A94156:385
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.
Meditate on thy sins; Thy duty in prayer is to Indict, Arraign, and Condemn, and Execute those Malefactors and Transgressors of the Royal Law, which can never be done till they are apprehended. If thou wilt kill those Foxes that spoil the ⟨p. 150⟩Vine, those lusts which hinder thy regenerate part from thriving; thy care must be by meditation to hunt them out of their lurking holes, and take them. Thy wounds which stink and are so unsavoury to God, must by serious consideration be searched and felt, before they can be healed. When thou art going to prayer, do as Jehu when he went to sacrifice to Baal, send out and f••ch•n all thy false Worshippers; those Enemies of the true God, that deny his supremacy, and bowed the knee to the World or the flesh, and then by an humble penitential confession, and self judging, cut them off. Who ever bewailed his sins, that did not know their sinfulness, or who ever was ashamed that did not see his own nakedness. When the Jews came to know that they were the betrayers and Murderers of the Lord Jesus, then they were pricked to the heart; O do that for thy self which God will do for many others, set thy sins in order before thine eyes, thine original and thine actual, thine omissions and commissions, thy personal and relative, thy secret and public, thy sins about natural, civil, or spiritual actions, thy sins under mercies and against afflictions. Say to thy conscience as Samuel to Jesse, Are all thy Sons here; Are all thy •ins here; if any be wanting to thy knowledge, cause it to be sent for, and brought, and sit not down to Sacrifice before it come; when this is done, put them all into their own colours, accent them with their several aggravations, consider what light, what love, what motions of Gods spirit, what ⟨p. 151⟩convictions of thy own spirit, they were committed against.
Meditate on thy sins; Thy duty in prayer is to Indict, Arraign, and Condemn, and Execute those Malefactors and Transgressors of the Royal Law, which can never be done till they are apprehended. If thou wilt kill those Foxes that spoil the ⟨p. 150⟩