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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. That Gods people might sanctify him: so ver. 41. I will be sanctified in you: so Levit. 10.3. I will be sanctified in them that draw nigh me; God sanctifieth us when he makes us holy, we sanctify God when we acknowledge him to be holy. God sanctifieth us when he makes us what we are not, we sanctify him when we acknowledge him to be what he is. These be glorious ends; but,
2. That Gods people might sanctifie him: so ver. 41. I will be sanctified in you: so Levit. 10.3. I will be sanctified in them that draw nigh me; God sanctifieth us when he makes us holy, we sanctifie God when we acknowledge him to be holy. God sanctifieth us when he makes us what we are not, we sanctifie him when we acknowledge him to be what he is. These be glorious ends; but,
3. Another glorious end for which God made the Sabbath, was, that the Sabbath on Earth might be a type and figure of the Sabbath in Heaven. That in this initial and imperfect Sabbath on earth, we might see (though in a glass darkly) what the Saints and Angels are doing in Heaven without ceasing; that we might peep into Heaven before we come thither, and long and wait for that eternal Sabbath. A day wherein God bows the Heaven and comes down, and offers himself in ways of sweet and friendly Communion with his people, Exod. 20. v. 23.
Fourth Duty is,