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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.
Socrates one day meeting Zenophon the Son of Corillus in a certain Port Town, 1stopped him with his staff, and asked him, Where was the place where several commodities were to be had? He answered readily, In such a place: Then saith Socrates, Where is the place that a man might be made good? Zenophon answered, he could not tell. Then follow thou me, saith Socrates, and thou shalt learn; and from that time he became Socrates Scholar. The Ordinances of God are the places for both, there true riches and virtue may be had; the Temple is both the Exchange for traffic, and a School for learning. The good Master teacheth his Scholars there those lessons which make them wise to salvation.
Socrates one day meeting Zenophon the Son of Corillus in a certain Port Town, 1stopt him with his staff, and asked him, Where was the place where several commodities were to be had? He answered readily, In such a place: Then saith Socrates, Where is the place that a man might be made good? Zenophon answered, he could not tell. Then follow thou me, saith Socrates, and thou shalt learn; and from that time he became Socrates Schollar. The Ordinances of God are the places for both, there true riches and vertue may be had; the Temple is both the Exchange for traffique, and a School for learning. The good Mast•r teacheth his Schollars there those lessons which make them wise to salvation.
- 1••og of ae• in vi•.
Reader, the Ordinances are the food of the soul (milk for babes, and meat for men) do thou feed on them to get spiritual health •nd strength; It is a shame for a Christian to be like an Anbusie about a molehill & never to grow greater: Goo those wells that the vessels of thy soul may be filled with living water.