A94156:333
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.
Go to the Sacrament, 1that representation of Christs suffering, as the Disciples went from his Sepulchre, with fear and great joy; The Fathers call it, misterium tremendum, the nearer we draw to God in any Ordinance, the greater must be our reverence. In a Sermon we draw nigh to him, as Pupils to their Tutor; In prayer, as Children to their Father, but at a Sacrament we talk with God face to face; We Sup with him, and he with us. If Angels veil their faces in his presence, much more cause have we to serve him with fear and trembling in every ordinance. In a word, Let us have grace whereby we may serve him acceptably with reverence and godly fear, for our God is a consuming ⟨p. 125⟩sire, Heb. 12.28, 29. Mark the way to serve God acceptably, is to serve him reverently. As the Quaver addeth a grace to the Music, and makes it more acceptable to us, so an holy trembling graceth our performances, and makes them more acceptable to God.
Go to the Sacrament, 1that representation of Christs suffering, as the Disciples went from his Sepulchre, with fear and great joy; The Fathers call it, misterium tremendum, the nearer we draw to God in any Ordinance, the greater must be our reverence. In a Sermon we draw nigh to him, as Pupils to their Tutor; In prayer, as Children to their Father, but at a Sacrament we talk with God face to face; We Sup with him, and he with us. If Angels vail their faces in his presence, much more cause have we to serve him with fear and trembling in every ordinance. In a word, Let us have grace whereby we may serve him acceptably with reverence and godly fear, for our God is a consuming ⟨p. 125⟩sire, Heb. 12.28, 29. Mark the way to serve God acceptably, is to serve him reverently. As the Quaver addeth a grace to the Musick, and makes it more acceptable to us, so an holy trembling graceth our performances, and makes them more acceptable to God.