A94156:372
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 Incense under the Ceremonial Law was a type of prayer; Let my prayer come before thee like Incense, but if it had not been made exactly, both for matter and manner according to Gods own prescription, (who himself gave special direction about it, Exod. 30.34.35, 36.) as sweet as the Spices were, it had been loathsome and unsavoury to him, the burning of Incense had been but as the blessing of an Idol, Isa. 66.3. I shall therefore for thy right management of this duty which is of such weight and importance to thee, speak to these three particulars.
The Incense under the Ceremonial Law was a tipe of prayer; Let my prayer come before thee like Incense, but if it had not been made exactly, both for matter and manner according to Gods own prescription, (who himself gave special direction about it, Exod. 30.34.35, 36.) as sweet as the Spices were, it had been loathsom and unsavoury to him, the burning of Incense had been but as the blessing of an Idol, Isa. 66.3. I shall therefore for thy right management of this duty which is of such weight and importance to thee, speak to these three particulars.
1. To the Antecedents, or those things which must go before prayer.
2. To the Concomitants, or those things which must accompany prayer.