A94156:365
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.
It is said of the Pope, He can never want money while he can hold a pen, His writing of Pardons and Indulgences filleth his coffers. It is more true of the Christian, he need never want if he will but pray. Prayer is a key to Gods own coffers wherein there are infinite, and all sorts of comforts. I have no friends, said a good woman, but I have a prayer, and so long as I have a praying heart, God will find a pitying heart and a helping hand. It is but ask, and receive; seek, and find; knock, and it shall be opened. Matth. 7.7, 8. The child presenteth his petition to his Father, and at the foot of it there is Fiat quickly written.
It is said of the Pope, He can never want money while he can hold a pen, His writing of Pardons and Indulgencies filleth his coffers. It is more true of the Christian, he need never want if he will but pray. Prayer is a key to Gods own coffers wherein there are infinite, and all sorts of comforts. I have no friends, said a good woman, but I have a prayer, and so long as I have a praying heart, God will find a pitying heart and a helping hand. It is but ask, and receive; seek, and find; knock, and it shall be opened. Matth. 7.7, 8. The child presenteth his petition to his Father, and at the foot of it there is Fiat quickly written.
Prayer is like the Spaniards Plate fleet which returns home worth thousands and millions. A Courtier will sometimes get more by a petition to his Prince in a morning, then some Tradesmen do all their lives. A regenerate person being in favour at Court gaineth more by a morning […], then a wicked man, though he works hard, gets ⟨p. 143⟩while he liveth. I never said to the seed of Jacob seek ye me in vain: Some asked but the cure of their bodies, when God healed their bodies and souls too; he hath forced many an unexpected favour upon an upright fervent prayer.