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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.
The Precept is full (though if a true Christian thou wilt esteem it thy privilege) that whatsoever thou dost, thou art to do all to the glory of God, 1 Cor. 10.31. God must be the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and end of all thy actions, thy duty is to pass the whole time of thy sojourning here in fear, 1 Pet. 1.17. Every moment must be devoted to God; and as all seasons so all actions must be sacred. There is a Prophecy, that in Jerusalem, in that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, Holiness to the Lord, and the pots in the Lords house shall be like the bowls before the Altar, yea every put ⟨p. 105⟩in Judah and Jerusalem shall be holiness to the Lord of Hosts, Zach. 14.20, 21. Mark, the same Inscription is to be upon the bells of horses, and on every pot with was on the High Priests mitre, Holiness to the Lord: to teach us, That every thing though but of common use should be sanctified to Gods service; 1That every ordinary enterprise (saith Calvin) should be a sacrifice.
The Precept is full (though if a true Christian thou wilt esteem it thy priviledge) that whatsoever thou dost, thou art to do all to the glory of God, 1 Cor. 10.31. God must be the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and end of all thy actions, thy duty is to pass the whole time of thy sourjourning here in fear, 1 Pet. 1.17. Every moment must be devoted to God; and as all seasons so all actions must be sacred. There is a Prophesie, that in Jerusalem, in that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, Holiness to the Lord, and the pots in the Lords house shall be like the bowles before the Altar, yea every put ⟨p. 105⟩in Judah and Jerusalem shall be holiness to the Lord of Hosts,