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3. Take mens Consciences for a third Witness, and it will be found that for no sin, do they more frequently and more sharply challenge, then for Profaning of the Lords day: The Conscience directly making use of this Command, and of the Memento, and other reasons in it for aggravating of that sin, when yet it will say nothing for the Seventh day; but this first-day of seven it presseth most exactly, neither will any reason alleged against its morality quiet it; and the more tender that Christians be, the more will they find a pressure of Conscience for obedience to this Command; and the more easily will they be convinced of, and sadly challenged for the least breach of this Command.

3. Take mens Consciences for a third Witness, and it will be found that for no sin, do they more frequently and more sharply challenge, then for Prophaning of the Lords day: The Conscience directly making use of this Command, and of the Memento, and other reasons in it for aggravating of that sin, when yet it will say nothing for the Seventh day; but this first-day of seven it presseth most exactly, neither will any reason alleaged against its morality quietit; and the more tender that Christians be, the more will they find a pressure of Conscience for obedience to this Command; and the more easily will they be convinced of, and sadly challenged for the least breach of this Command.

4. Gods Dispensations of Blessings or Plagues, especially in spiritual things, bear witness to this Truth: Doth not experience tell us, that those who make most Conscience of keeping this Command, are often, yea, ever the most thriving Christians as to universal holiness and tenderness, and most near and intimate Communion with God? and will not the unsuitable sanctification of but one Sabbath, or the interruption of their wonted seriousness therein, give them a sore backset? and on the contrary, doth it not appear that those who are gross and untender in this, are often gross and untender in all manner of Conversation, and are followed with spiritual plagues of hardness, deadness, and Hypocrisy at the best, or else fall into gross outward acts of profanity, or into errors in judgment, which are the bad and sad effects of profaning this day, on them who prejudge themselves of the blessing of it; and if the blessing of this Law continue, must not the Law it self be moral and perpetually binding? the obedience whereof, hath this blessing perpetually more or less annexed to it, as the profanation thereof hath usually Plagues, at least spiritual.