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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.
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.
Our Lord Jesus commandeth his Disciples not to be curious about their diet; Whatsoever is set before you eat, Luk. 9. If it be wholesome, though it be not toot-some, accept it. The Turks will drink no Wine, because Mahomet their false Prophet forbids it. Reader, be thou temperate both in regard of the quantity and quality of thy food, because the blessed Jesus; the true Prophet of his Church commandeth it.
Our Lord Jesus commandeth his Disciples not to be curious about their diet; Whatsoever is set before you eat, Luk. 9. If it be wholesome, though it be not toot-some, accept it. The Turks will drink no Wine, because Mahomet their false Prophet fordids it. Reader, be thou temperate both in regard of the quantity and quality of thy food, because the blessed Jesus; the true Prophet of his Church commandeth it.