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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
Treatise › Chapter 1: The Preface and Coherence of the Text.
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Something he must forbear, Refuse profane and old wives fables; 1If thou wouldst not swim down with the tide of those apostatising times, take heed of steering thy course by profane though ancient customs: Refuse them with scorn, reject them with anger; let thy spirit rise and thy stomach turn at the very sight of such sins. One way to prevent Apostasy, is to refuse ungrounded antiquity. The will of the Father of spirits, not the ways of the fathers of our flesh is to be the rule of our walking. It is well observed that God in no command but the second (which forbids his Worship in any way not appointed by his Word) threateneth to visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, because superstitious. Worshippers are of all men most strengthened by the Traditions of ⟨p. 5⟩their Fathers. They will tell us. Shall we be wiser then our Fathers. Now because they are resolved to sin with their Fathers, God is resolved they shall suffer for their Fathers. They that will follow their forefathers in sin, for ought I know must follow their forefathers to hell. If Timothy would not share in others declensions, he must forbear others traditions, Refuse profane and old wives fables.
Something he must forbear, Refuse prophane and old wives fables; 1If thou wouldst not swim down with the tide of those apostatising times, take heed of steering thy course by prophane though ancient customs: Refuse them with scorn, reject them with anger; let thy spirit rise and thy stomack turn at the very sight of such sins. One way to prevent Apostacy, is to refuse ungrounded antiquity. The will of the Father of spirits, not the ways of the fathers of our flesh is to be the rule of our walking. It is well observed that God in no command but the second (which forbids his Worship in any way not appointed by his Word) threatneth to visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, because superstitious. Worshippers are of all men most strengthned by the Traditions of ⟨p. 5⟩their Fathers. They will tell us. Shall we be wiser then our Fathers. Now because they are resolved to sin with their Fathers, God is resolved they shall suffer for their Fathers. They that will follow their forefathers in sin, for ought I know must follow their forefathers to hell. If Timothy would not share in others declensions, he must forbear others traditions, Refuse prophane and old wives fables.