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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.
Fourthly, The day is honourable when we have a singular esteem of all the Institutions and Ordinances of the day. When Prayer is precious, and the word Read, Preached, is precious, when singing of Psalms is precious, the Sacraments precious: when every one in its time and order is observed with such due regard that none do jostle out or exclude the other, but one doth catch in the other, as the links in a chain of Gold.
Fourthly, The day is honourable when we have a singular esteem of all the Institutions and Ordinances of the day. When Prayer is precious, and the word Read, Preached, is precious, when singing of Psalms is precious, the Sacraments precious: when every one in its time and order is observed with such due regard that none do justle out or exclude the other, but one doth catch in the other, as the links in a chain of Gold.
Fifthly, When it is the grief of our souls that we can keep Sabbaths no better, and strive cordially and conscientiously to keep the next better than we did the last.
Sixthly, and lastly, when we are careful that all ours as well as our selves keep Sabbaths: this is a main clause in our obedience to the 4th commandment. Thou, thy Son and thy Daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, &c. Every one in their several capacities must keep the Sabbath.