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

And then there are Gods pleasures ways, words and thoughts, i. e. of Gods command, and such as lye in a direct tendency to the worship and service of God in public, private, or secret; and these only we may and must do, and mind upon the Sabbath; if we mix any of the Devils, or our own pleasures and profits with Gods, we pollute the holy things of God, and profane his Sabbath.

And then there are Gods pleasures ways, words and thoughts, i. e. of Gods command, and such as lye in a direct tendency to the worship and service of God in publique, private, or secret; and these only we may and must do, and mind upon the Sabbath; if we mix any of the Devils, or our own pleasures and profits with Gods, we pollute the holy things of God, and profane his Sabbath.

This is the sum of what time will give me leave to say upon the Negative part of this Model: only before I dismiss it, let me add this short note of observation, that if what hath been spoken even on this negative part be the mind and will of God concerning the sanctifying of the Sabbath, then may the generality of Christians lye down in the dust, and smiting upon their thigh, with brinish tears upon their cheeks, confess (with a Pious Honourable Lady upon her dying Bed) O I never kept a Sabbath in all my life.

The Lord teach us so to lay this sin to heart that God may never lay it to our charge.