A27107:676
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.
1. The servile and common works, from which we are to cease, are generally all civil works from the* least to the greatest More particularly;
- *Exod. 31. 12, 13. Exod. 31. 15, &c. Exod. 34. 21.
First, from all the works of our Calling, though it were reaping in the time of harvest.
Secondly,1 from carrying burdens, as Carriers do; or riding abroad for profit, or for pleasure: God hath commanded that the beasts should rest on the Sabbath day, because all occasions of travelling or labouring with them should be cut off from man.2 God gives them that day a rest; and he that without necessity, deprives them of their rest on the Lord's day,3 the groans of the poor tired Beasts shall in the day of the Lord rise up in judgment against him. Likewise such as spend the greatest part of this day in trimming, painting and pampering of themselves, like Jezebels, doing the devil's work upon God's day.
Secondly,1