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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.
A Good Christian if business crowd in upon him so much, that he cannot wait on them, and Worship ⟨p. 482⟩God daily in his Closet and Family as he ought, will rather like a wise Mariner (when the ship is overburdened) cast some overboard, then endanger the loss of all and himself too. Times of earing and harvest were very busy times with the Israelites, yet then God would not allow them to make bold with him, Exod. 32.21.
A Good Christian if business crowd in upon him so much, that he cannot wait on them, and Worship ⟨p. 482⟩God daily in his Closet and Family as he ought, will rather like a wise Marriner (when the ship is overburdened) cast some overboard, then endanger the loss of all and himself too. Times of earing and harvest were very busie times with the Israelites, yet then God would not allow them to make bold with him, Exod. 32.21.
He that is a faithful and wise Steward, will give every one their portion, their meat in due season; as he will give his body and his family their portion every day, so he will give his God and his soul their portion every day; surely he is not faithful who attendeth the lackey all day, and neglecteth his Lord; much worse is he who feedeth his flesh and starveth his spirit. Reader take notice that there is a time for all things; as there are ploughing times, so there are praying times every day; as there is daily time for thy shop, so also for thy Closet. When the Jewish daily sacrifice was intermitted as in the days of Antiochus, it was the abomination of desolation
He that is a faithful and wise Steward, will give every one their portion, their meat in due season; as he will give his body and his family their portion every day, so he will give his God and his soul their portion every day; surely he is not faithful who atteneth the lacquey all day, and neglecteth his Lord; much worse is he who feedeth his flesh and starveth his spirit. Reader take notice that there is a time for all things; as there are plowing times, so there are praying times every day; as there is daily time for thy shop, so also for thy Closet. When the Jewish daily sacrifice was intermitted as in the days of Antiochus, it was the abomination of desolation