The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…

Fourthly, from studying any Books of Science,¹ but the holy Scriptures and Divinity. For our study must be to be ravished in spirit upon the Lord's day. In a word, thou must on that day cease in thy calling to do thy work: that the Lord by his Calling, may do his work in thee. For whatsoever is gotten by common working on this ⟨p. 261⟩day shall never be blessed of the Lord: but it will prove like Achan's Gold, which being got contrary to the Lord's Commandment, brought the fire of God's curse upon all the rest which he had lawfully gotten. And if Christ scourged them out as thieves, who bought and sold in his Temple, (which was but a Ceremony shortly to be abrogated) is it to be thought, that he will ever suffer those to escape unpunished who (contrary to his Commandment) buy and sell on the Sabbath day, which is his perpetual Law? Christ calleth such, sacrilegious Thieves; and as well may they steal the Communion Cup from the Lord's Table, as steal from God, the chiefest part of the Lord's day, to consume it in their own lusts. Such shall one day find the judgments of God heavier than the opinions of Men.

1. 1Rev. 1. 10.

Fifthly, from all recreations and sports, which at other times are lawful: for if lawful works be forbidden on this day; much more lawful sports, which do more steal away our affections from the contemplation of heavenly things,¹ than any bodily work or Labour. Neither can there be unto a man (that delighteth in the Lord) any greater delight or recreation,² than the sanctifying of the Lord's day, For can there be any greater joy for a person condemned, than to come to his Prince his house to have his Pardon sealed? for one that is deadly sick to come to a Physician that can cure him? or for a prodigal child that