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An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it…
An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it was carried on in the Lords Days exercises in Dartmouth, in the first year of liberty, 1688 / by John Flavell.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692
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.
Q. 2. May not any works of our civil Calling be ordinarily done on that day?
A. No; it is sinful to put our hands ordinarily to our Callings on that day, and God usually punishes it: Neh. 13.15, 16, 17, 18. In those days saw I in Judah, some treading wine-presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses, as also ⟨p. 131⟩wine, grapes and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day; and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals. There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath, unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem. Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day? Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
A. No; it is sinful to put our hands ordinarily to our Callings on that day, and God usually punishes it: Neh. 13.15, 16, 17, 18. In those dayes saw I in Iudah, some treading wine-presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses, as also ⟨p. 131⟩wine, grapes and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Ierusalem on the sabbath day; and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals. There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath, unto the children of Iudah, and in Ierusalem. Then I contended with the nobles of Iudah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day? Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.