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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.
Obj. But who is able to spend the whole 24 hours in religious duties without any intermission?
Obj. But vvho is able to spend the vvhole 24 hours in religious duties without any intermission?
Answ. None, neither is it required, for neither do we our selves on our days, spend the whole 24 hours in the employments of our particular places and callings, but we allow our selves a sleeping time, and a time for preparing our food, and a time for eating and drinking, and other refreshments of nature, both for our selves and our relations; and so doth God also, provided always,
Answ. None, neither is it required, for neither do we our selves on our days, spend the whole 24 hours in the imployments of our particular places and callings, but vve allow our selves a sleeping time, and a time for preparing our food, and a time for eating and drinking, and other refreshments of nature, both for our selves and our relations; and so doth God also, provided always,
1. That we be not overlavish and prodigal in our indulgences to the flesh, and the concernments of the outward man, that we exceed not our limits of Christian sobriety and moderation.
1. That vve be not overlavish and prodigal in our indulgences to the flesh, and the concernments of the outward man, that vve exceed not our limits of Christian sobriety and moderation.