"If we are not acquainted with God, our Souls serve us to little purpose: It is a causing the Prince, the Soul, to go on Foot, and to serve the Body, which should be as a Servant; it is to let the Candle of the Lord burn out in waste."
— Janeway, James (1636?-1674)
Author
Date
1667, 1710
Metaphor
"If we are not acquainted with God, our Souls serve us to little purpose: It is a causing the Prince, the Soul, to go on Foot, and to serve the Body, which should be as a Servant; it is to let the Candle of the Lord burn out in waste."
Metaphor in Context
Man is a base, vile, worthless thing without Acquaintance with God. None are less esteemed among Men than they that want Wisdom to converse among Men. None are less esteemed before God, than they that know him not, that have not Acquaintance with him, to converse with him. Ye see wherein the Excellency and Worth of Man consisteth, and that if there be a Deformity, where ought to be our chiefest Beauty, the whole is accounted as a deformed Piece. It concerns us then to look that we keep our Glory unspotted, our Excellency in its due Value; that we do not degrade our selves below what God hath placed us in. If we are not acquainted with God, our Souls serve us to little purpose: It is a causing the Prince, the Soul, to go on Foot, and to serve the Body, which should be as a Servant; it is to let the Candle of the Lord burn out in waste.
(p. 28)
(p. 28)
Categories
Provenance
ECCO-TCP
Citation
At least 11 entries in ESTC (1667, 1669, 1671, 1673, 1677, 1685, 1710, 1730, 1760, 1761).
Text from Heaven Upon Earth: or, the Best Friend, in the Worst Times. Being a Legacy to London. By James Janeway. (London: Printed for Eben. Tracy, 1710.) <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Text from Heaven Upon Earth: or, the Best Friend, in the Worst Times. Being a Legacy to London. By James Janeway. (London: Printed for Eben. Tracy, 1710.) <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
11/10/2013
