A94156:286
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.
The Jews had their daily, weekly, monthly, yearly addresses unto God, to teach us that we must be always trading heavenward, that there must be an unwearied commerce, an uninterrupted intercourse betwixt God and our souls. Saints lives are therefore compared to a walk, and called a walking with God, or a walking before God; they must still walk as in company with him, and tread ⟨p. 104⟩every step as under his eye, Gen. 5.22. and 17.1. The Planets because of their wandering nature, are sometime nearer to, sometime further from the earth, yet always within the Zodiac, the highway of the Sun. So the Christian, though he be sometimes stooping to the earth in his particular calling, sometime mounting up to Heaven in the immediate Worship of God, yet he must always be in the path of godliness; The highway of the Sun of Righteousness. Be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long, saith Solomon, Prov. 23.17. Whether a Christian be eating, or drinking, or buying, or selling, or ploughing, or sowing, or riding, or walking, whatever he be doing, or wherever he be going, he must be always in the fear of the Lord; Godliness must be his guide, his measure and his end; as the salt it must be sprinkled on every dish to make it savoury. Thy life, O Christian, must be so led that it may be a continued serving of God.
The Jews had their daily, weekly, monthly, yearly addresses unto God, to teach us that we must be always trading heavenward, that there must be an unwearied commerce, an uninterrupted intercourse betwixt God and our souls. Saints lives are therefore compared to a walk, and called a walking with God, or a walking before God; they must still walk as in company with him, and tread ⟨p. 104⟩every step as under his eye, Gen. 5.22. and 17.1. The Planets because of their wandering nature, are sometime nearer to, sometime further from the earth, yet always within the Zodiack, the highway of the Sun. So the Christian, though he be sometimes stooping to the earth in his particular calling, sometime mounting up to Heaven in the immediate Worship of God, yet he must always be in the path of godliness; The highway of the Sun of Righteousness. Be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long, saith Solomon,