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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.
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There is no duty but requires some previous dispositi on. A little break-fast quickens the appetite to a good dinner; duty fits the heart for duty; Consider prayer. The Christian must be poor in spirit, that would prevail in prayer for spiritual riches. The vessel must be empty before it can be filled. O Lord, thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear, Psa. 10.17. for hearing; the weeds must be plucked up before the grain be thrown into the ground; Wherefore laying aside all malice and all guile and Hypocrisies, As new born born babes desire the sincere milk of the word, 1 Pet. 2.1, 2. In singing; the lungs must be good, the inwards clean, before the voice will be sweet and clear. O God, my heart is fixed, my heart is fixed, I will sing and give praise, Psa. 57.7. So for the Lords day, the Israelites had their preparation. It was the preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath, Mark. 15.42.
There is no duty but requires some previous dispositi on. A little break-fast quickens the appetite to a good dinner; duty fits the heart for duty; Consider prayer. The Christian must be poor in spirit, that would prevail in prayer for spiritual riches. The vessel must be empty before it can be fil'd. O Lord, thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear, Psa. 10.17. for hearing; the weeds must be pluckt up before the grain be thrown into the ground; Wherefore laying aside all malice and all guile and Hypocrisies, As new born born babes desire the sincere milk of the word, 1 Pet. 2.1, 2. In singing; the lungs must be good, the inwards clean, before the voice will be sweet and clear. O God, my heart is fixed, my heart is fixed, I will sing and give praise, Psa. 57.7. So for the Lords day, the Israelites had their preparation. It was the preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath,