A94156:856
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.
I have sometimes considered with my self and wondered why Nabal should be so exceeding churlish to David as not to spare of his superfluities to supply Davids necessities, when David had been so exceeding civil to him as to preserve his flocks in safety from the rage of hungry Soldiers; But when I marked well the story, I quickly found the cause of Nabals covetous carriage; He looked upon himself as Master of his estate, and not as Gods servant to improve it for his profit and praise; Shall I take my bread, and my water, and my flesh, and give it to men whom I know not whence they be? 1 Sam. 25.11. Had he but had so much grace as to have called it Gods bread, and Gods water, he would have disposed it according to Gods word, and not have denied a poor persecuted Saint; but because he counted it his own proper wealth, therefore it must be disposed according to his own pernicious will.
I have sometimes considered with my self and wondred why Nabal should be so exceeding churlish to David as not to spare of his superfluities to supply Davids necessities, when David had been so exceeding civil to him as to preserve his flocks in safety from the rage of hungry Souldiers; But when I marked well the story, I quickly found the cause of Nabals covetous carriage; He looked upon himself as Master of his estate, and not as Gods servant to improve it for his profit and praise; Shall I take my bread, and my water, and my flesh, and give it to men whom I know not whence they be? 1 Sam. 25.11. Had he but had so much grace as to have called it Gods bread, and Gods water, he would have disposed it according to Gods word, and not have denied a poor persecuted Saint; but because he counted it his own proper wealth, therefore it must be disposed according to his own pernicious will.