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London's lamentation, or, A serious discourse concerning the late fiery dispensation that turned our…
London's lamentation, or, A serious discourse concerning the late fiery dispensation that turned our (once renowned) city into a ruinous heap also the several lessons that are incumbent upon those whose houses have escaped the consuming flames / by Thomas Brooks.
London: printed for John Hancock and Nathaniel Ponder, 1670
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.
First, It is marked with a Memento above all other Commands, §1Exod. 20. 8. Remember the sabbath-day to keep it holy, and that partly, because we are so desperately apt and prone to forget it; and partly, because none can keep it holy when it comes, that do not remember it before it comes; and partly, because this is one of the greatest (if not absolutely the greatest) of all the Commandments: it is sometimes put for all the Ten; it is the Synopsis of them all: and partly, because 1the observation of all the Commandments depends chiefly upon the observation of this fourth. None walk so much after the Spirit on other days, as they who are most in the Spirit on the Lords day. There are none that walk so close with God all the six days, as those that keep closest to God on the seventh day. In the due observation of this Command, obedience to all the rest is comprised; and partly, ⟨p. 140⟩because this Command has least light of Nature to direct us to the observation of it; and partly, because the forgetting of this Duty, and profaning of this Day, is one of the greatest sins that a people can be guilty of: it is a violation of all the Decalogue at once: it is a sin against all the concernments and Commandments of God at once. But,
First, It is marked with a Memento above all other Commands, §1Exod. 20. 8. Remember the sabbath-day to keep it holy, and that partly, because we are so desperately apt and prone to forget it; and partly, because none can keep it holy when it comes, that do not remember it before it comes; and partly, because this is one of the greatest (if not absolutely the greatest) of all the Commandments: it is sometimes put for all the Ten; it is the Synopsis of them all: and partly, because 1the observation of all the Commandments depends chiefly upon the observation of this fourth. None walk so much after the Spirit on other days, as they who are most in the Spirit on the Lords day. There are none that walk so close with God all the six days, as those that keep closest to God on the seventh day. In the due observation of this Command, obedience to all the rest is comprised; and partly,