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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. Our early stirring up of our selves to bid the Sabbath welcome to our hearts and habitations. 1So the holy Prophet, O God, thou art my God, early will I seek thee. The earliness of his devotions, shows the delight that he took in them; truly the great indulgence that most Christians allow themselves in their bed on the Lords day, is an infallible argument how little delight they take in Gods day, or in the Ordinances thereof.
2. Our early stirring up of our selves to bid the Sabbath welcom to our hearts and habitations. 1So the holy Prophet, O God, thou art my God, early will I seek thee. The earliness of his devotions, shews the delight that he took in them; truly the great indulgence that most Christians allow themselves in their bed on the Lords day, is an infallible argument how little delight they take in Gods day, or in the Ordinances thereof.
3. Then we may be said to call the Sabbath our delight, when we are universally careful to sanctify God in all the institutions of the day, both public, private and secret:
3. Then we may be said to call the Sabbath our delight, when we are universally careful to sanctifie God in all the institutions of the day, both publique, private and secret: