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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.
The heart is the metal of the bell, the tongue is but the clapper: When the metal of the bell is right and good (as silver) such will the sound be; if the metal of the bell be cracked, or lead, the sound will soon discover it to a judicious ear. God can see the diseases and spots of the heart upon the tongue: O it is dangerous to do, as some Princes with their neighbours, who set on foot a Treaty of peace for their own ends, but resolve beforehand that it shall never be brought to any period. As Jacob said to his mother, If I dissemble, my Father will find me out, and I shall meet with a curse instead of a blessing: So say I to thee, if thou dissemblest in prayer, thy God will find thee out, and thou wilt meet with a curse, a blow, instead of a blessing. There is no going to God, as Jeroboam's wife thought to go to the Prophet, in a disguise.
The heart is the mettal of the bell, the tongue is but the clapper: When the mettal of the bell is right and good (as silver) such will the sound be; if the mettal of the bell be crackt, or lead, the sound will soon discover it to a judicious ear. God can see the diseases and spots of the heart upon the tongue: O it is dangerous to do, as some Princes with their neighbours, who set on foot a Treaty of peace for their own ends, but resolve beforehand that it shall never be brought to any period. As Jacob said to his mother, If I dissemble, my Father will finde me out, and I shall meet with a curse instead of a blessing: So say I to thee, if thou dissemblest in prayer, thy God will finde thee out, and thou wilt meet with a curse, a blow, instead of a blessing. There is no going to God, as Jeroboams wife thought to go to the Prophet, in a disguise.
Under the Law, 1the inward parts were only to be offered to God in Sacrifice: The skin belonged to the Priests; whence Origen inferreth, That truth in the inward parts, is that which is most pleasing in a Sacrifice. Indeed others compass God about with lies, and therefore highly provoke him: They did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongue, for their heart was not right with him,