Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

Duties of Piety are of three sorts, viz 1 Public. 2 Private. 3 Secret. The which, because they are interchangeably mixed with one another, therefore I shall interchangeably speak of them.

Duties of Piety are of three sorts, viz 1 Publick. 2 Private. 3 Secret. The which, because they are interchangeably mixed with one another, therefore I shall interchangeably speak of them.

The duties to be performed by way of preparation, are these.

1 Remember the day beforehand, to the end you may so order and dispose of your worldly affairs, that they may be dispatched ⟨p. 93⟩in convenient time on the Eve of the Sabbath, that so both your selves and servants may go to bed in such time, that your bodies may be well refreshed with sleep, and your minds fitted for the duties of the day.¹ This the Lord intimateth in the beginning of the fourth Commandment, saying, Remember to keep holy the Sabbath Day; where by remembering it, may be meant a minding of it before hand. How blame worthy then are they, who sit up themselves, and keep their servants so late up in the night before the Sabbath, that they are enforced to lye longer in their beds than ordinary on the Sabbath Day, yea and when they are come into the Congregation, are fitter to sleep than to hear; Is this to remember the Sabbath to keep it holy?

1 Remember the day beforehand, to the end you may so order and dispose of your worldly affairs, that they may be dispatched ⟨p. 93⟩