A53694:492
Exercitations concerning the name, original, nature, use, and continuance of a day of sacred…
Exercitations concerning the name, original, nature, use, and continuance of a day of sacred rest wherein the original of the Sabbath from the foundation of the world, the morality of the Fourth commandment with the change of the Seventh day are enquired into : together with an assertion of the divine institution of the Lord's Day, and practical directions for its due observation / by John Owen.
London: printed by R.W. for Nath. Ponder, 1671
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.
4. Labour in works of charity and necessity, such as are to visit the sick, to relieve the poor, to help the distressed, to relieve or assist Creatures ready to perish, to supply Cattle with necessary food, is allowed by all, and hath been by many spoken unto.
4. Labour in works of charity and necessity, such as are to visit the sick, to relieve the poor, to help the distressed, to relieve or assist Creatures ready to perish, to supply Cattel with necessary food, is allowed by all, and hath been by many spoken unto.
5. For Sports and such like Recreations, and their use on this Day, I refer the Reader to Laws of sundry Emperors and Nations concerning them. See of Constant. leg. omnes cap. de Feriis. Theodosius and Arcadius ibid. and of Leo and Authemius, in the same place of the Code; of Charles the Great, Capitular. lib. 1. cap. 81. lib. 5. cap. 188. The Sum of them all is contained in that Exhortation which Ephraim Syrus expresseth in his Serm. de diebus Festis. Festivitates Dominicas honorare studiose contendite, celebrantes eas non panegyrice, sed divine; non mundane, sed spiritualiter; non instar Gentilium, sed Christianorum. Quare non portarum frontes coronemus; non choreaes ducamus, non choram exornemus; non tibiis & citharis auditum affaeminemus, non mollibus vestibus induamur, nec cingulis undique auro radiantibus cingamur; non comessationibus & ebrietatibus dediti simus, verum ista relinquamus eis quorum Deus venter est, & gloria in confusione justorum.
5. For Sports and such like Recreations, and their use on this Day, I referr the Reader to Laws of sundry Emperors and Nations concerning them. See of Constant. leg. omnes cap. de Feriis. Theodosius and Arcadius ibid. and of Leo and Authemius, in the same place of the Code; of Charles the Great, Capilular. lib. 1. cap. 81. lib. 5. cap. 188. The Sum of them all is contained in that Exhortation which Ephram Syrus expresseth in his Serm. de diebus Festis. Festivitates Dominicas honorare studiose contendite, celebrantes eas non panegyrice, sed divine; non mundane, sed spiritualiter; non instar Gentilium, sed Christianorum. Quare non portarum frontes coronemus; non choreaes ducamus, non choram exornemus; non tibiis & citharis auditum affaeminemus, non mollibus vestibus induamur, nec cingulis undique auro radiantibus cingamur; non comessationibus & ebrietatibus dediti simus, verum ista relinquamus eis quorum Deus venter est, & gloria in confusione justorum.