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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.
1The verb in the Hebrew Vecibbactto, may be rendered It or Him; but the sense seems to incline to the latter [Him] rather than It: the day having had its title of veneration put upon it before, [honourable] this may more properly belong to God, even to the whole blessed and glorious Trinity; requiring at the hands of every one that enjoyeth this blessed privilege of a Sabbath, that they ascribe the honour and glory of it unto God: and that is done, 1. When we make divine Authority the sole ground of our separating and sanctifying the whole day to his peculiar Service and Worship, without alienating any part or parcel of that holy time to our own carnal uses and purposes. Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it: [there's the duty] as the Lord thy God commanded thee, [there's the Authority.] 2. When, (as we make Gods command our ground, so) we make Gods glory our end.
1The verb in the Hebrew Vecibbactto, may be rendred It or Him; but the sence seems to incline to the latter [Him] rather than It: the day having had its title of veneration put upon it before, [honourable] this may more properperly belong to God, even to the whole blessed and glorious Trinity; requiring at the hands of every one that enjoyeth this blessed priviledge of a Sabbath, that they ascribe the honour and glory of it unto God: and that is done, 1. When we make divine Authority the sole ground of our separating and sanctifying the whole day to his peculiar Service and Worship, without alienating any part or parcel of that holy time to our own carnal uses and purposes. Keep the Sabbath day to sanctifie it: [there's the duty] as the Lord thy God commanded thee, [there's the Authority.] 2. When, (as we make Gods command our ground, so) we make Gods glory our end.
- 1From Cabad honorare.
When we make it our design to set up God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, in all his glorious and infinite perfections, in our Adorations and Admirations upon that his holy day. And that is done in a special manner when we make it the great business of a Sabbath,