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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.
A good hearer is said to eat the Word: Thy words were found by me, and I did eat them, Jer. 15.16. Eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled, Prov. 9.5. It is not the ⟨p. 227⟩bread in the cupboard of the Bible, or on the table of a Sermon, which will nourish thy soul, unless it be by application of it to thy self, eaten and taken down into thy stomach: The glass of wine in thine hand, will not make thy heart glad; the precious promises in thine ears will not rejoice thee, they must by application be drunk down, then they will refresh and comfort thy Conscience.
A good hearer is said to eat the Word: Thy words were found by me, and I did eat them, Jer. 15.16. Eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled, Prov. 9.5. It is not the ⟨p. 227⟩bread in the cupboard of the Bible, or on the table of a Sermon, which will nourish thy soul, unless it be by application of it to thy self, eaten and taken down into thy stomack: The glass of wine in thine hand, will not make thy heart glad; the precious promises in thine ears will not rejoyce thee, they must by application be drunk down, then they will refresh and comfort thy Conscience.
Faith is both the mouth to receive in, and the stomach to digest this spiritual food. It is worthy thy observation, how frequently the Holy Ghost attributeth the famous effects, and heroic acts of the Word, to this Commander in chief, under whose courageous and wise conduct it warreth. The Word fighteth boldly, and worketh miraculously under Faiths banner: The Gospel of Christ is the power of God to salvation to them that believe,