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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.
When thou art at this Ordinance, look on ⟨p. 307⟩Christ as a Fountain running over with the Water of Life; and the Sacrament as a Channel cut out by Christ himself to convey Living Water to thy soul. Thou art diseased; go in this Ordinance to Christ as a Physician to heal thee. Thou art an indigent beggar go to Christs Door, I mean the Sacrament, with an expectation of a large dole. Do not sit down in despondency (as the Patriarchs in a scarcity of food;) but since thou hast heard there is corn in Egypt, bread enough in thy Fathers house, sufficiency of grace in Jesus Christ, go make haste to this son of Joseph, who is Lord of the Country, and hath the command of all the store houses in the Land, and will load thee with more then thou canst desire. Are thy wants many? he hath infinite wealth. Hast thou no Money to buy, no Merits to offer? why, he selleth without money, and without price: They that bring Money, have it returned back in their sacks, for he takes none: Whosoever will, may drink of the Water of Life freely, Revel. 22.17.
When thou art at this Ordinance, look on ⟨p. 307⟩Christ as a Fountain running over with the Water of Life; and the Sacrament as a Channel cut out by Christ himself to convey Living Water to thy soul. Thou art diseased; go in this Ordinance to Christ as a Physician to heal thee. Thou art an indigent beggar go to Christs Door, I mean the Sacrament, with an expectation of a large dole. Do not sit down in despondency (as the Patriarchs in a scarcity of food;) but since thou hast heard there is corn in Egypt, bread enough in thy Fathers house, sufficiency of grace in Jesus Christ, go make haste to this son of Joseph, who is Lord of the Countrey, and hath the command of all the store houses in the Land, and will load thee with more then thou canst desire. Are thy wants many? he hath infinite wealth. Hast thou no Money to buy, no Merits to offer? why, he selleth without money, and without price: They that bring Money, have it returned back in their sacks, for he takes none: Whosoever will, may drink of the Water of Life freely, Revel. 22.17.