A37049:1030
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.
This days sanctification then, we conceive to consist in these,
1. That there is more abstractedness not only from sinful things, but even from lawful temporal things, required on that day then on other days, a spiritual frame of heart, separating and setting apart a man from ordinary thoughts; Hence we may say, that as the Greek word [Greek or Hebrew], signifieth unclean as well as common, so a common or every day-frame of Spirit, will be found unclean for the Sabbath; there must therefore be another frame of heart, different from an ilk a day-frame and suited to that day.
1. That there is more abstractedness not only from sinful things, but even from lawful temporal things, required on that day then on other days, a spiritual frame of heart, separating and setting apart a man from ordinary thoughts; Hence we may say, that as the Greek word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, signifyeth unclean as well as common, so a common or every day-frame of Spirit, will be found unclean for the Sabbath; there must therefore be another frame of heart, different from an ilk a day-frame and suited to that day.
2. This day is to be sanctified in respect of the Exercises […] beyond other days, and that necessarily; whereas on some other days we may be taken up in some duties of worship arbitrarily, but here necessarily: And men may, and ought, to be holy on other days, in their ploughing, and other works, but there their Holiness is to be in immediate worship to God, in some thing relating to that alway, such as praying, reading, hearing, conferring, meditating, &c.
2. This day is to be sanctifyed in respect of the Exercises beyond other days, and that necessarily; whereas on some other days we may be taken up in some duties of worship arbitrarily, but here necessarily: And men may, and ought, to be holy on other days, in their plowing, and other works, but there their Holiness is to be in immediate worship to God, in some thing relating to that alway, such as praying, reading, hearing, conferring, meditating, &c.