A94156:796
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
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.
2. If the weakness of thy body do not hinder rise earlier on the Lords day then ordinary. When the Israelites were encompassing Jericho; on the seventh day, they rose early in the morning; and according to many Expositors it was on the Sabbath day the walls of Jericho fell down, Josh. 6.15. One main work which thou hast to do on a Lords day, is, to batter down the strong holds of sin, to conquer those Canaanites which would keep thee out of the promised land; do thou rise early for this end. He that riseth and setteth out early, goeth a considerable part of his way before others awake. Its sordid to lie lazing and to turn upon thy bed as a door on the hinges (and never the farther off) upon any day, but most sad and sinful on a Lords day.
2. If the weakness of thy body do not hinder rise earlier on the Lords day then ordinary. When the Israelites were encompassing Jericho; on the seventh day, they rose early in the morning; and according to many Expositors it was on the Sabbath day the walls of Jericho fell down, Josh. 6.15. One main work which thou hast to do on a Lords day, is, to batter down the strong holds of sin, to conquer those Canaanites which would keep thee out of the promised land; do thou rise early for this end. He that riseth and setteth out early, goeth a considerable part of his way before others awake. Its sordid to lie lazing and to turn upon thy bed as a door on the hinges (and never the farther off) upon any day, butmost sad and sinfull on a Lords day.
3. When thou first awakest, turn up thy heart to God in praise for his protection the night past, for the light of another day, especially of his own day; and in Prayer for the light of his countenance, and for assistance in every duty, and his direction throughout the day. As thou art rising, if no other more profitable Subject offer it self to thy thoughts, Meditate how the night is spent, the day is at hand; it concerneth thee therefore to ⟨p. 384⟩