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The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian…The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian…
The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian catechism in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy labourer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian catechisme in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy laborer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...
London: printed by T. Mabb for Thomas Davies, 1659
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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.
The thirty eighth Lords day.
On Exod. 20. 8, 9, 10, 11. Verse 8. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy: 9. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy Gods in it thou shalt not do any work: thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day, Wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
On Exod. 20. 8, 9, 10, 11. Verse 8. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy: 9. Six dayes shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy Gods in it thou shalt not do any work: thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattel, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six dayes the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day, Wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
This fourth command, which is about the time of more solemn worship, is, explicated 1. generally, vers. 8. Remember, &c. 2. special, vers. 9, 10. that this is the seventh, or one of seven; whereunto is adjoined the duty about keeping this day. This duty consists of two parts, to wit, of rest, and of the Sanctification of that rest: the rest is a ceasing from all our works; and is illustrated from its causes, by a distribution; neither thou, nor thy son, &c. The sanctifying of this rest is consecrating, or holy application of it to Gods worship. And this sentence is not only proposed, but also confirmed, and that with a double reason; whereof 1. Is taken from a tacit comparison of the greater. God hath promised us six days for our works; and therefore by