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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.
3. To the Consequents, or those things which must follow after prayer.
1. To the Antecedents of prayer. Preparation is necessary before prayer. Zopher acquainteth Job how his prayers might come to be prevalent. If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hand unto him, Job 11.13. The heart is the Forge where these Vessels for the Sanctuary are formed ⟨p. 147⟩and fashioned, and made in secret; the tongue is but the thop wherein they are exposed to public view; therefore the heart must do its work well before the tongue can commend its ware; the heart must indite a good matter, before the tongue will be as the pen of a ready writer.
1. To the Antecedents of prayer. Preparation is necessary before prayer. Zopher acquainteth Job how his prayers might come to be prevalent. If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hand unto him, Job 11.13. The heart is the Forge where these Vessels for the Sanctuary are formed ⟨p. 147⟩and fashioned, and made in secret; the tongue is but the thop wherein they are exposed to publique view; therefore the heart must do its work well before the tongue can commend its ware; the heart must indite a good matter, before the tongue will be as the pen of a ready writer.
God commandeth us both to look to our hearts and mouths when we are in his house; be not rash with thy mouth to utter any thing before God, and keep thy feet when thou art in the House of God,