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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.
Sc. Honourable.
If thou call it, or make it, or keep it as an Honourable day, Heb. Mecubbar, which signifieth honourable or glorious. The Duty implied is, we must keep the Sabbath, as the Honourable, Glorious Day of Jehovah.
Truly glorious things are spoken of this Honourable Day. The Jews were wont to call it the Queen of Days; the week-days they called profane days, but the Sabbath after Gods example here they called Holy: My Holy Day saith God, it's Gods peculiar. One of ours (now translated into his glorious rest) honours it thus, calling it, The Map of heaven, the golden spot of the week, 1the market-day of the soul, the day-break of eternal brightness, the Queen of days, the blessed amongst days, the cream of time, the Epitome of eternity, Heaven in a glass, the first-fruits of an everlasting and blessed Harvest, and much more to that purpose. The week-days are (as it were) the back-parts of the week, made to carry burdens; a mere Servant or Slave made to do the drudgery of the humane life. The Sabbath is the face, the seat of Majesty which God hath made to look upward, and to contemplate the glory of the Heavens and of the maker thereof.
Truly glorious things are spoken of this Honourable Day. The Jews were wont to call it the Queen of Days; the week-days they called prophane days, but the Sabbath after Gods example here they called Holy: My Holy Day saith God, it's Gods peculiar. One of ours (now translated into his glorious rest) honours it thus, calling it, The Map of heaven, the golden spot of the week, 1the market-day of the soul, the day-break of eternal brightness, the Queen of days, the blessed amongst days, the cream of time, the Epitome of eternity, Heaven in a glass, the first-fruits of an everlasting and blessed Harvest, and much more to that purpose. The week-days are (as it were) the back-parts of the week, made to carry burdens; a meer Servant or Slave made to do the drudgery of the humane life. The Sabbath is the face, the seat of Majesty which God hath made to look upward, and to contemplate the glory of the Heavens and of the maker thereof.