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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 12
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. The lamentable Ignorance of the generality in the world, doth require the strict and diligent observation of the whole Lords day. Children and Servants, and ordinary Country people, yea and too many of higher quality, are so exceeding Ignorant of the things of God and their Salvation, that all the constantest diligence that can be used with them, in Preaching, Exhorting, Catechizing, &c. will not overcome it with the most. The most diligent Masters of Families lament it, how Ignorant their Families are when they have done the best they can. Let those that plead for dancing and sporting away much of the day, but do like men that do not secretly scorn Christianity, nor despise their servants souls, and let them but try what measure of knowledge the bare hearing of Common ⟨p. 142⟩Prayer, yea and a Sermon or two with it, will beget in their servants, if the rest of the day be spent in sports; and let them judge according to experience. If ever knowledge be propagated to such, and families made fit to live like Christians, it is likest to be by the holy improvement of this day, in the diligent teaching and Learning the substance of Religion, and in the Sacred exercises thereof.
III. The lamentable Ignorance of the generality in the world, doth require the strict and diligent observation of the whole Lords day. Children and Servants, and ordinary Countrey people, yea and too many of higher quality, are so exceeding Ignorant of the things of God and their Salvation, that all the constantest diligence that can be used with them, in Preaching, Exhorting, Catechizing, &c. will not overcome it with the most. The most diligent Masters of Families lament it, how Ignorant their Families are when they have done the best they can. Let those that plead for dancing and sporting away much of the day, but do like men that do not secretly scorn Christianity, nor despise their servants souls, and let them but try what measure of knowledge the bare hearing of Common ⟨p. 142⟩Prayer, yea and a Sermon or two with it, will beget in their servants, if the rest of the day be spent in sports; and let them judge according to experience. If ever knowledge be propagated to such, and families made fit to live like Christians, it is likest to be by the holy improvement of this day, in the diligent teaching and Learning the substance of Religion, and in the Sacred exercises thereof.