Several discourses tending to promote peace & holiness among Christians to which are added,…

These Morals are more acceptable to God, and approved of Men, than a furious Zeal for lesser things, which belong to the ritual Part, or external Order of Religion. It's an Argument of a better Spirit, to be more zealous for Morals and Substantials, than Rituals; certainly without them we shall be of no account with God. And partly to that, when Moral Duties come in competition with Ceremonial, the Moral Duties at that time must take place of the other, and all positive Commands concerning the Externals of Religion, give way to them. The Lord never appointed the Ceremonies of the First-Table, to hinder Works of Mercy prescribed in the Second, therefore the Mercy must be done, and the Sacrifice left undone: as the Sabbath is both broken and kept, when there is an evident necessity of preserving the Creature. When David fainted, 'twas a Moral Duty to relieve him, though there were no Bread at Hand, but the Show-bread; 1 Sam. 21. 4. There is no common Bread under my Hands. And Christ urgeth that; Mat. 12. 3, 4. Have ye not read what David did when he was an ⟨p. 13⟩hungered; how he entered into the House of God, and did eat the Show-bread, which was not lawful for him to eat; nor for them which were with him, but only for the Priests? In an extraordinary case of Necessity, the Show-bread is as common Bread. Now the Reason is plain, because Positives bind only in certain Cases, but we are everlastingly obliged to things Moral. Therefore Externals must give way both to Obedience and Mercy. Internal Acts of Worship are never dispensed with.

These Morals are more acceptable to God, and approved of Men, than a furious Zeal for lesser things, which belong to the ritual Part, or external Order of Religion. It's an Argument of a better Spirit, to be more zealous for Morals and Substantials, than Rituals; certainly without them we shall be of no account with God. And partly to that, when Moral Duties come in competition with Ceremonial, the Moral Duties at that time must take place of the other, and all positive Commands concerning the Externals of Religion, give way to them. The Lord never appointed the Ceremonies of the First-Table, to hinder Works of Mercy prescribed in the Second, therefore the Mercy must be done, and the Sacrifice left undone: as the Sabbath is both broken and kept, when there is an evident necessity of preserving the Creature. When David fainted, 'twas a Moral Duty to relieve him, though there were no Bread at Hand, but the Shew-bread;