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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.
Exercise thy self to Godliness, not to Superstition: As the Ivy in time eats up the very heart of the Oak it groweth about; so doth Formality and Superstition the very heart and life of Religion; Let Gods Laws, not thy own or others Lusts be the rule whereby thou governest thy heart and life.
Exercise thy self to Godliness, not to Superstition: As the Ivy in time eats up the very heart of the Oake it groweth about; so doth Formality and Superstition the very heart and life of Religion; Let Gods Laws, not thy own or others Lusts be the rule whereby thou governest thy heart and life.
Superstition (saith an eminent Divine) is to true Holiness, 1what the Concubine is to the true Wife, who is sure to draw the Husbands love from her; this Brat the Devil hath long put out to nurse to the Romish Church, which hath taken a great deal of pains to bring it up for him, and no wonder when she is so well paid for its maintenance, it having brought her in so much worldly treasure and riches.
- 1Gurnal. Christ. incomp. arm. part. 2. edit. 2. p. 224.
What some observe of Horse hairs, that, though lifeless, yet lying nine days under water, ⟨p. 97⟩they turn to Snakes, may pertinently be applied to superstitious Ceremonies, which though at first dead, or held at most but indifferent, yet in continuance of time have quickened and done much mischief. There is a simplicity in the Word and Worship of God, which I would entreat thee to look after. (I fear least your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ,