A94156:348
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.
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 An••busie about a molehill & never to grow greater: Goo those wells that the vessels of thy soul may be filled with living water.
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 An••busie about a molehil & never to grow greater: Go•o those wells that the vessels of thy soul may be filled with living water.
David longed (as a Woman with Child, so the word signifieth) to see the beauty of the Lord, and receive of his bounty in the Sanctuary, Psa. 84.2. and 63.1, 2. and 27. Thou goest to the Market to supply thy bodily necessities, and art ashamed to come home empty? Dost thou not come to the Ordinances of God for the relief of thy soul indigencies, and art thou not grieved to come away poor and beggarly? Merchants take in some goods from one part, some from another part, and at last come home richly laden; do thou get some true riches at prayer, some from the word, and then how comfortably mayst thou conclude thy duties.
David longed (as a Woman with Child, so the word signifieth) to see the beauty of the Lord, and receive of his bounty in the Sanctuary, Psa. 84.2. and 63.1, 2. and 27. Thou goest to the Market to supply thy bodily necessities, and art ashamed to come home empty? Dost thou not come to the Ordinances of God for the releif of thy soul indigencies, and art thou not greived to come away poor and beggarly? Merchants take in some goods from one part, some from another part, and at last come home richly laden; do thou get some true riches at prayer, some from the word, and then how comfortably mayst thou conclude thy duties.