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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.
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, Rom. 1.16. It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe, 1 Cor. 1.21. so also 2 Tim. 3.15. Application is the life both of preaching and hearing.
Faith is both the mouth to receive in, and the stomack to digest this spiritual food. It is worthy thy observation, how frequently the Holy Ghost attributeth the famous effects, and heroick acts of the Word, to this Commander in chief, under whose couragious 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, Rom. 1.16. It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe, 1 Cor. 1.21. so also 2 Tim. 3.15. Application is the life both of preaching and hearing.
If the Threatenings and Curses of the Law are preached, faith is to them as the powder to the bullet, causing them to make grievous havoc, and to do great execution upon the lusts of a man. Faith turneth those stones, as I may speak, into bread, and helpeth the Christian (like Sampson) to fetch meat out of the eater.