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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 21: How to exercise our selves to godliness on a Lords Day.
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.
The Priests were to wash in the Laver, when they went into the Tabernacle, and when they came near to the Altar to Minister upon pain of death, Exod. 30.19, 20. Signifying that to holy performances there is required holy preparation; Suitable to which is Davids speech, I will wash my hands in innocency, so will I compass thine Altar, Psa. 26.
The Priests were to wash in the Laver, when they went into the Tabernacle, and when they came near to the Altar to Minister upon pain of death, Exod. 30.19, 20. Signifying that to holy performances there is required holy prepartion; Sutable to which is Davids speech, I will wash my hands in innocency, so will I compass thine Altar, Psa. 26.
When the Temple was to be built, the stones were hewn, and the timber squared and fitted, before they were brought to the place where the Temple stood; there was neither axe, nor hammer, nor any use of them in the Temple: And what doth this speak, but that the Christian must be polished and prepared to be a spiritual Temple, an habitation for the God of Jacob, and also fitted for his worship, which was then in the Temple.
When the Temple was to be built, the stones were hewn, and the timber squared and fitted, before they were brought to the place where the Temple stood; there was neither ax, nor hammer, nor any use of them in the Temple: And what doth this speak, but that the Christian must be pollished and prepared to be a spiritual Temple, an habitation for the God of Jacob, and also fitted for his worship, which was then in the Temple.