A94156:331
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.
When thou hearest; In the fear of God give audience to his word; Act. 13.16. Poor peasants must be trembling when this Prince is speaking. With meekness receive that word which will damn or save thy soul. Alas with what fear should a condemned Prisoner attend to his King, when every word he speaks is life or death. It becomes the greatest Persons •o be awful in Gods presence. Constantine the Great, when hearing a Sermon, 1would start out of his Chair of State, being ravished with the word, and stand up for a long time; and being minded by his Courtiers, that such a posture was unbecoming his high place, he would not hearken to them. Eglon though a fat unwieldy man, as soon as Ehud told him that he had a Message from God to him, rose up to hear it, Judg. 3.20. Abraham, who had the honour and favour to be Gods friend, yet when God spake to him fell on his face, Gen. 17.3. Moses though high in the heart of God, yet is hun•ble when he hears from God, He boweth his head to wards the Earth and Worships, Exod 34.8.
When thou hearest; In the fear of God give audience to his word; Act. 13.16. Poor peasants must be trembling when this Prince is speaking. With meekness receive that word which will damn or save thy soul. Alass with what fear should a condemned Prisoner attend to his King, when every word he speaks is life or death. It becomes the greatest Persons •o be awful in Gods presence. Constantine the Great, when hearing a Sermon, 1would start out of his Chair of State, being ravished with the word, and stand up for a long time; and being minded by his Courtiers, that such a posture was unbecoming his high place, he would not hearken to them. Eglon though a fat unweildy man, as soon as Ehud told him that he had a Message from God to him, rose up to hear it,