A94156:341
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.
The worshipping of God in his Ordinances is the homage, which as creatures, we owe to our Maker, and as Christians, we owe to our Redeemer; God alloweth us the comfort of our mercies, but he reserveth to himself the credit of our mercies, and hath appointed the hours of prayer to be the set times for the payment of this small Quit-rent (infinitely inferior to our engagements) to his sacred Majesty.
The worshipping of God in his Ordinances is the homage, which as creatures, we ow to our Maker, and as Christians, we owe to our Redeemer; God alloweth us the comfort of our mercies, but he reserveth to himself the credit of our mercies, and hath appointed the hours of prayer to be the set times for the payment of this small Quit-rent (infinitely inferior to our engagements) to his sacred Majesty.
Truly Reader, This end must be minded in thine attendance on the means of grace, namely to give God glory by acknowledging his Sovereignty over thee, and bounty to thee; or else when thou bendest the bow of thine heart, and shootest thy spiritual arrows thou wilt never hit the mark.
Truly Reader, This end must be minded in thine attendance on the means of grace, namely to give God glory by acknowleding his Soveraignty over thee, and bounty to thee; or else when thou bendest the bow of thine heart, and shootest thy spiritual arrows thou wilt never hit the mark.
2. Duties are considerable as means, in relation to the Promise; and so they are channels cut out by Christ to convey grace into the hearts of men, therefore thine end in this respect must be to derive grace from the God of all grace, through the means of grace. The place of Ordinances is called by some The door of Heaven, because there Christ gives his alms, his dole. Others call it The Celestial Exchange between God and his people; God doth