A94156:770
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.
They that come to duty merely for duty, know not what it means to meet with God, and therefore though they neither see his face nor hear his voice, yet are contented, like those that were born in some dark Dungeon, and never yet saw the Sun, they are well enough satisfied without it; but those who have seen it, and know that that light is ⟨p. 371⟩pleasant, if they look up to the heaven of Ordinances, & see not the Sun of righteousness, its no longer day with them; The true Disciples met together the first day of the week, and enjoying Jesus among them, rejoiced indeed; but they are only glad in duties, when they had seen the Lord, John 20.20. They were glad when they had seen the Lord.
They that come to duty meerly for duty, know not what it meanes to meet with God, and therefore though they neither see his face nor hear his voice, yet are contented, like those that were born in some dark Dungeon, and never yet saw the Sun, they are well enough satisfied without it; but those who have seen it, and know that that light is ⟨p. 371⟩pleasant, if they look up to the heaven of Ordinances, & see not the Sun of righteousness, its no longer day with them; The true Disciples met together the first day of the week, and enjoying Jesus among them, rejoyced indeed; but they are onely glad in duties, when they had seen the Lord, John 20.20. They were glad when they had seen the Lord.
Reader, when thou goest to the Ordinances of God, go to meet God in the Ordinances. As Moses, go up into the Mount of duties to converse with thy Maker. Go to view the beauty of his face when thou enquirest into his holy Temple. When thou goest to prayer, let it be in hope to get thy heart nearer to heaven.