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…

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.

4. Duties would be multiplyed that day, more secret and private Prayer, Reading, &c. and more publick Worship; even as there were double Sacrifices that day under the Law, though there were Sacrifices all days.

5. There would be in the duties of this day more intenseness of Spirit, and a further degree of Spiritual affections, then in these duties of other days; because this day is purposely set apart for that end; and by continuance in Duties we may attain to more of a spiritual frame, and because not only the Exercises of worship praying, reading and hearing, &c. call to Holiness on this day, as they do on other days, but even the very day it self doth call to it; even as on a solemn day of humiliation men ought to be more affected and deeply humbled then on other days (though daily they should repent and be humbled) because that day is solemnly set apart for it; so ought our worship to be more intense and solemn this day suitable unto it, wherein we are, as it were, dieted for insisting and persisting in duties of worship; whereas these duties in this respect, and in comparison, are on other days, but as starts, worship is here some way the only work of that day.

5. There would be in the duties of this day more intenseness of Spirit, and a further degree of Spiritual affections, then in these duties of other days; because this day is purposely set apart for that end; and by continuance in Duties we may attain to more of a spiritual frame, and because not only the Exercises of worship praying, reading and hearing, &c. call to Holiness on this day, as they do on other days, but even the very day it self doth call to it; even as on a solemn day of humiliation men ought to be more affected and deeply humbled then on other days (though daily they should repent and be humbled) because that day is solemnly set apart for it; so ought our worship to be more intense and solemn this day suitable unto it, wherein we are, as it were, dyeted for insisting and persisting in duties of worship; whereas these duties in this respect, and in comparison, are on other days, but as starts, worship is here some way the only work of that day.