"His major work, 'The Christian Man's Calling,' contained in Volumes 1 and 2 and part of Volume 3 (more than a thousand pages), masterfully explores the calling of the true believer in 'spiritual disciplines, personal lifestyle, relations in the home, marriage and daily work, in times of prosperity and adversity, in a hostile world, and at the time of death.' The editors say this work 'is one of the fullest and best exhibitions of the gospel in its application to the ordinary affairs of life.'" -- Joel Beeke and Randall Pederson in Meet the Puritans: With a Guide to Modern Reprints.

The Works of George Swinnock Vol I

Table of Contents

The Christian Man's Calling

• The Epistle Dedicatory
• To the Reader
• Chapter I
  • The preface and coherence of the text
• Chapter II
  • The opening of the text and the doctrine
• Chapter III
  • What godliness is
• Chapter IV
  • What it is for a man to make religion his business or to exercise himself to godliness
• Chapter V
  • Religion is the great end of man's creation
• Chapter VI
  • Religion is a work of the greatest weight. It is soul-work, it is God-work, it is eternity-work
• Chapter VII
  • The necessity of making religion our business; both in regard of the opposition a Christian meets with; and the multiplicity of business which lieth upon him
• Chapter VIII
  • A complaint that this trade is so dead and the world's trade so quick
• Chapter IX
  • The complaint continued that this calling is so much neglected when superstition and sin are embraced and diligently followed
• Chapter X
  • An exhortation to make God our business in the whole course of our lives
• Chapter XI
  • How a Christian may make religion his business in spiritual performances and religious actions
  • A good wish about religious duties in general wherein the former heads are epitomized
• Chapter XII
  • How a Christian may exercise himself to godliness in prayer. And first of prayer in general and of the antecedents to it
• Chapter XIII
  • Of the Concomitants of Prayer
• Chapter XIV
  • The subsequent duties after prayer
  • A good wish about prayer wherein all the forementioned particulars are epitomised
• Chapter XV
  • How a Christian may exercise himself to godliness in hearing and reading the word and of preparation for hearing
• Chapter XVI
  • Of the Christian's duty in hearing
• Chapter XVII
  • Of the Christian's duty after hearing
  • A good wish about the word wherein the former heads are epitomised
• Chapter XVIII
  • How a Christian may exercise himself to godliness in receiving the Lord's supper; and 1. Of the nature of that ordinance and preparation for it
• Chapter XIX
  • How a Christian may exercise himself to godliness at the table
• Chapter XX
  • What a Christian ought to do after a sacrament
  • A good wish about the Lord's supper wherein the former heads are epitomised
• Chapter XXI
  • How to exercise ourselves to godliness on a Lord's-day
• Chapter XXII
  • Brief directions for the sanctification of the Lord's day from morning to night
  • A good wish about the Lord's supper wherein the former heads are epitomised
  • A good wish to the Lord's-day
• Chapter XXIII
  • How a Christian may exercise himself to godliness in natural actions. And first in eating and drinking
• Chapter XXIV
  • How a Christian may exercise himself to godliness in his apparel and sleep
  • A good wish about natural actions wherein the former heads are epitomised
• Chapter XXV
  • How a Christian may exercise himself to godiness in his recreations and pleasures
    
• Chapter XXVI
  • How to exercise ourselves to godliness in our particular callings
  • A good wish about particular callings wherein the former heads are epitomised
• Chapter XXVII
  • How a Christian may exercise himself to godliness in his family as the fovernor thereof
  • A good wish about the government of a family wherein the former heads are epitomised

The Christian Man's Calling - Part II

• The Epistle Dedicatory
• The Preface and Epistle to the Reader
  • Wherein the right Christian is Characterised out of the general heads in the three parts of The Christian Man's Calling
  • Exercise thyself unto godliness
• Chapter I
  • How Christians may exercise themselves to godliness in the relations of parents
  • Motives
  • A good wish about the duty of a parent wherein the former heads are epitomised
• Chapter II
  • How Christians may make religion their business and exercise themselves to godliness in the relation of children
  • A good wish to the duties of a son or daughter in relation to their father and mother
• Chapter III
  • How Christians may exercise themselves to godliness in the relation of husbands and wives; and, first, Of the duties which concern them both in common. And a good wish from a pious pair
  • A good wish of a Christian couple wherein are epitomised the mutual duties of husband and wife
• Chapter IV
  • How Christians may exercise themselves to godliness in the relation of husbands with a good wish about the husband's duty
• Chapter V
  • How a Christian may exercise herself to godliness in the relation of a wife with a good wish about the duty of a wife
  • A good wish about the duties of a wife wherein the former particulars are epitomised
• OCR Index