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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. Then we call the Sabbath holy, when we sanctify our selves for the Sabbath, and for the Ordinances of the Sabbath.
2. Then we call the Sabbath holy, when we sanctifie our selves for the Sabbath, and for the Ordinances of the Sabbath.
If we have no care what frame of spirit we bring with us into the day, nor with what frame we drive thorough it, we are far from calling the Sabbath, the holy of the Lord. For their sakes (saith our Lord) I Sanctify my self; 1I Sanctify my self, i. e. I separate my self wholly for the work of a Redeemer. If the Lord Jesus separated himself for our sakes, should not we much more separate our selves for his. Then we believe Christ to be our holy Redeemer, when we labour to be an holy people, Holy as he is holy; and then we have high venerable thoughts of the holiness of the Sabbath, when we labour to be holy as the day is holy, an unsuitable spirit is a profanation of the Sabbath. The Day holy, but we unholy, what a reproach is this?
If we have no care what frame of spirit we bring with us into the day, nor with what frame we drive thorough it, we are far from calling the Sabbath, the holy of the Lord. For their sakes (saith our Lord) I Sanctifie my self; 1I Sanctifie my self, i. e. I separate my self wholly for the work of a Redeemer. If the Lord Jesus separated himself for our sakes, should not we much more separate our selves for his. Then we believe Christ to be our holy Redeemer, when we labour to be an holy people, Holy as he is holy; and then we have high venerable thoughts of the holiness of the Sabbath, when we labour to be holy as the day is holy, an unsuitable spirit is a profanation of the Sabbath. The Day holy, but we unholy, what a reproach is this?
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