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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 19: How a Christian may exercise himself to godliness at the Table.
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.
not in a Royal Palace, but in a place where Beggars and Beasts are entertained, a Stable; he was no sooner born, but sought after to be butchered. He fled for his life in his very swaddling clouts, and was an early Martyr indeed. When he grew up, though he was of ability to have swayed the Sceptre of all the Empires in the World, to have instructed the greatest Potentates and Counsellors in the mysteries of wisdom and knowledge; though to him Adam and Solomon, yea and Angels themselves were fools; yet he lived privately with his supposed Father many years, and suffered his deity to be hid as light in a Dark Lantern near thirty years, save that once it darted a little out, when at twelve years of age he disputed, which confuted the great Rabbis of the Jews, Luk. 2.46.
not in a Royal Palace, but in a place where Beggers and Beasts are entertained, a Stable; he was no sooner born, but sought after to be butchered. He fled for his life in his very swadling clouts, and was an early Martyr indeed. When he grew up, though he was of ability to have sway'd the Scepter of all the Empires in the World, to have instructed the greatest Potentates and Counsellours in the mysteries of wisdom and knowledge; though to him Adam and Solomon, yea and Angels themselves were fools; yet he lived privately with his supposed Father many years, and suffered his deity to be hid as light in a Dark Lanthorn neer thirty years, save that once it darted a little out, when at twelve years of age he disputed, which confuted the great Rabbies of the Jews, Luk. 2.46.
When he entered upon his public Ministry, he is no sooner ascended the Stage, but all the Devils in Hell appear against him, and he is forced to fight hand to hand with them for forty days together, and when they left him, they did not take their leave, but departed only for a season, Luk. 4.13. His whole life was a living death. How poor was he, when he was fain to work a miracle to pay his Tax! The Foxes had holes, and the Birds of the Air had Nests, but the Son of man had not where to lay his head, though he were heir of all things,