A27107:632
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1695
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
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.
And it is certain, that he who makes no conscience to break the Sabbath, will not (to serve his turn) make any Conscience to break any of the other Commandments, so he may do it without discredit of his reputation, or danger of Man's Law. Therefore God placed this Commandment, in the midst of the Two Tables; because the keeping of it, is the best help to the keeping of all the rest. The conscionable keeping of the Sabbath, is the Mother of all religion, and good discipline in the Church. Take away the Sabbath, and let every man serve God when he listeth; and what will shortly become of Religion, and that peace and order, which God will have to be kept in his Church? 1the Sabbath day is God's Market-day, for the weeks provision; wherein He will have us to come unto him, 2and buy of him without silver or money, the Bread of Angels, and Water of Life, the Wine of the Sacrament, and Milk of the Word to feed our souls; tried gold, 3to enrich our faith; precious E•e-salve, •o heal our spiritual blindness; and the white raiment of Christ's righteousness, to cover our silchy nakedness. He is not far from true Piety, who makes conscience to keep the Sabbath day: but he who can dispense with his conscience to break the Sabbath for his own profit or pleasure, his heart never yet felt, what either the fear of God, or true […] For of this […] speech of S.4 James […] ⟨p. 238⟩faileth in one, is guilty of all, seeing therefore that God hath fenced this commandment with so many moral reasons, it is evident that the Commandment it self is moral.
And it is certain, that he who makes no conscience to break the Sabbath, will not (to serve his turn) make any Conscience to break any of the other Commandments, so he may do it without discredit of his reputation, or danger of Man's Law. Therefore God placed this Commandment, in the midst of the Two Tables; because the keeping of it, is the best help to the keeping of all the rest. The conscionable keeping of the Sabbath, is the Mother of all religion, and good discipline in the Church. Take away the Sabbath, and let every man serve God when he listeth; and what will shortly become of Religion, and that peace and order, which God will have to be kept in his Church?