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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
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.
Some indeed are Debtors to their bellies, they pinch and pine them with penury, not allowing them what nature requires, whose Gold is their God. They are worse then Cannibals, eating their own flesh. He that is cruel to his flesh, troubleth his own house, Prov. 11.17. But the bellies of most, are debtors to them, receiving much more then is fit or due, as if they had been born to bow down to, and worship their bellies.
Some indeed are Debtours to their bellies, they pinch and pine them with penury, not allowing them what nature requires, whose Gold is their God. They are worse then Cannibals, eating their own flesh. He that is cruel to his flesh, troubleth his own house, Prov. 11.17. But the bellies of most, are debtours to them, receiving much more then is fit or due, as if they had been born to bow down to, and worship their bellies.
If Esau had the Title of profane for selling his birth-right for a mess of pottage when he was hungry, Heb. 12. How profane then are they that sell their estates, and reason, and health, and souls, and Saviour and salvation, and all for a a moments brutish pleasure, intemperate eating or drinking.
If Esau had the Title of prophane for selling his birth-right for a mess of pottage when he was hungry, Heb. 12. How prophane then are they that sell their estates, and reason, and health, and souls, and Saviour and salvation, and all for a a moments brutish pleasure, intemperate eating or drinking.