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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.
Ye denied the Holy One, &c.
And well it may, for it is the holy day of the holy Son of God: yea God the Father and God the Son have put off their own holiness upon it. Not essentially, for that is incommunicable.
Nor is it an Inherent holiness which they have Communicated to it,1 as the Saints of God have, who are made holy by a supernatural change of their natures. But the Sabbath is holy by divine Institution, by special dedication and consecration, God having hallowed this day above all other days in the week, by separating it from common and civil uses, and consecrating it to holy and religious ends and purposes, viz. to be a Sabbath of holy rest. But now
The Question Question. is, How may we thus call the Sabbath holy? or When may we be said truly to make it holy?