A94156:512
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.
Reader, before thou hearest, Remember it is Gods prerogative to open thine ear: Mine ear hast thou bored, Psal. 40.6. There is a thick film in thine ears naturally, which hindereth thine hearing; thine ears are stopped, that Sermons can have no passage: Now God alone can with his Seringer dissolve the wax congealed there, and break through the skin, whereby thou mayest come to hear, and live. ⟨p. 219⟩Remember, that the seeing eye, and the hearing ear, the Lord hath made them both, Prov. 20.12. Therefore entreat him to open thine eyes, that thou mayst see his comely face, in the Glass of the word, and to open thine ears that thou mayst hear his lovely voice in the word, and to open thine heart that thou mayst receive grace from him through the word. Say as David, Show me thy way O Lord, teach me thy paths. Make me to understand the way of thy precepts, so shall I talk of thy wondrous works, Psa. 25.4. Psa. 119.27. And be not discouraged either at the mysteriousness of the word, or at thine own dullness; for he that made the lock, can help thee to a key that will fit all its wards.
Reader, before thou hearest, Remember it is Gods prerogative to open thine ear: Mine ear hast thou boared, Psal. 40.6. There is a thick film in thine ears naturally, which hindreth thine hearing; thine ears are stopt, that Sermons can have no passage: Now God alone can with his Seringer dissolve the wax congealed there, and break through the skin, whereby thou mayest come to hear, and live. ⟨p. 219⟩Remember, that the seeing eye, and the hearing ear, the Lord hath made them both, Prov. 20.12. Therefore intreat him to open thine eyes, that thou mayst see his comely face, in the Glass of the word, and to open thine ears that thou mayst hear his lovely voice in the word, and to open thine heart that thou mayst receive grace from him through the word. Say as David, Shew me thy way O Lord, teach me thy paths. Make me to understand the way of thy precepts, so shall I talk of thy wondrous works,