A94156:531
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.
If the Precepts and Commands of the Law are preached, Faith is the eye to see the Equity in them, and the Excellency of them, and ⟨p. 228⟩Faith is the hand to put them into practice.
If the Promises and Comforts of the Gospel are preached, Faith is to them as Induction to a Minister, it gives him actual possession of them, it makes them his own. Faith in the Threatenings, causeth Humiliation; Faith in the Precepts causeth Subjection; and Faith in the Promises worketh Consolation.
If the Promises and Comforts of the Gospel are preached, Faith is to them as Induction to a Minister, it gives him actual possession of them, it makes them his own. Faith in the Threatnings, causeth Humiliation; Faith in the Precepts causeth Subjection; and Faith in the Promises worketh Consolation.
If at any time thou goest from hearing dead and undone, thou mayest say to Faith, as Martha to Christ, If thou hadst been here, my soul had not dyed. The unbeliever, like a man in a swoon, shuts his mouth against those life-recalling Cordials which are before him in the Gospel. Other sins wound the soul, but Unbelief, like Joab, strikes under the fifth rib, and kills outright.