A94156:799
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.
5. After thy secret duties thou mayst (if nature require) refresh thy body with convenient food. Thy God alloweth thee to cherish, though not to overcharge thy outward man, I shall speak to thy carriage about eating and drinking in the twenty third chapter, and therefore omit it here.1
- 1Vide Family duties in Cap. 27
6. In the next place it will be fit that thou call thy family together and enter upon family duties. Namely to read the word of God, to call upon the name of God, and to sing to the praise of God.
6. In the next place it will be fit that thou call thy family together and enter upon family duties. Namely to read the word of God, to call upon the name of God, and to sing to the prayse of God.
7. Let as many of thy family as can conv•••enny be spared accompany thee to public Ordinances. ⟨p. 386⟩1Remember the command, Thou, thy Son, thy daughter, thy man-servant and maid-servant, and all within thy gate. Do not pamper their bodies, and starve the souls of thy household; It is Recorded of Dr. Chaterton, Mr. of Emmanuel College, that he never caused any of his Servants to stay at home on a Lords day, barely to dress meat; be able to say with Cornelius, (who feared the Lord with all his house) we are all here present before God.