A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

The Sabbath is polluted by words as well as by works. Christ will judge men in the great day for their words: and by them will he either justify thee for sanctifying the Sabbath, or condemn thee for profaning of it. I am afraid it is the great controversy God hath with this nation: not only profane, but even professors, are all guilty of not sanctifying the name and Day of God in their talk and discourses upon the Sabbath Day. If Jesus Christ should join himself to our Tables, ¹or lesser companies, as he did with the two Disciples going to Emmaus, and ask us, what manner of communications are these which ye have one with another; how might the question fill our faces with paleness and strike us speechless?

The Sabbath is polluted by words as well as by works. Christ will judge men in the great day for their words: and by them will he either justifie thee for sanctifying the Sabbath, or condemn thee for profaning of it. I am afraid it is the great controversie God hath with this nation: not only profane, but even professors, are all guilty of not sanctifying the name and Day of God in their talk and discourses upon the Sabbath Day. If Jesus Christ should join himself to our Tables, ¹or lesser companies, as he did with the two Disciples going to Emaus, and ask us, what manner of communications are these which ye have one with another; how might the question fill our faces with paleness and strike us speechless?

1. 1Luke 24.15, 16, 17.

Alas who can tell what day it is by mens discourses and conferences one with another! how vain, foolish, unprofitable and unsavoury is most mens speech all the day! no jest so idle, no story so common and fruitless, but will pass at our tables and in our private conference.