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

If you say that the sublimity or difficulty maketh it wearisome, I answer, that Philosophers do much longer hold on in harder speculations.

If you say Divinity being unsuitable to carnal minds, their sick Stomachs must take no more than they can digest, I answer, 1. Cannot a Carnal Preacher for his gain, and honour, and fancy, hold on all the year in the study even of Divinity, perhaps eight or ten hours every day in the week? And may not ignorant people be brought one day to endure to be taught as long? 2. That which you call Digesting, is but Understanding, and believing, and receiving it: And one truth tendeth to introduce another; And he that cannot learn with an hours labour may learn more in two. 3. And it is hearing and exercise that must cure their want of appetite. Experience telleth us, that when people take the liberty of plays, and sports, and idleness for a recreation, they come back with much more want of Love to holy exercises, than they that continue longer at them. Gratifying sloth and sensuality, increaseth it, and increaseth an averseness to all that is good; For who are more averse than they that are most voluptuous? If ever ⟨p. 144⟩people be made seriously holy, it is a due observation of the whole Lords day, that is like to bring them to it (I mean observing it in such Learning and seeking duties as they are capable of, till they can do better) For when the mind long dwelleth on the truth, it will sink in and work; And many strokes will drive the nail to the head.

If you say Divinity being unsuitable to carnal minds, their sick Stomachs must take no more than they can digest, I answer, 1. Cannot a Carnal Preacher for his gain, and honour, and fancy, hold on all the year in the study even of Divinity, perhaps eight or ten hours every day in the week? And may not ignorant people be brought one day to endure to be taught as long? 2. That which you call Digesting, is but Vnderstanding, and believing, and receiving it: And one truth tendeth to introduce another; And he that cannot learn with an hours labour may learn more in two. 3. And it is hearing and exercise that must cure their want of appetite. Experience telleth us, that when people take the liberty of playes, and sports, and idleness for a recreation, they come back with much more want of Love to holy exercises, than they that continue longer at them. Gratifying sloth and sensuality, increaseth it, and increaseth an averseness to all that is good; For who are more averse than they that are most voluptuous? If ever