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

For my own part, as my flesh is weak, so my heart is too bad, too backward to these Divine and Heavenly works! And yet I never have time to spare. God knoweth that it is my daily groans, How great is work, yea and how sweet; and how short is the day, the week, the year! How quickly is it night! How fast do weeks and years roll away! And shall any man that is called a Minister of Christ, persuade poor Labourers and Servants who have but one day for retirement from the world, to converse with God without distraction, that this one day is too long, and that their work must be •ased by carnal sports? Nay shall a man that would be called a Minister or a Christian, persuade men against all the experience ⟨p. 126⟩of the World, that the diversions and interruptions of a Dance or May game, or a Race or a Comedy, will dispose their minds to return to God with more Heavenly alacrity and purity than before, or than variety of holy exercises will do? Or rather, are we constrained to say (though it displease) that Hypocrites are all for Imagery and hypocritical Religion; and that whether he be at Church or at home, in Praying or in drinking and sensuality and voluptuousness, a Worldling is every where a Worldling still, and an hypocrite is an hypocrite still; And it is not his Book or Pulpit that maketh him another man. And that as the man is, such will be his Work. Operari sequitur esse. And that the Jesuits are not the only men in the world, that would make a Religion to suite mens lusts, and would serve Satan and the flesh, in the livery of Christ. But I fear I have been too long on this objection.

For my own part, as my flesh is weak, so my heart is too bad, too backward to these Divine and Heavenly works! And yet I never have time to spare. God knoweth that it is my daily groans, How great is work, yea and how sweet; and how short is the day, the week, the year! How quickly is it night! How fast do weeks and years roll away! And shall any man that is called a Minister of Christ, perswade poor Labourers and Servants who have but one day for retirement from the world, to converse with God without distraction, that this one day is too long, and that their work must be •ased by carnal sports? Nay shall a man that would be called a Minister or a Christian, perswade men against all the experience ⟨p. 126⟩