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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.
Mark Reader, what an Engine is here to screw thee up to the greatest attention to the Word which is possible? It is like strong physic to a person exceeding sick, which either mends them, or ends them. Think thus with thy self, I am going to hear that Word which will not be in vain, but will either kill me, or cure me; this Sword of the Spirit is sharp and keen; if it doth not defend me, it will destroy me: O it is bad jesting with such edged tools! How sad will it be for me to find death about the lips of Christ, to fall into Hell with a stumble at the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven? How exceedingly am I concerned to set my heart to all the words which I shall hear this day? for it is not a vain thing, but it is for my life, Deut. 32.46, 47.
Mark Reader, what an Engine is here to screw thee up to the greatest attention to the Word which is possible? It is like strong physick to a person exceeding sick, which either mends them, or ends them. Think thus with thy self, I am going to hear that Word which will not be in vain, but will either kill me, or cure me; this Sword of the Spirit is sharp and keen; if it doth not defend me, it will destroy me: O it is bad jesting with such edged tools! How sad will it be for me to finde death about the lips of Christ, to fall into Hell with a stumble at the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven? How exceedingly am I concerned to set my heart to all the words which I shall hear this day? for it is not a vain thing, but it is for my life, Deut. 32.46, 47.
Urge thy soul in earnest with these particulars. As Elisha stretching himself upon the young dead child, at last got life and quickening into it; so thou forcing and stretching, as it were, these things upon thy heart, mayst quicken it, how dull and dead soever it is.
Urge thy soul in earnest with these particulars. As Elisha stretching himself upon the young dead child, at last got life and quickning into it; so thou forcing and stretching, as it were, these things upon thy heart, mayst quicken it, how dull and dead soever it is.