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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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Secondly, Possess thy soul in the morning with the greatness of thy privilege, in the enjoyment of a Sabbath, and such seasons of grace: Look upon thy work that day, as thy reward; thy duty on that day, as thy greatest Dignity. O what a favour, what an honour, what happiness doth God vouchsafe to thee, in affording thee such a golden season! David, though a King, the Head of the best people in the World, esteemed it an honour to be the lowest Officer in Gods House; to be a Doorkeeper ⟨p. 349⟩there, to fit at the threshold, as it is in the Hebrew, Psal. 84.10. If the Queen of Sheba could say, when she saw the wealth, and heard the wisdom of Solomon, Happy are these thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom; and blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the Throne of Israel; because the Lord loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee King, 1 Kings 10.8, 9. mayest not thou when thou beholdest the beautiful face of thy Saviour, in the glass of Ordinances; and hearest the sweet delightful voice of Jesus Christ, a greater then Solomon; when thou seest the delicate and plentiful provision, the feast of fat things, of wine on the lees well refined, which he makes for his people, upon better ground say, Blessed are thy servants that hear thee daily, watching at thy gates, waiting at the posts of thy doors, Prov. 8.34. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, they will be still praising thee: And blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the Throne of Israel; because he loved Israel for ever, therefore hath he made thee King.
Secondly, Possess thy soul in the morning with the greatness of thy priviledge, in the enjoyment of a Sabbath, and such seasons of grace: Look upon thy work that day, as thy reward; thy duty on that day, as thy greatest Dignity. O what a favour, what an honor, what happiness doth God vouchsafe to thee, in affording thee such a golden season! David, though a King, the Head of the best people in the World, esteemed it an honor to be the lowest Officer in Gods House; to be a Doorkeeper ⟨p. 349⟩