A25478:567
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.
Fourth Duty is,
As we must call and count it glorious, so we must actually honour it or him, (it may be rendered both) and indeed when we honour this day we glorify God, ⟨p. 136⟩and we glorify God when we make him our end in honouring his day. Without both these we do take Gods Name in vain, and do but mock God, rather in pretending to keep a Sabbath, than glorify him. We must set up God in his own day and in his own Institution. And thus I have done with the opening of this blessed Model in the Duties of it. I should come now to the Privileges annexed, but sufficient to the day is the travel thereof.
As we must call and count it glorious, so we must actually honour it or him, (it may be rendred both) and indeed when we honour this day we glorifie God, ⟨p. 136⟩and we glorifie God when we make him our end in honouring his day. Without both these we do take Gods Name in vain, and do but mock God, rather in pretending to keep a Sabbath, than glorifie him. We must set up God in his own day and in his own Institution. And thus I have done with the opening of this blessed Model in the Duties of it. I should come now to the Priviledges annexed, but sufficient to the day is the travel thereof.
For the Improvement of this doctrinal Exposition, I shall do these two Things.