiers to them and said, Do you see •onder Combatants, how valiantly they deal their blows? with what fury they fight? and yet they fight not for their Country, nor for their Gods, nor for the honour of their Ancestors, nor for Glory, nor Liberty, nor Children? What courage then, my brave Countrymen, should this put into our hearts, on whose resolution all these depend, and by whose valour they subsist? So say I to thee, Reader, Dost thou see yonder Worldling, how he rideth, runneth, toileth, moileth, sweateth, wasteth his strength, wrongeth his body, makes a very pack-horse of it, and will scarce allow it time to eat or sleep? Dost thou see yonder Superstitious person, how zealous he is for the inventions of men, laying his Estate, Limbs, Liberty and Life at the feet of his own Idol […] how like one upon a fiery Steed full of mettle, ⟨p. 96⟩he rides post out of Gods way, and from Gods Word? Nay dost thou see yonder Sinner, what time he spends, what miseries he endures? what Wealth he wastes? how hard he labours to gratify his Lust? And yet these work not for the Blood of Christ, nor for the Love of the Father, nor for the Graces of the Spirit, nor from freedom from the Curse of the Law, the slavery of Satan, the torments of Hell, nor for their Souls, nor for their God, nor for fullness of joy, and the pleasures that are at Gods right hand for evermore? What Zeal and Fervency should this put into our hearts, Dear Friends! and what diligence and industry into our hands, when we work and trade for all these? and if we make them our business our labour shall not be in vain in the Lord.
Themistocles seeing two Cocks fight, 1when he was going to a battel, pointed his Souldiers to them and said, Do you see •onder Combatants, how valiantly they deal their blows? with what fury they fight? and yet they fight not for their Country, nor for their Gods, nor for the honour of their Ancestors, nor for Glory, nor Liberty, nor Children? What courage then, my brave Countrymen, should this put into our hearts, on whose resolution all these depend, and by whose valour they subsist? So say I to thee, Reader, Dost thou see yonder Worldling, how he rideth, runneth, toileth, moileth, sweateth, wasteth his strength, wrongeth his body, makes a very pack-horse of it, and will searce allow it time to eat or sleep? Dost thou see yonder Superstitious person, how zealous he is for the inventions of men, laying his Estate, Limbs, Laberty and Life at the feet of his own Idol how like one upon a fiery Steed full of mettle,