A94156:336
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.
Further, Thine acceptance in the Ordinances ⟨p. 127⟩of God is through Christ. O how unsavoury would thy best duties be were it not for the odours of his most sweet sacrifice. The golden Censor and the Incense under the Law typified that all our performances must be perfumed and presented by Christ, before they can be accepted with God. The smoke of the Incense must ascend with the Saints prayers before they can be pleasing. The incense (which signified the merits of Christ) is the pillar of smoke in which the believers performances mount up to Heaven, Rev. 8.3, 4. No wonder that David begged so hard Let my prayers come before thee like incense. The Priests when they went into the Tabernacle to sacrifice were commanded to put off their own, and to put on the holy garments provided for them, Exod. 28.43. intimating, that none must approach God in the rags of their own, but in the robes of Christs Righteousness. The Ark which was a special type of Christ (without of Shittim wood, speaking his Humanity, within of wrought gold, typifying his Deity) did signify thus much to us; it covered the two Tables, so Christ the Law; there God gave his gracious answers, and was propitious to his people, so God accepteth the persons and prayers of men in Christ, Ephes. 1.6. If the Patriarchs were welcome to Pharaoh it was for Josephs sake; and if the people of God are welcome at any time to him, it is for Jesus sake.
Further, Thine acceptance in the Ordinances ⟨p. 127⟩of God is through Christ. O how unsavoury would thy best duties be were it not for the odors of his most sweet sacrifice. The golden Censor and the Incense under the Law typified that all our performances must be perfumed and presented by Christ, before they can be accepted with God. The smoke of the Incense must ascend with the Saints prayers before they can be pleasing. The incense (which signified the merits of Christ) is the pillar of smoak in which the beleevers performances mount up to Heaven,