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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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but God himself saith it is the way to ruin it; He that is greedy of gain, troubleth his own house, Pro. 15.27. Whilst he thinks to feather his nest, he doth indeed fire it. It is an observation of the house of Desmond in Ireland, That Maurice the first Earl of that family, raised it by injustice; and by injustice Girald the last Earl ruined it. The crafty Fox in the Fable hugged himself, that he had cozened the Crow of his break-fast, but when he found himself poisoned therewith, he wished it out of his belly. Unjust gain ⟨p. 474⟩like the Italian buttered Sponge, may go down glib, but it swelleth in the body, and never cometh away till it hath ruined the party, Such men spin a fair thread to strangle themselves with. The getting of treasures by a lying tongue, is a vanity tossed too and fro of them that seek death, Pro. 21.6, 7. Cornelius a Lapide hath a pretty fable, wherein he compareth men unjust in their dealings to Spiders, the righteous to Bees; The Spider upbraided the Bee for going up and down for honey; Thou stayest at home, saith the Bee, but in thy working losest thy life; 1How often is that Latin Proverb fulfilled? The burden of Salt, returneth to the place whence it came. The occasion of which was the falling of Salt by the wrack of a Ship into the Sea, the place whence it came. God often sendeth some to squeeze those Muck worms when they have sucked themselves full. Deceitful dealing (as an huge heap of Ice by the Sun) by the scorching fire of Gods wrath dissolveth into nothing. As the Partridge sitteth on eggs and hat cheth them not, so he that getteth riches, and not by right; shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool, Jer. 17.11.
but God himself saith it is the way to ruine it; He that is greedy of gain, troubleth his own house, Pro. 15.27. Whilst he thinks to feather his nest, he doth indeed fire it. It is an observation of the house of Desmond in Ireland, That Maurice the first Earl of that family, raised it by injustice; and by injustice Girald the last Earl ruined it. The crafty Fox in the Fable hugd himself, that he had cozend the Crow of his break-fast, but when he found himself poisoned therewith, he wisht it out of his belly. Unjust gain