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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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Thy meditation of Gods works, as it will give honour to God, so it will not a little further thy spiritual good; When David considered the work of creation, 1he falls presently upon exalting God, and debasing himself. When I consider the Heavens, the work of thy hands, the Moon and the Stars which thou hast made, O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth, and thy glory above the Heavens; there he sets God up high; but then be casts himself down low, What is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man, that thou dost thus visit him!
Thy meditation of Gods works, as it will give honour to God, so it will not a little further thy spiritual good; When David considered the work of creation, 1he falls presently upon exalting God, and debasing himself. When I consider the Heavens, the work of thy hands, the Moon and the Stars which thou hast made, O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth, and thy glory above the Heavens; there he sets God up high; but then be casts himself downlow, What is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man, that thou dost thus visit him!
- 1•a. 8.1. to 4
When thine heart is like Wax hardened, bring it by meditation to the warm beams of this Sun, and they will soften it.
So when David considered the work of Redemption, how doth he magnify God, and vilify himself. What am I! and what is my Fathers House, that thou hast brought me up hitherto! and yet this was a small thing in thine eyes O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servants house for a great while to come,