A94156:366
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.
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.
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.
Prayer, is not only a Storehouse of mercies, but a Fort-royal to defend the soul against miseries; as some write of the herb Panaces, it is good for all diseases. When Satan entered the field against Paul, the Apostle held up this shield of prayer to defend himself against his fiery darts; For this I besought the Lord thrice, 2 Cor. 12.7. Prayer hath stormed and surprised more Cities, conquered and routed more Armies, then old mens heads or young mens hands, then all the policy and power on earth.
Prayer, is not onely a Storehouse of mercies, but a Fort-royal to defend the soul against miseries; as some write of the herb Panaces, it is good for all diseases. When Satan entred the field against Paul, the Apostle held up this shield of prayer to defend himself against his fiery darts; For this I besought the Lord thrice,