A94156:402
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.
When the Ninevites prayed and turned from their evil ways, then God granted their requests, Jonah 3. The Israelites cried to God but in vain (he bid them go to the Gods whom they had served) till they put away the strange Gods from among them, then his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel, Judges 10.10, to 17. Reformation is a good usher to go before supplication. When the Duke of Saxony prepared War against the Bishop of Magdeburg, the Bishop hearing of it, falls to praying and reforming, saying, At ego curabo ecclesiam meam & Deus pugnabit pro me, I will take care to reform my Church, and God will take care to fight for me. When the Duke heard this, he Disbanded his forces with this speech, I am too weak for him that can engage God on his side.
When the Ninivites prayed and turned from their evil ways, then God granted their requests, Jonah 3. The Israelites cryed to God but in vain (he bid them go to the Gods whom they had served) till they put away the strange Gods from among them, then his soul was greived for the misery of Israel, Judges 10.10, to 17. Reformation is a good usher to go before supplication. When the Duke of Saxony prepared War against the Bishop of Magdenburg, the Bishop hearing of it, falls to praying and reforming, saying, At ego curabo ecclesiam meam & Deus pugnabit pro me, I will take care to reforme my Church, and God will take care to fight for me. When the Duke heard this, he Disbanded his forces with this speech, I am too weak for him that caningage God on his side.
Be sure Reader to put away iniquity far from thee, when thou art drawing near to the throne of grace, then shalt thou make thy prayer unto God, and he shall hear, Job 22.23, 27. Prayer is (as it were) a plaster to heal a man that is wounded. Now as a plaster to one pierced with an Arrow or Bullet