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The sabbaths sanctification
The sabbaths sanctification ... by W.G.
London: printed by G.M. for Joshua Kirton and Thomas Warren, 1641
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.
There is therefore a double bond to tie us to a diligent performance of all these on the Lords day, as we can find any occasion of doing them: one, the bond of piety: the other, the bond of mercy. Yea as the soul is more excellent then the body, and the good of the soul more necessary then the good of the body, so these works of mercy which so much concern the good of the soul, ought with more diligence to be done, then those which concern the good of the body: which yet we must not neglect. These we ought to do, and not leave the other undone.
There is therefore a double bond to tye us to a diligent performance of all these on the Lords day, as we can finde any occasion of doing them: one, the bond of piety: the other, the bond of mercy. Yea as the soule is more excellent then the body, and the good of the soule more necessary then the good of the body, so these works of mercy which so much concerne the good of the soule, ought with more diligence to be done, then those which concerne the good of the body: which yet we must not neglect. These we ought to doe, and not leave the other undone.
19 Q. What are the works of mercy which concern the body?
19 Q. What are the workes of mercy which concerne the body?
A. 1 Visiting the sick, and such as are otherwayes restrained of liberty. Mark. 1. 29, 30. Mat. 25. 36.