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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
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.
1. To believe that the soul is Immortal. 2. To believe that there is a Heaven where we shall be perfectly blessed in the Knowledge, Love and Fruition of God. 3. To believe that there is a Hell, or life of future punishment for all the impenitent. 4. To Love ourselves, with a just and necessary Love, as such. 5. To take greatest care to save our souls, above our bodies. 6. To tame and mortify all our fleshly lusts in order to our own Salvation. 7. To deny all bodily pleasure, profit, honour, liberty and life, for the securing of our salvation. 8. To forbear all outward acts of Gluttony, Drunkenness, Sloth, &c. as they tend to our own damnation. 9. To rejoice in persecution because of our great reward in Heaven. 10. To pray constantly, and fervently for Heaven, as the means of our obtaining it.
1. To believe that the soul is Immortal. 2. To believe that there is a Heaven where we shall be perfectly blessed in the Knowledge, Love and Fruition of God. 3. To believe that there is a Hell, or life of future punishment for all the impenitent. 4. To Love ourselves, with a just and necessary Love, as such. 5. To take greatest care to save our souls, above our bodies. 6. To tame and mortifie all our fleshly lusts in order to our own Salvation. 7. To deny all bodily pleasure, profit, honour, liberty and life, for the securing of our salvation. 8. To forbear all outward acts of Gluttony, Drunkenness, Sloth, &c. as they tend to our own damnation. 9. To rejoice in persecution because of our great reward in Heaven. 10. To pray constantly, and servently for Heaven, as the means of our obtaining it.
Let none say that many of these same things are commanded in order to God, and our neighbour. For I grant that the same material acts be ⟨p. 218⟩so; as they are expressions of Love to God and Man: But to do them in Love to our selves and for our own Salvation, is another principle and end, not contrary to, but necessarily conjunct with the former two: And indeed all the duties of self-love as such are past by (as supposed) in Moses Decalogue; because they are deeply written in mans Nature, and because the Law was Written as Political, for another use.