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A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
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.
By all which we may see what need there is to watch over our selves in these things, lest our liberty be turned into licentiousness, and lest we grow either idle or carnal on that day.
Let us then consider how far this rest extendeth: and under it we take in 1. The rest of the whole man, outward and inward, in deeds, words, and thoughts, so is it Isai. 58.13. we should not speak our own words (nor by proportion think our own thoughts) nor find our own pleasures. 2. It goeth through the whole day, for though every minute of the day cannot be applied to positive duties, yet in no minute of it, is it lawful to do another work (inconsistent with the qualifications and scope aforesaid) that is the negative part in it, thou shalt do no work, which bindeth ad semper. 3. It is to be extended not only to a mans own person, but to all under him, children, servants, &c. he must be answerable for it, that they rest, and must give them no occasion of work. 4. It's to be extended even to the least work of any fort, if unnecessary, as gathering sticks, speaking our own words, &c. these are all breaches of the Sabbath. 5. This rest extendeth to ⟨p. 283⟩all actions or sorts of actions or cases which are not comprehended under the former exceptions which are permitted, or are consistent with the sanctifying of the Sabbath: As,
Let us then consider how far this rest extendeth: and under it we take in 1. The rest of the whole man, outward and inward, in deeds, words, and thoughts, so is it Isai. 58.13. we should not speak our own words (nor by proportion think our own thoughts) nor find our own pleasures. 2. It goeth through the whole day, for though every minute of the day cannot be applyed to positive duties, yet in no minute of it, is it lawful to do another work (inconsistent with the qualifications and scope aforesaid) that is the negative part in it, thou shalt do no work, which bindeth ad semper. 3. It is to be extended not only to a mans own person, but to all under him, children, servants, &c. he must be answerable for it, that they rest, and must give them no occasion of work. 4. It's to be extended even to the least work of any fort, if unnecessary, as gathering sticks, speaking our own words, &c. these are all breaches of the Sabbath. 5. This rest extendeth to