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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.
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.
4. Carnal pleasures leave a defilement on the spirits, and so do totally unfit the soul for communion with God. That Character, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, how fully doth it agree to such kind of profaners of the Sabbath? Pleasures draw off the mind from God, and justly cause God to withdraw from the soul; how totally doth this indispose to Sabbath work! In heaven they cease not day and night saying, holy, holy, holy, &c. Oh Christians never think of reconciling carnal pleasure and Communion with God together: it is impossible.
1[Not speaking thine own words.]
- 17th Obs.