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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.
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, 1&c.? This is a lamentation, &c.
- 1Amos 8 5.