A94156:96
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 2: The opening of the Text and the Doctrine.
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.
CHAP. II. The opening of the Text and the Doctrine.
2. Timothy is to be considered as a member of Christ, or in his general calling; and so this Exhortation belongs to every Christian.
2. TImothy is to be considered as a member of Christ, or in his general calling; and so this Exhortation belongs to every Christian.
In it we may observe these three parts.
1. The act, Exercise. 2. The subject of that act, Thy self. 3. The object about which it was to be conversant, Unto godliness; Exercise thy self unto godliness.
1. The act, Exercise. 2. The subject of that act, Thy self. 3. The object about which it was to be conversant, Ʋnto godliness; Exercise thy self unto godliness.
I shall briefly open the terms in the Text, and then lay down the Doctrinal truth.