The divine appointment of the Lords day proved as a separated day for holy…

[It is observed that Christian people do very rashly slight and neglect the Lords day; giving themselves thereon as on other days, to continual labours, &c. Therefore let every Christian, in case he carry not that name in vain, give ear to our instruction; knowing that we have care that you should do well, as well as the power to bridle you, that you do not ill. It followeth, Custodite Diem Dominicum qui nos denuo peperit, &c. Keep the Lords day, the day of our new birth, whereon we were delivered from the snares of sin. Let no man meddle in Litigious Controversies, or deal in actions or Law suites▪ or put himself at all on such an exigent, that needs he must prepare his Oxen for their daily work, but exercise your selves in Hymns, and singing praises unto God; being intent thereon both in mind and body. If any have a Church at hand, let him go unto it, and there pour forth his soul in tears and Prayers; his Eyes and Hands being all that day lifted up to God. It is the everlasting day of rest, insinuating to us under the shadow of the seventh day or Sabbath, in the Law and ⟨p. 45⟩Prophets: And therefore it is very meet that we should celebrate this day with one accord, whereon we have been made what at first we were not. Let us then offer to God our free and voluntary service, by whose great goodness we are freed from the Goal of error: not that the Lord exacts it of us, that we should celebrate this day in a corporal abstinence or rest from labour, who only looks that we do yield obedience to his holy will, by which contemning earthly things, he may conduct us to the Heavens of his infinite mercy. However if any man shall set at naught this our Exhortation, be he assured, that God shall punish him as he hath deserved; and that he shall be also subject unto the Censures of the Church. In case he be a Lawyer, he shall lose his cause; if that he be an Husbandman, or Servant, he shall be corporally punished for it: But if a Clergy-man or Monk, he shall be six Months separated from the Congregation.]

[It is observed that Christian people do very rashly slight and neglect the Lords day; giving themselves thereon as on other dayes, to continual labours, &c. Therefore let every Christian, in case he carry not that name in vain, give eare to our instruction; knowing that we have care that you should do well, as well as the power to bridle you, that you do not ill. It followeth, Custodite Diem Dominicum qui nos denuo peperit, &c. Keep the Lords day, the day of our new birth, whereon we were delivered from the snares of sin. Let no man meddle in Litigious Controversies, or deal in actions or Law suites or put himself at all on such an exigent, that needs he must prepare his Oxen for their daily work, but exercise your selves in Hymnes, and singing praises unto God; being intent thereon both in mind and body. If any have a Church at hand, let him go unto it, and there pour forth his soul in tears and Prayers; his Eyes and Hands being all that day lifted up to God. It is the everlasting day of rest, insinuating to us under the shadow of the seventh day or Sabbath, in the Law and