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The divine appointment of the Lords day proved as a separated day for holy…
The divine appointment of the Lords day proved as a separated day for holy worship, especially in the church assemblies, and consequently the cessation of the seventh day Sabbath : written for the satisfaction of some religious persons who are lately drawn into error or doubting in both these points / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1671
The Divine Appointment of the LORDS DAY, proved, as a separated Day… › Chapter 10
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.
O Lord set wise and holy Pastors over thy poor Flocks, that have learnt themselves the holy ⟨p. 118⟩Doctrine which they Preach, and who love, (or at least abhor not) the service and imitation of a Crucified Christ, and the practice of that Religion which they themselves profess.
O Lord set wise and holy Pastors over thy poor Flocks, that have learnt themselves the holy ⟨p. 118⟩Doctrine which they Preach, and who love, (or at least abhorr not) the service and imitation of a Crucified Christ, and the practice of that Religion which they themselves profess.
Obj. But poor labouring people must have some recreation, and they cannot through their poverty have leisure any other day.
Answ. 1. A sad Argument to be used by them that by racking of Rents do keep them in Poverty. They that cannot live without all those superfluities, which requireth many hundred pounds a Year to maintain them must for this gratifying pride and fleshly lusts, set such bargains to their poor Tenants, as that they confess they cannot live, without taking the Lords day to recreate them from the toil and weariness of their excessive labours: And will not God judge such self-condemning oppressors as these are?
Answ. 1. A sad Argument to be used by them that by racking of Rents do keep them in Poverty. They that cannot live without all those superfluities, which requireth many hundred pounds a Year to maintain them must for this gratifying pride and fleshly lusts, set such bargains to their poor Tenants, as that they confess they cannot live, without taking the Lords day to recreate them from the toile and weariness of their excessive labours: And will not God judge such self-condemning oppressours as these are?