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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.
And shalt call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, Honourable and shalt honour him. In these words also there be four branches or duties.
(1.) We must call the Sabbath a delight. (2.) We must call it holy, or the holy of the Lord. (3.) We must call it honourable or glorious. (4.) We must not only call it honourable, but must actually and really honour It or Him by a suitable deportment.
1. If we would sanctify the Sabbath acceptably, we must call the Sabbath a delight. Call] i. e. account it so; calling] it is an act of the judgment, or appreciative faculty, a Delight, or (as some render it) thy delights, we must reckon the Sabbath inter Delicias, as is said of Jerusalem, Lam. 1.7. she remembered all her pleasant things, surely her Sabbaths were some of those pleasant things; it is said Her enemies did mock at her Sabbaths, I, but she did mourn. They were her delightful things, whereupon her heart was: And so they must be to us. But we must also remember to take in with the Day, all the Ordinances and religious services and Duties of the day. They must not only be done spiritually, holily and Universally, but they must be done with delight and complacency, we must prefer them to our chiefest joy; yea the very approach of the Sabbath should be our delight: so have all the Saints and servants of God in all ages of the Church done; they have been to them the very joy and life of their souls, Psal. 122.1. I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord; our feet shall stand within thy gates O Jerusalem, I never was ••re affected with joy and gladness in all my life, then when I was wont to hear the people encouraging one another to assemble themselves to the public worship of God, in the house of God, on Gods day; O it did my heart good to hear with what alacrity and rejoicing they did provoke one another, come let us go to the house of the Lord, notably prophesied of in words at length,