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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.
O Reader, if thou would have heavenly music at the feast, mind this holy mourning; when Josephs brethren were sensible of their sin in selling him, then and not till then he made them a feast. Jesus Christ made the best wine that ever was, of water. The Bee (Naturalists tell us) gather the best honey of the bitterest herb; God hath solid joy for the broken bones, the contrite spirit; cast up the accounts betwixt God and thy soul, see how infinitely thou art indebted to his Majesty, Abhor thy self, with Job, Bemoan thy self, with Ephraim, and judge thy self (as Paul enjoineth his Corinthians, in relation to this ordinance) as ever thou wouldst have God at the Sacrament to seal thee a general acquittance.
O Reader, if thou would have heavenly musick at the feast, mind this holy mourning; when Josephs brethren were sensible of their sin in selling him, then and not till then he made them a feast. Jesus Christ made the best wine that ever was, of water. The Bee (Naturalists tell us) gather the best hony of the bitterest hearb; God hath solid joy for the broken bones, the contrite spirit; cast up the accounts betwixt God and thy soul, see how infinitely thou art indebted to his Majesty, Abhor thy self, with Job, Bemoan thy self, with Ephraim, and judge thy self (as Paul enjoyneth his Corinthians, in relation to this ordinance) as ever thou wouldst have God at the Sacrament to seal thee a general acquittance.
Sacrament-days are sealing days; God doth then seal his love and stamp his Image more fairly on the soul; now if thy heart be melted into godly sorrow, and made thereby like soft wax, thou wilt be fit for this seal and stamp. The Hart in grassing kills and eats a Serpent which so inflames her, that she can have no rest till she drink of the water brooks. Repentance will make thee feel the scorching nature ⟨p. 279⟩of that Serpent, sin, and thereby long for and relish the water of life.
Sacrament-days are sealing days; God doth then seal his love and stamp his Image more fairly on the soul; now if thy heart be melted into godly sorrow, and made thereby like soft wax, thou wilt be fit for this seal and stamp. The Hart in grasing kills and eates a Serpent whith so inflames her, that she can have no rest till she drink of the water brooks. Repentance will make thee feel the scorching nature