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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.
Warn the unruly, comfort the feeble minded, support the weak, be patient towards all men, rejoicing evermore, pray without ceasing, in every thing give thanks; For this is the will of God concerning you, 1 Thess 5.14, 15, 16, 17, 18. God required the Israelites to bring a sheaf in a Ghomer, about a pottle, for all their increase of the fruits of the earth, Lev. 23.10. whereby they acknowledged that they receive all from him. Though man be unable to satisfy Gods Justice by all his devotion, yet God will be owned and acknowledged in holy duties. Copy-holders though they have the profits of their Houses and Lands to themselves, yet pay some small Quit-Rent, and at certain times do suit and service to the Lord •f their Manor, acknowledging thereby that the Fee-simple is his, and they enjoy the• through his favour. The earth is the Lords, and th• ⟨p. 130⟩fullness thereof, He is the mighty possessor of heaven and earth, and though he gives the earth by leases for lives (as it were) and copies to the children of men, yet the Fee-simple and original right is still in himself, and he hath appointed seasons daily and weekly for duties, wherein Christians should acknowledge that they hold all of him, and enjoy all through his grace and good will.
Warn the unruly, comfort the feeble minded, support the weak, be patient towards all men, rejoycing evermore, pray without ceasing, in every thing give thanks; For this is the will of God concerning you, 1 Thess 5.14, 15, 16, 17, 18. God required the Israelites to bring a sheaf in a Ghomer, about a pottle, for all their increase of the fruits of the earth, Lev. 23.10. whereby they acknowledged that they receive all from him. Though man be unable to satisfie Gods Justice by all his devotion, yet God will be owned and acknowledged in holy duties. Copy-holders though they have the profi•s of their Houses and Lands to themselves, yet pay some small Quit-Rent, and at certain times do suit and service to the Lord f their Manor, acknowleding thereby that the Fee-simple is his, and they enjoy the through his favour. The earth is the Lords, and th