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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.
Caviller, come but unto Christ, and cast off the wearisome, toilsome burden of thy sin, and Satan's drudgery, and take Christs Yoke and Burden on thee, and learn of him, and try then whether his days and work be grievous. Come and spend but a day in Loving God, as thou dost in talking of him, and try whether Love, and the holiest Love, be a wearisome work. But if thou wilt make a Religion of all Shell and no Kernel, all Carcass and no Life, like that which the Jansenists charge the Jesuits with, that say, We are bound to love God but once in four or five years, or once in all our lives, no wonder if thou be weary of such a Religion.
Caviller, come but unto Christ, and cast off the wearisome, toilesome burden of thy sin, and Satans drudgery, and take Christs Yoak and Burden on thee, and learn of him, and try then whether his daies and work be grievous. Come and spend but a day in Loving God, as thou dost in talking of him, and try whether Love, and the holiest Love, be a wearisome work. But if thou wilt make a Religion of all Shell and no Kernel, all Carkass and no Life, like that which the Jansenists charge the Jesuites with, that say, We are bound to love God but once in four or five years, or once in all our lives, no wonder if thou be weary of such a Religion.
6. But I will tell them that are the Teachers of the people, an honester way to Cure the peoples weariness, than to send them to a Piper or to a Play to cure it. Preach with such life and awakening seriousness; Preach with such grateful holy eloquence, and with such easy method, and with such variety of wholesome matter, that the people may never be aweary of you. Pour out the rehearsal of the Love and benefits of God, open so to them the privileges of faith, and the Joys of hope, that they may never be aweary. How oft have I heard the people say of such as these, I could hear him all day and never be aweary! They are troubled at the shortness of such Sermons and wish they had been longer. Pray with that Heavenly life and fervour as may rap up the souls of those that join with you, and try then whether they will be aweary: Praise God with that joyful alacrity which beseemeth one that is ready to pass into Glory, and try whether this will not Cure the peoples weariness.