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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.
Thy duty is to examine thy self in particular also of those graces, which are specially requisite in a Communicant. Of thy knowledge to discern the Lords body. There is a competency of knowledge needful if thou wouldst receive acceptably. Dost thou know the threefold estate of man? His Innocency, Apostasy, and Recovery. What a pure piece he was, how holy when he came out of Gods hands! what a miserable polluted creature he hath made himself by disobeying God, and hearkening ⟨p. 271⟩to the Tempter! what a glorious remedy God hath provided to restore man to his primitive purity! Dost thou know God as he discovereth himself in his works, but especially as he is represented in the Glass of his word? Dost thou know Jesus Christ, his two Natures, his three Offices, how he executeth them, both in his estate of humiliation, and exaltation? Dost thou know the nature and end of the Lords Supper?
Thy duty is to examine thy self in particular also of those graces, which are specially requisite in a Communicant. Of thy knowledge to discern the Lords body. There is a competency of knowledge needful if thou wouldst receive acceptably. Dost thou know the threefold estate of man? His Innocency, Apostacy, and Recovery. What a pure piece he was, how holy when he came out of Gods hands! what a miserable polluted creature he hath made himself by disobeying God, and harkning ⟨p. 271⟩to the Tempter! what a glorious remedy God hath provided to restore man to his primitive purity! Dost thou know God as he discovereth himself in his works, but especially as he is represented in the Glass of his word? Dost thou know Jesus Christ, his two Natures, his three Offices, how he executeth them, both in his estate of humiliation, and exaltation? Dost thou know the nature and end of the Lords Supper?