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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
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.
1. The thing forbidden, i. e. The doing of our pleasures on the Sabbath. God never appointed a Sabbath for the satisfaction of corrupt nature.
2. The manner of doing or forbearing it; and that is by turning away our foot from the Sabbath. The meaning of which phrase may be
(1.) Either a turning away of our mind and affections from each objects to which corrupt will do strongly incline us. The Affections are the feet of our souls.
(Secondly,) Or an awful fear of trespassing upon the Sabbath, for the satisfying of our carnal desires. As men that are afraid of trespassing upon some great mans free-hold, withdraw their foot, and turn another way, &c. The Sabbath is Gods Free-hold of which God saith as once to Moses, put thy shoes ⟨p. 133⟩from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. When we are tempted to any thing unworthy of the Sabbath, we should make a stop and turn away, that we may not transgress.