A94156:695
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.
I wish that I may prepare my heart to meet the God of Israel at this holy Ordinance; and to this end that I may be impartial in the search and examination ⟨p. 331⟩of my soul, whether I come short of the grace of God or no. 1Physicians judge sometimes of the inward parts by the tongue. The Roman Emperor Tiberius when one pretended to the Crown of a Kingdom, discovered him to be a counterfeit, by feeling his hands, and finding that they were not soft, as of a person tenderly bread, but hard as the hands of a Mechanic. I desire that both by my tongue and hand, by my words and works, I may know the state and condition of my heart. In special, my prayer is, 2that I may never fail to try my faith which is to the soul, what the natural heat is to the body, by virtue of which the nutritive faculty turneth the food into nourishment, but may make sure of an interest in the Vine, before I drink of the fruit thereof.
I wish that I may prepare my heart to meet the God of Israel at this holy Ordinance; and to this end that I may be impartial in the search and examination ⟨p. 331⟩of my soul, whether I come short of the grace of God or no. 1Physitians judge sometimes of the inward parts by the tongue. The Roman Emperor Tiberius when one pretended to the Crown of a Kingdom, discovered him to be a counterfeit, by feeling his hands, and finding that they were not soft, as of a person tenderly bread, but hard as the hands of a Mechanicke. I desire that both by my tongue and hand, by my words and works, I may know the state and condition of my heart. In special, my prayer is, 2that I may never fail to try my faith which is to the soul, what the natural heat is to the body, by vertue of which the nutritive faculty turneth the food into nourishment, but may make sure of an interest in the Vine, before I drink of the fruit thereof.