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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 26: How to exercise our selves to Godliness in our Partiular Callings.
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. XXVI. How to exercise our selves to Godliness in our Particular Callings.
CHAP. XXVI. How to exercise our selves to Godliness in our Partiular Callings.
AS Religion must be our business in our Spiritual and Natural, 1so also in our Civil Actions, and particular Callings. The Heavenly Bodies have an influence, not only on men and women, but also on trees and plants: The holiness of a Saint must be operative, not only in his more nobler exercises, the Ordinances of God, but likewise in his earthly and inferior employments. Thy duty is Reader, to mind thy general in thy particular calling, and to drive a trade in Heaven, whilst thou art following thy trade on Earth: When thou art called to the Lord, thou art not called from thy labour; nay, as thou art a servant of Christ, thou art bound to be serviceable to thy Country, in some mental or manual Calling; but thy diligence therein must proceed from Conscience, not from Covetousness; from subjection to Gods Word, not from affection to thy wealth.
AS Religion must be our business in our Spiritual and Natural, 1so also in our Civil Actions, and particular Callings. The Heavenly Bodies have an influence, not onely on men and women, but also on trees and plants: The holiness of a Saint must be operative, not onely in his more nobler exercises, the Ordinances of God, but likewise in his earthly and inferior employments. Thy duty is Reader, to minde thy general in thy particular calling, and to drive a trade in Heaven, whilest thou art following thy trade on Earth: When thou art called to the Lord, thou art not called from thy labour; nay, as thou art a servant of Christ, thou art bound to be serviceable to thy Countrey, in some mental or manual Calling; but thy diligence therein must proceed from Conscience, not from Covetousness; from subjection to Gods Word, not from affection to thy wealth.