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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.
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Truly Reader, thy care had need to be great about thy calling, lest it cause thy ruin: More dye by meat then by poison. By lawful things many perish; Worldly things will court thee, that they may kill thee: They that dig deep into the bowels of the earth, have not seldom been stifled with the damps that arise thence. These things are so subject to defile and destroy us, that God made a Law that they should not be used, before they were purified, Numb. 31.22, 23. Some are destroyed by those houses which were made to defend them; like Saul, they fall on those swords which should have been for their safety. Particular Callings were designed for our good; but how often do they prove our grief? Are there not those, who like Corah and his company, are swallowed up alive of earth, and consumed! Pliny observes, 1that in Phoselis the hill Chimaera burneth night and day: The fire, saith he, is kept burning by water, but quenched by earth: The earth of particular Vocations, hath sometime put out that fire of devotion, which the water of affliction could not do.
Truly Reader, thy care had need to be great about thy calling, lest it cause thy ruine: More dye by meat then by poyson. By lawful things many perish; Worldly things will court thee, that they may kill thee: They that dig deep into the bowels of the earth, have not seldom been stifled with the damps that arise thence. These things are so subject to defile and destroy us, that God made a Law that they should not be used, before they were purified, Numb. 31.22, 23. Some are destroyed by those houses which were made to defend them; like Saul, they fall on those swords which should have been for their safety. Particular Callings were designed for our good; but how often do they prove our grief? Are there not those, who like Corah and his company, are swallowed up alive of earth, and consumed! Pliny observes, 1that in Phoselis the hill Chimaera burneth night and day: The fire, saith he, is kept burning by water, but quenched by earth: The earth of particular Vocations, hath sometime put out that fire of devotion, which the water of affliction could not do.