A94156:778
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.
Reader, 1as thy duty is to rest the whole day from wickedness and worldly work, so also to employ the whole day in Gods Worship, be either praying, or reading, or hearing, or singing, or meditating, or discoursing with others about the Works or Word of God: Be always taken up, either with public, 2private or secret duties. In the 92. Psalm, that Psalm for the Sabbath, v. 1, and 3. we are exhorted to show forth Gods loving kindness in the morning, and his faithfulness at evening. Now we know that in Scripture sense the morning and the evening are the whole day; The whole day is Gods by ordination, and why should not it be his by observation; God hath dedicated this day wholly to hsi own Worship, now every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord. Lev. 27.28.
Reader, 1as thy duty is to rest the whole day from wickedness and worldly work, so also to imploy the whole day in Gods Worship, be either praying, or reading, or hearing, or singing, or meditating, or discoursing with others about the Works or Word of God: Be always taken up, either with publique, 2private or secret duties. In the 92. Psalm, that Psalm for the Sabbath, v. 1, and 3. we are exhorted to shew forth Gods loving kindness in the morning, and his faithfulness at evening. Now we know that in Scripture sense the morning and the evening are the whole day; The whole day is Gods by ordination, and why should not it be his by observation; God hath dedicated this day wholly to hsi own Worship, now every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord. Lev. 27.28.
- 1Debet totus dies festivus à Christiano expendi in operibus bonis Grostead in precept.
- 2Hoc sensu loquitur propheta, Sià primo mane incipimuslauda. re dum, continuandas esse ejus laudesad ultimam noctis partem. Calvin in loc.