A94156:592
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.
And truly Friend, if after such warning as God gives thee in this head, thou shouldst dare to receive unworthily, thou wouldst find it hereafter to thine unspeakable hurt: As Reuben told his Brethren, when they were in distress, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore behold his blood is required, Gen. 42.22. So, if thou now darest to approach the Lords Table, in thy sinful unregenerate estate, in thy filth and pollution, when thou comest to lie under some smart rod, or on thy dying bed, or at least in the other World, Conscience will fly in the face, Did I not speak unto thee, saying, Do not sin against the holy Child Jesus, and thou wouldst not hear? therefore behold his blood is required at thy hands! O Friend, Friend, what wilt thou do in such an hour! If on him who slew Cain, vengeance should be taken sevenfold; what vengeance shall be taken on him who slayeth Jesus Christ? How dreadful will thy perdition be, if the only Saviour be thine Accuser, and that blood which alone can procure thy pardon, shall cry for thine eternal punishment!
And truly Friend, if after such warning as God gives thee in this head, thou shouldst dare to receive unworthily, thou wouldst finde it hereafter to thine unspeakable hurt: As Reuben told his Brethren, when they were in distress, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore behold his blood is required, Gen. 42.22. So, if thou now darest to approach the Lords Table, in thy sinful unregenerate estate, in thy filth and pollution, when thou comest to lie under some smart rod, or on thy dying bed, or at least in the other World, Conscience will fly in the face, Did I not speak unto thee, saying, Do not sin against the holy Childe Jesus, and thou wouldst not hear? therefore behold his blood is required at thy hands! O Friend, Friend, what wilt thou do in such an hour! If on him who slew Cain, vengeance should be taken sevenfold; what vengeance shall be taken on him who slayeth Jesus Christ? How dreadful will thy perdition be, if the onely Saviour be thine Accuser, and that blood which alone can procure thy pardon, shall cry for thine eternal punishment!