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

3. And were it a Jewish name (indeed) is not the Jewish name [Sabbath] better than the Heathenish-name [Sunday]? The name which Heathenish Idolaters gave it in their Dedication of that day to the Created Sun? Notwithstanding consult their Calendars, Writings and Languages, and you can meet with no other name or notion, but Sunday all over. At this we have more cause to be offended, than they have at the notion of a Sabbath.

3. And were it a Jewish name (indeed) is not the Jewish name [Sabbath] better than the Heathenish-name [Sunday]? The name which Heathenish Idolaters gave it in their Dedication of that day to the Created Sun? Notwithstanding consult their Calenders, Writings and Languages, and you can meet with no other name or notion, but Sunday all over. At this we have more cause to be offended, than they have at the notion of a Sabbath.

As for the vulgar sort of people; it is the thing which offends them more than the name; not the Rest so much as the Nature of the Rest, is that which they dislike; were it a Carding Rest, a Gaming Rest, a Dancing Rest, such an one as the Israelites once celebrated in the wilderness, wherein they did eat and drink, and rose up to play: (such an one for all the world as the Popish Devotion celebrates) after Mass and Even Song, (as they call it) pipe and dance, and then to the Ale-house or Tavern; such a Rest would gratify the sensual world of carnal Christians: but for an holy rest, a rest to be spent in Public, Domestic, and Secret duties of Religion; Reading the Scriptures, praying, singing of Psalms, Hearing the word preached, repeating at home what they heard in public, Catechising their families, Meditation, &c. These things do not please the unregenerate part, but men are ready to murmur, as they did of old, what a weariness is it, and when will the Sabbath be over, ¹&c.? This is a lamentation, &c.

As for the vulgar sort of people; it is the thing which offends them more than the name; not the Rest so much as the Nature of the Rest, is that which they dislike; were it a Carding Rest, a Gaming Rest, a Dancing Rest, such an one as the Israelites once celebrated in the wilderness, wherein they did eat and drink, and rose up to play: (such an one for all the world as the Popish Devotion celebrates) after Mass and Even Song, (as they call it) pipe and dance, and then to the Ale-house or Tavern; such a Rest would gratifie the sensual world of carnal Christians: but for an holy rest, a rest to be spent in Publick, Domestick, and Secret duties of Religion; Reading the Scriptures, praying, singing of Psalms, Hearing the word preach't, repeating at home what they heard in publique, Catechising their families, Meditation, &c. These things do not please the unregenerate part, but men are ready to murmur, as they did of old, what a weariness is it, and when will the Sabbath be over,