A94156:945
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.
Those that put their hands to their mouths, when they drank water, were elected by God to fight his battles. Those that bowed down to the ground upon their knees, were rejected, Judg. 7.5, 6, 7. Those that sop their handful of pleasant ⟨p. 452⟩waters, are fitter for Gods work, then they that swill their bellyful; God taxeth them sharply, who make carnal delights the end of their lives, ye have lived in pleasure on earth, and been wanton. God alloweth us pleasures in our lives, but God doth not allow us to live in pleasures, Jam. 5.5. When our lives are nothing else but a diversion from one pleasure to another, we may fear our deaths will be the beginning of our pains. Nimrod, Ishmael, Esau, all vicious persons, are noted to be given up to such pastimes.
Those that put their hands to their mouthes, when they drank water, were elected by God to fight his bartels. Those that bowed down to the ground upon their knees, were rejected, Judg. 7.5, 6, 7. Those that soop their handful of pleasant ⟨p. 452⟩waters, are fitter for Gods work, then they that swill their belliful; God taxeth them sharply, who make carnal delights the end of their lives, ye have lived in pleasure on earth, and been wanton. God alloweth us pleasures in our lives, but God doth not allow us to live in pleasures, Jam. 5.5. When our lives are nothing else but a diversion from one pleasure to another, we may fear our deaths will be the beginning of our pains. Nimrod, Ishmael, Esau, all vicious persons, are noted to be given up to such pastimes.
The people of Tombutum in Afric, are said to spend their whole time in singing and dancing. Some persons, especially Gentlemen, spend their whole time in Hawking or Hunting, or gaming, of whom I may speak as Pliny to his Son (when he saw him spend his time in talking,