A94156:307
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.
A Prince may be pleased, if his Kitchen be but indifferent neat and handsome, but he looks that in his Parlour (where he gives entertainment to his friend) all things should be in Print. Where Gods special walk is amongst his Candlesticks, and amidst his Myrtle Trees, there Godliness must be our special work, Holiness becometh thy house, O Lord for ever. Psa. 93. ult. Godliness doth always suit the back of a Saint: This gracious garment is a glorious ornament to him, whatever he is doing or where ever he is going; but the apparel doth become him best in his approaches to the holy God. No Hangings, no Tapestry becomes Gods house so well as Holiness; and no place is so proper as the House of God for this costly, comely furniture.
A Prince may be pleased, if his Kitchin be but indifferent neat and handsom, but he looks that in his Parlour (where he gives entertainment to his friend) all things should be in Print. Where Gods special walk is amongst his Candlesticks, and amidst his Myrtle Trees, there Godliness must be our special work, Holiness becometh thy house, O Lord for ever. Psa. 93. ult. Godliness doth always sute the back of a Saint: This gracious garment is a glorious ornament to him, whatever he is doing or where ever he is going; but the apparel doth become him best in his approaches to the holy God. No Hangings, no Tapestry becomes Gods house so well as Holiness; and no place is so proper as the House of God for this costly, comely furniture.
God is more honoured or dishonoured in our Religious actions, then in all the actions of our lives; in them we do directly and immediately pretend his Honour and Service, and therefore if we do not walk in them watchfully, and intend them seriously the greater is our sin. For a trespass committed against holy things, the Jews were to bring a Ram to be valued by the shekel of the Sanctuary; for a trespass against their brethren, a Ram was required, but no such valuation expressed; whence Origen infers, Aliud est peccare in sanctis, aliud extra sancta: It is one thing to sin in holy things, another thing to sin beside them, and he urgeth that place in Samuel,