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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.
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2. Practice; when the Preacher hath done in the Pulpit, the Hearer must begin in his practice; He heareth a Sermon best who practiseth it most, what one saith of Psa. 119. I may say of the whole Scriptures, They are verba vivenda, non legenda, words to be loved, more then to be read or heard. A Christians life should be a legible comment on Gods Law. The strokes in Music must answer to the notes and rules set down in the Lesson.
2. Practice; when the Preacher hath done in the Pulpit, the Hearer must begin in his practice; He heareth a Sermon best who practiseth it most, what one saith of Psa. 119. I may say of the whole Scriptures, They are verba vivenda, non legenda, words to be loved, more then to be read or heard. A Christians life should be a legible comment on Gods Law. The strokes in Musick must answer to the notes and rules set down in the Lesson.
It is observable that the blood was to be sprinkled on Aaron's right ear, right thumb, and great toe of his right foot, Exod. 29.20. the first did note his right hearing the Word, the second and third his working according to it, and walking in it. The doing, not the hearing or reading Christian, goeth away with the blessing; And he said, yea rather, blessed are they that hear the Word of God and keep it, Luke 11.28. The occasion of the expression is considerable; one of Christs hearers, having tasted, was so taken with the lusciousness of his Doctrine, that she could not before all the company forbear commending the tree for the fruits sake, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked; Yea rather (saith Christ) Blessed are they that hear the Word of God and keep it; In which words he doth not deny her assertion, but her inference, or the foundation of it. Mary though happy, yet was not so happy in bearing the essential, as in keeping the Written