A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

2. Then we call it honourable when we give it honourable entertainment. When we awaken our selves in such good time (yet so as we may not indispose nature for the service of the day) as David did,¹ awake my Psaltery and ⟨p. 149⟩Harp, I my self will awake right early; I say, to get up early in the morning,² to meet our blessed Lord and Bridegroom coming from his Sepulchre to visit us.

1. 1Psal. 108.2.
2. 2Ma•h. 28.1.

That which is but fancied of the natural Sun, its dancing upon Easter-day in the morning for joy of the Lords Resurrection, I have known realized by some excellent Christians, whose hearts have not only leaped in them, but themselves have hasted out of their beds and have leaped and skipped up and down in their chamber, when the morning light of the Sabbath hath shined on them, in remembrance of the Sun of Righteousness arising from the grave with healing under his wings.

That which is but fancied of the natural Sun, its dancing upon Easter-day in the morning for joy of the Lords Resurrection, I have known reallized by some excellent Christians, whose hearts have not only leaped in them, but themselves have hasted out of their beds and have leaped and skipped up and down in their chamber, when the morning light of the Sabbath hath shined on them, in remembrance of the Sun of Righteousness arising from the grave with healing under his wings.