A94156:52
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
To the reader: TO THE READER, ESPECIALLY Of the Parish of Great-Kimbel in the County of Bucks.
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 of omission of duties in the Closet. The Amalekite had not eaten in three days who was nigh death. It is observed that the places under the Line, are not so hot, as some places at a further distance, because, though they have the beams of the sun falling perpendicularly to cause a more intense heat, yet the nights there being longer then in some other parts, the days are not so hot. When the nights are long, the days are very cold; when there are long omissions of duties, godliness will cool. Ah, didst thou but know what many a Saint hath gained by that hidden calling, I am confident thou wouldst mind it, what ever thou didst omit. Remember how often and earnestly I have urged thee to this duty. It is thy privilege that though thou canst not every day have the showers of public Ordinances, yet mayst thou have the watering-pots of secret duties to make thy soul fruitful. Let no day pass without thy morning and evening Sacrifices. Fasting is bad for some bodies, I am ⟨image 19⟩sure to fast from spiritual food is exceeding injurious to thy soul.
Take heed of omission of duties in the Closet. The Amalekite had not eaten in three days who was nigh death. It is observed that the places under the Line, are not so hot, as some places at a further distance, because, though they have the beams of the sun falling perpendicularly to cause a more intense heat, yet the nights there being longer then in some other parts, the days are not so hot. When the nights are long, the days are very cold; when there are long omissions of duties, godliness will cool. Ah, didst thou but know what many a Saint hath gained by that hidden calling, I am confident thou wouldst mind it, what ever thou didst omit. Remember how often and earnestly I have urged thee to this duty. It is thy priviledge that though thou canst not every day have the showres of publick Ordinances, yet mayst thou have the watering-pots of secret duties to make thy soul fruitful. Let no day pass without thy morning and evening Sacrifices. Fasting is bad for some bodies, I am ⟨image 19⟩sure to fast from spiritual food is exceeding injurious to thy soul.