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

When the Sermon is ended, 1. Beware ⟨p. 276⟩thou depart not like the nine lepers, till that for thine instruction to saving health, thou hast returned thanks and praise to God by an after-prayer, and singing of a Psalm. And when the blessing is pronounced, stand up to receive thy part therein, and hear it,¹ as if Christ himself (whose Minister he is) did pronounce the same unto thee;² for in this case it is true; He that heareth you, heareth me: and the Sabbath-day is blessed, because God hath appointed it to be the day, wherein by the Mouth of his Ministers, he will bless his people, which hear his word, and glorify his Name. ³For tho' the Sabbath-day in it self be no more blessed than the other six days; yet (because the Lord hath appointed it to holy uses above others) it doth as far excel the other days of the week, as the consecrated bread, (which we receive at the Lord's Table) doth the common bread which we eat at our own Table.

When the Sermon is ended, 1. Beware ⟨p. 276⟩thou depart not like the nine lepers, till that for thine instruction to saving health, thou hast returned thanks and praise to God by an after-prayer, and singing of a Psalm. And when the blessing is pronounced, stand up to receive thy part therein, and hear it,¹ as if Christ himself (whose Minister he is) did pronounce the same unto thee;² for in this case it is true; He that heareth you, heareth me: and the Sabbath-day is blessed, because God hath appointed it to be the day, wherein by the Mouth of his Ministers, he will bless his people, which hear his word, and glorifie his Name. ³For tho' the Sabbath-day in it self be no more blessed than the other six days; yet (because the Lord hath appointed it to holy uses above others) it doth as far excel the other days of the week, as the consecrated bread, (which we receive at the Lord's Table) doth the common bread which we eat at our own Table.