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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
Treatise › Chapter 17: Of the Christians duty after Hearing.
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.
Ptolemy King of Egypt was at great cost and charge to have the Law of the Jews translated by the Septuagint into Greek. 1Thou hast the Old and New Testament both at a cheap and easy ra•e: Thou mayest read thy Fathers Will, in thy Mother Tongue; thou hast in it a suitable Medicine for every Malady; seasonable succour in all thy Miseries; the costliest Cordials, and choicest comforts, without Money, and without Price; and surely all this deserveth thanks and praise.
Ptolomy King of Egypt was at great cost and charge to have the Law of the Jews translated by the Septuagint into Greek. 1Thou hast the Old and New Testament both at a cheap and easie ra•e: Thou mayest read thy Fathers Will, in thy Mother Tongue; thou hast in it a suitable Medicine for every Malady; seasonable succour in all thy Miseries; the costliest Cordials, and choicest comforts, without Money, and without Price; and surely all this deserveth thanks and praise.
- 1Euseb. Hist. lib 5. cap. 8.
Didst thou but know the misery of those places and persons who want the Word, surely thy ⟨p. 238⟩heart could not but be affected with thy mercy in the enjoyment of the word. It is sometimes described by Famine; I will send a famine, not of bread and water, but of hearing the Word of the Lord, Amos 4. How dreadful are the concomitants and consequents of Famine! what shrivelled cheeks, hollow eyes, pale visages, fainting hearts, and trembling limbs, have men in a famine! they seem rather like walking Ghosts, and moving carcasses, then living creatures. The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth, for thirst; the young child asketh bread, and no man breaketh it unto them. Their visage is blacker then a coal, they are not known in the streets, their skin cleaveth to their bones, it is withered, it is become like a stick. The hands of the pitiful Women, have sodden their own children, they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people,