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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.
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,
1. Not the Jews, but the God of the Jews gave it that name here and elsewhere, and
2. The notion of a Sabbath signifies no more but Rest; and is Rest Jewish? Oh that men would look into their hearts to see whether the reason of this disgust is not more latent there.