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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
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VI. By these same Rules also we may judge of Recreations on the Lords day. The Recreations of the mind must be the various holy employments ⟨p. 137⟩of the day. No bodily Recreations are lawful which needlessly waste time, or hinder our duty, or divert our minds from holy things, or are a snare to others. Unless it be some weak persons whose health requireth bodily motion, few persons need any other than holy recreations on that day. I know no one man that so much needeth it as my self, who these twenty years cannot digest one days meat, unless I walk, or run, or exercise my body before it, till I am hot or sweat; And therefore necessity requireth me to walk or fast: But I do it privately on that day, left I tempt others to sin. But I will not censure one whom I see walking at fit hours, when for ought I know he may be taken up in some fruitful Meditation. But if persons will walk in the Streets or Fields in idleness, or for vain delight, or discourse, as if the day were too long for them, and they had no business to do for their souls, this is not only a sin, but a very ill sign of one that is senseless of his souls necessity and his duty.
VI. By these same Rules also we may judge of Recreations on the Lords day. The Recreations of the mind must be the various holy employments ⟨p. 137⟩of the day. No bodily Recreations are lawful which needlesly waste time, or hinder our duty, or divert our minds from holy things, or are a snare to others. Unless it be some weak persons whose health requireth bodily motion, few persons need any other than holy recreations on that day. I know no one man that so much needeth it as my self, who these twenty years cannot digest one dayes meat, unless I walk, or run, or exercise my body before it, till I am hot or sweat; And therefore necessity requireth me to walk or fast: But I do it privately on that day, left I tempt others to sin. But I will not censure one whom I see walking at fit houres, when for ought I know he may be taken up in some fruitful Meditation. But if persons will walk in the Streets or Fields in idleness, or for vain delight, or discourse, as if the day were too long for them, and they had no business to do for their souls, this is not only a sin, but a very ill sign of one that is senseless of his souls necessity and his duty.