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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.
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2. Faith must look up to Christ for grace: Look up to Christ as a Treasury of grace, for the supply of all thy necessities, and put thy hand of faith into this Treasury, and thou shalt take out unsearchable riches. Austin puts the question, how a Christian may put out a long arm to reach Christ in Heaven? and answers, Creed & tenuisti; Believe, and thou hast taken hold of him. Christ is a full breast, faith is the mouth which draweth and sucketh the breast, and getteth spiritual nourishment out of it. The blessed Saviour is a precious and deep mine; but faith is the instrument whereby we dig the gold out of it. As the Spanish Ambassador said of his Masters Treasury, in comparison of that Treasury of S. Mark in Venice, In this, among other things, my Masters Treasury differeth from yours, in that my Masters Treasury (alluding to his Indian Mines) hath no bottom, as I see yours to have: For thy comfort know, that the riches in Christ are inexhaustible, and his bags are bottomless: He can supply all thy needs, Philip. 4.13.
2. Faith must look up to Christ for grace: Look up to Christ as a Treasury of grace, for the supply of all thy necessities, and put thy hand of faith into this Treasury, and thou shalt take out unsearchable riches. Austin puts the question, how a Christian may put out a long arm to reach Christ in Heaven? and answers, Crede & tenuisti; Believe, and thou hast taken hold of him. Christ is a full breast, faith is the mouth which draweth and sucketh the breast, and getteth spiritual nourishment out of it. The blessed Saviour is a precious and deep mine; but faith is the instrument whereby we dig the gold out of it. As the Spanish Ambassador said of his Masters Treasury, in comparison of that Treasury of S. Mark in Venice, In this, among other things, my Masters Treasury differeth from yours, in that my Masters Treasury (alluding to his Indian Mines) hath no bottom, as I see yours to have: For thy comfort know, that the riches in Christ are inexhaustible, and his bags are bottomless: He can supply all thy needs, Philip. 4.13.