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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.
I deny not but in those former years, when the Law forbade me not to Preach the Gospel, the people came to me on the week day, house by house, and also that they Learned much in their shops while they were working. But, 1. It came to each Families turn but one hour, or little more in a whole Year (For about fourteen families a week so Catechized and instructed, did no sooner bring their course about.) 2. And our people were mostly Weavers, whose labour was not like the Plowman's, Masons, Carpenters, Carriers, &c. to take up their thoughts; but they could lay a Book before them and read, or meditate, or Discourse to Edification whilst they were working. But this is not the case of the Multitude.
I deny not but in those former years, when the Law forbad me not to Preach the Gospel, the people came to me on the week day, house by house, and also that they Learned much in their shops while they were working. But, 1. It came to each Families turn but one hour, or little more in a whole Year (For about fourteen families a week so Catechized and instructed, did no sooner bring their course about.) 2. And our people were mostly Weavers, whose labour was not like the Plowmans, Masons, Carpenters, Carryers, &c. to take up their thoughts; but they could lay a Book before them and read, or meditate, or Discourse to Edification whilest they were working. But this is not the case of the Multitude.
And let any sober man but consider, whether with people so ignorant and averse as the most are, should he be never so diligent on the Lords day, the six days intermission be not a great cooling of affection, and a great delayer of their growth in knowledge; when they are like by the weeks end to forget all that they had learned on the Lords day. What then would these poor people come to, if the Lords day it self must be alsoloitered or played away?
And let any sober man but consider, whether with people so ignorant and averse as the most are, should he be never so diligent on the Lords day, the six dayes intermission be not a great cooling of affection, and a great delayer of their growth in knowledge; when they are like by the weeks end to forget all that they had learned on the Lords day. What then would these poor people come to, if the Lords day it self must be alsoloitered or played away?