A94156:279
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 this Worshipping the true God according to his revealed will. Do not dally and trifle at it, be not cold and careless about it. Take heed of the Worldlings politic principles. Fair and softly goeth far; Too much of one thing is good for nothing; Its good to be Religious, but not too conscientious; A little moderation would not do amiss. These men would serve thee as ignorant Mountebanks do their Patients, that whilst they go about to cool the liver (least it should set the blood in a flame) kill the stomach, and thereby necessarily destroy the body. They pretend some fear that thou mayst work too hard, even to thy hurt, when thou canst never do enough, much less, too much, for thy God and thine everlasting good: I must needs tell thee that there is an impossibility of dividing thy service betwixt thy sins and thy Saviour, and of parting thy heart and work between the world and the word. No man can serve two Masters. Mat. 6.24. If like a Meteor thou hangest between heaven and earth, haltest between Christ and the flesh, as a hunting Dog between too Hares, running sometime after this, sometime after that, thou wilt be sure at last to lose both.
Exercise thy self to this Worshipping the true God according to his revealed will. Do not dally and trifle at it, be not cold and careless about it. Take heed of the Worldlings politique principles. Fair and softly goeth far; Too much of one thing is good for nothing; Its good to be Religious, but not too conscientious; A little moderation would not do amiss. These men would serve thee as ignorant Montebanks do their Patients, that whilst they go about to cool the liver (least it should set the blood in a flame) kill the stomach, and thereby necessarily destroy the body. They pretend some fear that thou mayst work too hard, even to thy hurt, when thou canst never do enough, much less, too much, for thy God and thine everlasting good: I must needs tell thee that there is an impossibility of dividing thy service betwixt thy sins and thy Saviour, and of parting thy heart and work between the world and the word. No man can serve two Masters. Mat. 6.24. If like a Meteor thou hangest between heaven and earth, haltest between Christ and the flesh, as a hunting Dog between too Hares, running sometime after this, sometime after that, thou wilt be sure at last to lose both.