A94156:673
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 20: What a Christian ought to do after a Sacrament.
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.
1. Thankfulness. After such a Banquet as this is, thou mayst well give thanks. The Jews at their Passover, did sing the hundred and thirteenth Psalm with the five following Psalms, which they called the Great Hallelujah. A Christian should in every thing and at all times give thanks; but at a Sacrament, the great Hallelujah must be sung; then God must have great thanks, then we must with our souls bless the Lord, and with all within us praise his holy name. O Reader, call upon thy self as Barak and Deborah did; Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, Barak, utter a song and lead captivity captive thou son of Abinoam, Judg. 5. Awake my love, awake my joy, utter a song; a feast ⟨p. 319⟩is made for laughter, and wine rejoiceth the heart of man. Friend, is not this a rare feast? where is thy cheerful face? Is not here good wine, a cup of Nectar indeed, the blood of the Son of God? what mirth, what music hast thou to this Banquet of Wines? Anciently it was the beginning and ending of Letters, Gaudete in Domino, Rejoyce in the Lord. It will be an excellent conclusion of this Ordinance, to rejoice in the Lord. O let thy soul magnify the Lord, and thy spirit rejoice in God thy Saviour, Luk. 1.46, 47.
1. Thankefulness. After such a Banquet as this is, thou mayst well give thanks. The Jews at their Passover, did sing the hundred and thirteenth Psalm with the five following Psalmes, which they called the Great Hallelujah. A Christian should in every thing and at all times give thanks; but at a Sacrament, the great Hallelujah must be sung; then God must have great thanks, then we must with our souls bless the Lord, and with all within us paise his holy name. O Reader, call upon thy self as Barak and Deborah did; Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, Barak, utter a song and lead captivity captive thou son of Abinoam, Judg. 5. Awake my love, awake my joy, utter a song; a feast ⟨p. 319⟩is made for laughter, and wine rejoyceth the heart of man. Friend, is not this a rare feast? where is thy chearful face? Is not here good wine, a cup of Nectar indeed, the blood of the Son of God? what mirth, what musick hast thou to this Banquet of Wines? Antiently it was the beginning and ending of Letters, Gaudete in Domino, Rejoyce in the Lord. It will be an excellent conclusion of this Ordinance, to rejoyce in the Lord. O let thy soul magnisie the Lord, and thy spirit rejoyce in God thy Saviour,