A94156:393
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 the God to whom thou art to pray, Consider his Majesty and greatness, Nehemiah calls him, The great and terrible God, Nehem. 1.5. He is so great, the Heavens and heavens of heavens cannot contain him, that the Earth, Heavens and Ocean, are in comparison of him as nothing; yea, less then nothing, and vanity. Think of his attributes and infinite excellencies. God is in Heaven and thou art on Earth, therefore let thy words be few, Eccles. 5.2. As God riseth in our thoughts self falleth. That Sun discovereth all our dust. O how are we ashamed of our drops, when we stand by this Ocean. This serious apprehension of thy distance will quicken thee to reverence. Gods greatness and mans vileness, are both arguments to make man humble and wary in the Worship of God. Couldst thou behold God in Heaven, in what Majesty he there appeareth on his Throne of glory, how his heavenly Courtiers veil their faces in his presence, lay their Crowns at his feet, and serve him, though joyfully, yet humbly and awfully, with what reverence and holy fear, wouldst thou go to prayer?
Meditate on the God to whom thou art to pray, Consider his Majesty and greatness, Nehemiah calls him, The great and terrible God, Nehem. 1.5. He is so great, the Heavens and heavens of heavens cannot contain him, that the Earth, Heavens and Ocean, are in comparison of him as nothing; yea, less then nothing, and vanity. Think of his attributes and infinite excellencies. God is in Heaven and thou art on Earth, therefore let thy words be few, Eccles. 5.2. As God riseth in our thoughts self falleth. That Sun discovereth all our dust. O how are we ashamed of our drops, when we stand by this Ocean. This serious apprehension of thy distance will quicken thee to reverence. Gods greatness and mans vileness, are both arguments to make man humble and wary in the Worship of God. Couldst thou behold God in Heaven, in what Majesty he there appeareth on his Throne of glory, how his heavenly Courtiers vail their faces in his presence, lay their Crowns at his feet, and serve him, though joyfully, yet humbly and awfully, with what reverence and holy fear, wouldst thou go to prayer?