A94156:854
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.
How many riotous rich men are there, that though they cannot eat and drink all with sobriety, will rather spoil it by gluttony and drunkenness, then let the poor have part with them; like Children who will rather crumble away their food, then impart any to their fellows! O how justly ⟨p. 414⟩was the rich man denied a drop in the other world, when he denied a crumb in this world; 1How many covetous Muck-worms, like Hogs are nourished only to be destroyed! they are good for nothing whilst they are alive; the Hog is neither good to draw as the Ox, nor to bear as the Horse, nor to clothe us as the Sheep, nor to give milk as the Cow, nor to keep the House as the Dog, but good only to be killed. Such are these scraping wretches, good for nothing, till they come to the Knife. Like barren trees they do but cumber the ground, and serve for no use till they are cut down for the unquenchable fire. And truly their hearts will never bewail him dead, whose bowels did not bless him alive. His life did not deserve a prayer, nor his death a tear, who laid out that to serve his pride, which God laid in to serve the poor.
How many riotous rich men are there, that though they cannot eat and drink all with sobriety, will rather spoil it by gluttony and drunkenness, then let the poor have part with them; like Children who will rather crumble away their food, then impart any to their fellows! O how justly ⟨p. 414⟩was the rich man denyed a drop in the other world, when he denyed a crum in this world; 1How many covetous Muck-worms, like Hogs are nourished onely to be destroyed! they are good for nothing whilst they are alive; the Hog is neither good to draw as the Ox, nor to bear as the Horse, nor to cloath us as the Sheep, nor to give milk as the Cow, nor to keep the House as the Dog, but good onely to be kild. Such are these scraping wretches, good for nothing, till they come to the Knife. Like barren trees they do but cumber the ground, and serve for no use till they are cut down for the unquenchable fire. And truely their hearts will never bewail him dead, whose bowels did not bless him alive. His life did not deserve a prayer, nor his death a tear, who laid out that to serve his pride, which God laid in to serve the poor.