A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

Such I say hath been the care and love of God to his Church to this day,¹ that it never was without a Sabbath, unless it were when the want of a Sabbath was the Punishment of sinful neglect and obstinate violation of the Sabbath. And this care God used upon a twofold account.

1. 1Lam. 2.6.

1. Upon the account of his own Sovereignty. Sc. that by reserving one day in seven for his own immediate worship he might be actually acknowledged as the great Sovereign Lord of our selves and of our time.

1. Upon the account of his own Soveraignty. Sc. that by reserving one day in seven for his own immediate worship he might be actually acknowledged as the great Soveraign Lord of our selves and of our time.

The Sabbath is as the first fruits among the Jews; whereby we do not only entitle God to the whole harvest, but whereby the whole lump and mass is sanctified to us.

The Sabbath is as the first fruits among the Jews; whereby we do not only intitle God to the whole harvest, but whereby the whole lump and mass is sanctified to us.