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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.
Well might the French Protestants call their place of public meeting Paradise: Well might David cry out, Psal. 84.1, 2. & 27.4. How amiable are thy Tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts! At the Tabernacle God did meet David: Who can tell what joyful greeting there was at that holy meeting; what sweet kisses, what loving embraces God gave his soul?
Well might the French Protestants call their place of publique meeting Paradise: Well might David cry out, Psal. 84.1, 2. & 27.4. How amiable are thy Tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts! At the Tabernacle God did meet David: Who can tell what joyful greeting there was at that holy meeting; what sweet kisses, what loving embraces God gave his soul?
As the Ordinances are Heaven in a glass; so the Lords Day is Heaven in a map: This is to be valued at an high rate, because therein we enjoy all the means of communion with God, in the highest degree and measure, without interruption. The Hebrews call thee Week days profane days, but this is an holy, pious day. The Greeks call them working days, but this is a day of sweet rest. Other days are common and ordinary handmaids, but this is fitly termed by the Jews, the Queen of days: Many Daughters have done wisely, but thou hast excelled them all: Many days, as Lecture-days, Fast-days, Thanksgiving days, have done virtuously, have done valiantly; but thou, O Queen of days, hast excelled ⟨p. 351⟩them all: They, like Saul, have slain their thousands of Spiritual Enemies; but thou hast slain, as David, thy ten thousands: They, like the people, must worship afar off, but thou, like Moses, mayest draw near, go up into the mount: There is none like thee, whom God knoweth face to face. Well may other days say to thee, as the people to David, Thou art worth ten thousand of us: Well might the good Soul run to meet thee in the morning, and salute thee with Veni Spousa mea, Come my sweet Spouse, thee I have loved, for thee I have longed, and thou art my dearest delight.