A37049:1032
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.
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.
3. The sanctification of this day lieth in this, that it must be wholly sanctified, but parts of other days are ordinarily used in religious Service, but this whole day is to be used so, a man should be this whole day throughout, as in the time of praying on other days.
3. The sanctification of this day lyeth in this, that it must be wholly sanctified, but parts of other days are ordinarily used in religious Service, but this whole day is to be used so, a man should be this whole day throughout, as in the time of praying on other days.
4. Duties would be multiplied that day, more secret and private Prayer, Reading, &c. and more public Worship; even as there were double Sacrifices that day under the Law, though there were Sacrifices all days.