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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.
It is Gods precept (as well as thy privilege) to make Gods day thy delight, If thou call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, Isa. 58.13. Delights, Tremel reads it. Thy delicate things according to the Septuag. Whether thou art meditating on Gods works, or attending on Gods Word, which are the two principal duties of the day, they both call for delight and joy.
It is Gods precept (as well as thy priviledge) to make Gods day thy delight, If thou call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, Isa. 58.13. Delights, Tremel reads it. Thy delicate things according to the Septuag. Whether thou art meditating on Gods works, or attending on Gods Word, which are the two principal duties of the day, they both call for delight and joy.
If on this day of rest thou considerest the work of creation, and Gods rest, it behoveth thee to follow Davids pattern, Thou Lord hast made me glad through thy works, I will triumph in the works of thy hands, Psa. 92.4.
If thou considerest the work of Redemption, and Christs rest, surely out of the carcass of the Lion of the tribe of Judah, thou mayst get some Honey as may delight thy soul, and force thee to sing, My soul doth magnify the Lord, my spirit ⟨p. 367⟩rejoiceth in God my Saviour, Luk. 1.46, 47. The babe in the womb leapt for joy of him before he was born. The heavenly host sung at his birth, and wilt not thou at his second birth, his resurrection from the dead. O let the Primitive Christians salutations be thy consolation, The Lord is risen.