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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
Sermon 6 › Rules drawn from the Negative part of this model.
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. Observe,1 this day God was pleased to honour with the title of a Sabbath as both here, and in the fourth Commandment, which signifies rest, because on this day, both God the Father and God the Son respectively,2 did rest from ⟨p. 138⟩their own proper work: and by their precept and pattern command it and commend it for a stated rest to the Church of God for ever.
- 1Rule or N te•
- 2Gen. 2.2.
What the reason therefore is why some learned men of our generation should be so exceedingly offended at that name [Sabbath] that they cannot so much as hear it with patience, is to me a wonder even to astonishment; And while they are so much offended at the name, the vulgar sort of Christians, are (thereby I am afraid) as much offended at the thing.
As to the first of these, I have heard some say they like it not, because it is Jewish; but to that we reply,