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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.
Civil or natural difference amongst us here below, commandeth proportionable reverence; the Subject must fear his Sovereign, 1 Pet. 2.17. The Servant must obey his Master with fear and trembling, Ephes. 6.5. the Wife must see that she reverence her Husband, Ephes. 5. ult. If there be such reverence due from one creature to another, ⟨p. 122⟩when they were all made of the same course earthly mould, and must all be buried in the bowels of their common Mother; when there is no essential, but only an extrinsical difference between them; what reverence is due from poor dust and ashes, to the God of the Spirit of all flesh? the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, between whom and his creatures there is an infinite distance?
Civil or natural difference amongst us here below, commandeth proportionable reverence; the Subject must fear his Soveraign, 1 Pet. 2.17. The Servant must obey his Master with fear and trembling, Ephes. 6.5. the Wife must see that she reverence her Husband, Ephes. 5. ult. If there be such reverence due from one creature to another, ⟨p. 122⟩when they were all made of the same course earthly mold, and must all be buried in the bowels of their common Mother; when there is no essential, but onely an extrinsecal difference between them; what reverence is due from poor dust and ashes, to the God of the Spirit of all flesh? the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, between whom and his creatures there is an infinite distance?