A25478:602
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.
And this is a rule which holds in the exposition of all the Commandments of the Law, and of the Gospel. Cease to do evil, and learn to do good.
The negative and affirmative precept have such a mutual relation one to another, that one doth infer the other, and take away one and you destroy the other. It is impossible to do what is commanded without due care of avoiding what is prohibited: neither can that man rationally pretend to keep the Sabbath, that lieth a bed all day, because he doth not work; not he that followeth his servile labour, because possibly he may perform some religious duties.
What God hath joined together let no man put asunder.
Carnal sports and pleasures are as great a profanation of the Sabbath, as the most servile labour and drudgery in the world. Dicing and carding, do as much violate the Law of the Sabbath, as digging and carting; playing as much as ploughing; dancing and morris-games, as much as working in the smiths-forge, ⟨p. 140⟩