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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.
The first is, we must call the Sabbath a Delight, or (the pronoun supplied) thy Delight.
Call it so, we are not to account the Sabbath as an ordinary and common thing, but to put a very high and precious valuation upon it, as, delightful, the holy of the Lord, and of honourable renown.
A delight, thy delight, we must call it so, account it so, or make it so.
The Sabbath must be a delectable thing to us; a nest of sweetnesses, the delight of our eyes, the joy and rejoicing of our hearts; a day, wherein all our comforts and pleasures do concentre, all our fresh springs must be in it. And this I humbly conceive the Holy Ghost doth most significantly oppose unto the pleasures forbidden before in this same verse.