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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.
2. We are forbidden the finding of our own pleasure: which is the same forbidden in the General, ut supra, only with this difference, that there (as I conceive) [pleasure] is taken more largely: so, whatsoever is pleasing to unregenerate nature and inclinations, whether they be bodily labour or Carnal recreations, profit, or pleasures, sports, or the works of our Callings, we must not find them; that is, we must be so far from making provision for the satisfying of the sensual Appetite, that we must not so much as own them, when we meet them, we must not suffer our selves to be tempted, or ensnared by them; we must be to them [when we meet them] as if we had neither eyes, nor ears, nor hands, nor feet, we must not desire them, or have any thing to do with them.
2. We are forbidden the finding of our own pleasure: which is the same forbidden in the General, ut supra, only with this difference, that there (as I conceive) [pleasure] is taken more largely: so, whatsoever is pleasing to unregenerate nature and inclinations, whether they be bodily labour or Carnal recreations, profit, or pleasures, sports, or the works of our Callings, we must not find them; that is, we must be so far from making provision for the satisfying of the sensual Appetite, that we must not so much as own them, when we meet them, we must not suffer our selves to be tempted, or insnared by them; we must be to them [when we meet them] as if we had neither eyes, nor ears, nor hands, nor feet, we must not desire them, or have any thing to do with them.
3. We are forbidden the speaking of our own words, that is, our own impertinent discourses, worldly contrivances, or in the Apostles language, All filthiness, 1and foolish talking and jesting, or any thing, that is not convenient: Christians should not only consult what is lawful; but what is decent, and ornamental to the Sabbath. None of these things must be so much as named on our days, much less on Gods days.
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