A94156:957
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.
1. Recreation are unseasonable on a Lords day; Carnal pleasures must then vanish, and spiritual pleasures must take place: Our joy must be pure and heavenly on that day. It is an holy day, and therefore calls for holy delights; God inviteth the Saint on that day to his own table, provideth for him costly, curious food, and expecteth that he should come, and not bring along with him the worlds course fare. Observe the precept in the Evangelical prophet, If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable, & shall honour him, not finding thine own pleasures, then shalt thou delight thy self in the Lord. Is. 58.13, 14. Take notice, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; our ⟨p. 458⟩pleasures are such as flow from creatures; now the Wine which makes glad the heart of a Saint on a Sabbath, must be drawn from another Pipe. That which runs from the World, is too flat, low, and full of dregs, to be served in to the great King.
1. Recreation are unseasonable on a Lords day; Carnal pleasures must then vanish, and spiritual pleasures must take place: Our joy must be pure and heavenly on that day. It is an holy day, and therefore cals for holy delights; God inviteth the Saint on that day to his own table, provideth for him costly, curious food, and expecteth that he should come, and not bring along with him the worlds course fare. Observe the precept in the Evangelical prophet, If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable, & shal honor him, not finding thine own pleasures, then shalt thou delight thy self in the Lord. Is. 58.13, 14. Take notice, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; our ⟨p. 458⟩pleasures are such as flow from creatures; now the Wine which makes glad the heart of a Saint on a Sabbath, must be drawn from another Pipe. That which runs from the World, is too flat, low, and full of dregs, to be served in to the great King.