Exercitations concerning the name, original, nature, use, and continuance of a day of sacred…

Again; the Day it self and its sacred Services are to be thought upon. The Privileges that we are made partakers of thereby; the Advantages that are in the Duties of it, and the Duties themselves required of us, should be well digested in our minds. And where we have an habitual apprehension of them, yet it will need to be called over and excited. To this end those who think meet to make use of these Directions, may do well to acquaint themselves with the true nature of a Sabbatical Rest, from what hath been before discoursed. It will afford them other work for Faith and Thankfulness, than is usually taken notice of, by them who have no other notion of it, than merely a portion of Time set apart unto the solemn Worship of God. There are other mysteries of God and his Love, other Directions for our Obedience unto God in it, than are commonly taken notice of. By these means the ends of preparatory Duties above mentioned, will be effected; the Mind will be filled with due reverential apprehensions of God on the one hand, and disentangled on the other from those cares of the world, and other cumbersome thoughts, wherewith the occasions of life may have possessed it.

Again; the Day it self and its sacred Services are to be thought upon. The Priviledges that we are made partakers of thereby; the Advantages that are in the Duties of it, and the Duties themselves required of us, should be well digested in our minds. And where we have an habitual apprehension of them, yet it will need to be called over and excited. To this end those who think meet to make use of these Directions, may do well to acquaint themselves with the true nature of a Sabbatical Rest, from what hath been before discoursed. It will afford them other work for Faith and Thankfulness, than is usually taken notice of, by them who have no other notion of it, than merely a portion of Time set apart unto the solemn Worship of God. There are other mysteries of God and his Love, other Directions for our Obedience unto God in it, than are commonly taken notice of. By these means the ends of preparatory Duties above mentioned, will be effected; the Mind will be filled with due reverential apprehensions of God on the one hand, and disentangled on the other from those cares of the world, and other cumbersome thoughts, wherewith the occasions of life may have possessed it.