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

I. The due observation of the Lords day is needful to keep up the solemn worship of God, and public owning and honouring him in the world: If all men were left to themselves, what time they would bestow in the worshipping of God, the greatest part would cast off all, and grow into Atheism or utter profaneness; And the rest would grow into confusion. And if all Princes and Rulers or Churches in the world were left to their own wills to appoint the people on what days to meet, some Kingdoms and Churches would have one day, in eight, or nine, or ten, or twenty, and some only now and then an hour, and some one day, and some another, and some next to none at all. For there is no one universal Monarch on Earth to make Laws for them ⟨p. 140⟩all (whatever the Pope or his nominal-General Councils may pretend to:) And they would never all come to any reasonable agreement voluntarily among themselves. Therefore the Light of Nature telleth us, that as a day is meet and needful to be stated, so it is meet that God himself the true Universal Monarch should determine of it; which accordingly he hath done. And this is the very hedge and defensative of Gods public Worship. When he hath made a Law that one whole day in seven shall be spent in it, men are engaged to attend it.

I. The due observation of the Lords day is needful to keep up the solemn worship of God, and publick owning and honouring him in the world: If all men were left to themselves, what time they would bestow in the worshipping of God, the greatest part would cast off all, and grow into Atheisme or utter prophaneness; And the rest would grow into confusion. And if all Princes and Rulers or Churches in the world were left to their own wills to appoint the people on what dayes to meet, some Kingdoms and Churches would have one day, in eight, or nine, or ten, or twenty, and some only now and then an hour, and some one day, and some another, and some next to none at all. For there is no one universal Monareh on Earth to make Laws for them ⟨p. 140⟩all (whatever the Pope or his nominal-General Councils may pretend to:) And they would never all come to any reasonable agreement voluntarily among themselves. Therefore the Light of Nature telleth us, that as a day is meet and needful to be stated, so it is meet that God himself the true Universal Monarch should determine of it; which accordingly he hath done. And this is the very hedge and defensative of Gods publick Worship. When he hath made a Law that one whole day in seven shall be spent in it, men are engaged to attend it.