A25478:538
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.
(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.
(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 shooes ⟨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.
3. The third thing in the General is the reason, why we should be so afraid of encroaching upon Sabbath-time, implied in this clause, upon my holy day.
3. The third thing in the General is the reason, why we should be so afraid of incroaching upon Sabbath-time, implied in this clause, upon my holy day.
Wherein are two considerations.