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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 11
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.
III. It is not unlawful to dress meat, even in some fuller and better manner than on other days; Because it is a Festival, or day of Thanksgiving. And it is a vain self-contradiction of some men, who think that another day of Thanksgiving is not well kept, if there be not two feasting meals at least, and yet think it unlawful to dress one on the Lords day: But yet to make it a day of Gluttony, or to waste more of the day in eating or dressing meat than is agreeable to the spiritual work of the day, which is our end; or to make our selves sleepy by fullness, or to use our servants like Beasts, to provide for our bellies, with the neglect of their ⟨p. 131⟩own souls; or to pamper the flesh to the satisfaction and irritation of its lusts; All this is to be detested.
III. It is not unlawful to dress meat, even in some fuller and better manner than on other dayes; Because it is a Festival, or day of Thanksgiving. And it is a vain self-contradiction of some men, who think that another day of Thanksgiving is not well kept, if there be not two feasting meals at least, and yet think it unlawful to dress one on the Lords day: But yet to make it a day of Gluttony, or to waste more of the day in eating or dressing meat than is agreeable to the spiritual work of the day, which is our end; or to make our selves sleepy by fulness, or to use our servants like Beasts, to provide for our bellies, with the neglect of their ⟨p. 131⟩own souls; or to pamper the flesh to the satisfaction and irritation of its lusts; All this is to be detested.
IV. It is not unlawful to do the necessary works of mercy to our selves or others, to man or beast; Those which must be done, and cannot be delayed without more hurt than the doing of them will procure (for that is the description of a necessary work.) As to eat and drink and cloth our selves, and our Children; To carry meat to the poor that are in present necessity; To give or take Physic; and to go for advice to the Physician or Surgeon: To travel upon a business of importance and necessity; To quench a fire; or prop a house that is about to fall; To march or fight in a necessary case of War; To Sail or labour at Sea in cases of necessity; To Boat-men over a River that go to Church; To pursue a Robber, or defend him that is assaulted; To pull a man out of fire or water; To dress a mans sores, or to give Physic to the sick; To pull an Ox or Horse or other Cattle out of a pit or water; To drive or lead them to water, and to give them meat: To save Cattle, Corn or Hay from the sudden inundations of the Sea, or of Rivers, or from Floods; To drive Cattle or Swine out of the grounds where they break in to spoil; such necessary actions are not unlawful but a duty; It being a Moral or Natural precept, which Christ twice bid the Ceremonious Pharisees learn [I will have mercy and not Sacrifice.]