A94156:412
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.
Take heed Reader, of exceeding the limits of prayer: those Beasts which will not be kept within ⟨p. 165⟩their bounds, are soonest caught, and killed. Israel had their wish to their woeful cost, when they cried out, Would God we had dyed in the Wilderness, Numb. 14.27.28, 29. Be not unwise, but understanding what the Will of the Lord is, Ephes. 5.17. Indeed the Christian may have any thing of God, if he do but in his prayer secure Gods honour; but he that exalteth his own will (not minding Gods) like a proud beggar, will be a chooser, and therefore he shall be sent away either without an Alms, or else with the Serpents which he desired, instead of the fish which he denied. The Christians Charter is wide enough, he hath no cause to desire its enlargement: And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us, John 1.5, and 14.
Take heed Reader, of exceeding the limits of prayer: those Beasts which will not be kept within ⟨p. 165⟩their bounds, are soonest caught, and kild. Israel had their wish to their woful cost, when they cryed out, Would God we had dyed in the Wilderness, Numb. 14.27.28, 29. Be not unwise, but understanding what the Will of the Lord is, Ephes. 5.17. Indeed the Christian may have any thing of God, if he do but in his prayer secure Gods honour; but he that exalteth his own will (not minding Gods) like a proud begger, will be a chuser, and therefore he shall be sent away either without an Alms, or else with the Serpents which he desired, instead of the fish which he denyed. The Christians Charter is wide enough, he hath no cause to defire its inlargement: And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us,