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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.
Consider its excellency. It is the Word of God; though thou dalliest when men are speaking, yet surely it becomes thee to be serious when the great God is speaking. It is of divine inspiration; All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. The Ephesians cried up their Idol Diana, because it was the Image which fell down from Jupiter, Great is Diana of the Ephesians; O how shouldst ••ou prize ⟨p. 214⟩and prepare for the Word, when it came down from the great God: Men were but the Organs through which the Almighty God spoke; Non vox hominum sonat; It is the voice of God, and not of man. It is of Divine operation; I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, which is the power of God to salvation, Rom. 1.16. What wonders hath the great God wrought by his Word? He hath given eyes to the blind, feet to the lame, ears to the deaf, life to the dead, by his Word. What legions of Devils and lusts hath he unkennelled and cast out with his Word? 1Some write of the Weasel, that it doth aure concipere & ore parere, conceive in the ear. &c. He hath caused many a soul to hear and live by his Word; he hath awakened many a soul that was asleep in sin, by the voice of the Scriptures, and caused them to arise and work out their own salvations: Thousands of poor creatures, who were sinking into the bottomless Hell, have by Gods hand, stretched out in his Word, been delivered from going down to the pit, and lifted up to Heaven.
Consider its excellency. It is the Word of God; though thou dalliest when men are speaking, yet surely it becomes thee to be serious when the great God is speaking. It is of divine inspiration; All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. The Ephesians cryed up their Idol Diana, because it was the Image which fell down from Jupiter, Great is Diana of the Ephesians; O how shouldst ••ou prize ⟨p. 214⟩and prepare for the Word, when it came down from the great God: Men were but the Organs through which the Almighty God spoke; Non vox hominum sonat; It is the voyce of God, and not of man. It is of Divine operation; I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, which is the power of God to salvation,