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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.
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2. Sports and pleasures are as inconsistent with a Sabbath frame of spirit, as the grossest labour in our calling: yea I'll undertake that a man in his particular calling may more easily get good thoughts of God and of eternal life, &c. than a person that is drenched and immersed in vain delights and sports. In such cases men are usually so intent upon their sports and pastimes, that it is not easy to edge in a good serious thought in the midst of sensual delights.1 A man in his carnal pleasures is like the soul in the body. All in all; and all in every part of their pleasing vanities; pleasures do fox and intoxicate the brain, when as labour is apt to make them serious and considerate.
2. Sports and pleasures are as inconsistent with a Sabbath frame of spirit, as the grossest labour in our calling: yea i'le undertake that a man in his particular calling may more easily get good thoughts of God and of eternal life, &c. than a person that is drench't and immers't in vain delights and sports. In such cases men are usually so intent upon their sports and pastimes, that it is not easie to edge in a good serious thought in the midst of sensual delights.1 A man in his carnal pleasures is like the soul in the body. All in all; and all in every part of their pleasing vanities; pleasures do fox and intoxicate the brain, when as labour is apt to make them serious and considerate.
- 1Tota in toto, & tota in quâli•et part.Tota in toto, & tota in quâli•et parte.
3. Reason, Pleasures are as great diversions from the duty of a Sabbath, as labours. It is conceived Adam should have had a Sabbath in Paradise had he persisted in innocence, why? not because his dressing of the garden would have wearied him, (for weariness is the fruit of sin) but his dressing of the garden would have been a diversion from attending his Creator in the Ordinances of a Sabbath.