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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.
Pliny reporteth of one Oressianus, 1who from a little piece of ground got much wealth, and more then his neighbours could from a greater quantity, whereupon he was accused of Witchcraft; but to defend himself, he brought forth his servants and instruments of labour on the day of trial, and said, Veneficia mea Quirites haec sunt: These, O Romans, are all my Witchcrafts; I say not to my Servants, Go and do this; but, Come let us do this and that, and so the work goeth on. The keys that men keep ⟨p. 470⟩in their Pockets and use every day, wax brighter and brighter; but if they be laid aside, and hung by the Walls they soon grow rusty. Students who are given to a sedentary life, often waste in their strength, when others whose time is spent in bodily labour, increase in strength; In all labour, saith the wise man, there is profit.
Pliny reporteth of one Oressianus, 1who from a little piece of ground got much wealth, and more then his neighbours could from a greater quantity, whereupon he was accused of Witchcraft; but to defend himself, he brought forth his servants and instruments of labour on the day of tryal, and said, Veneficia mea Quirites haec sunt: These, O Romans, are all my Witchcrafts; I say not to my Servants, Go and do this; but, Come let us do this and that, and so the work goeth on. The keys that men keep ⟨p. 470⟩in their Pockets and use every day, wax brighter and brighter; but if they be laid aside, and hung by the Wals they soon grow rusty. Students who are given to a sedentary life, often waste in their strength, when others whose time is spent in bodily labour, increase in strength; In all labour, saith the wise man, there is profit.
- 1Lib. 18. cap. 6