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Let no worldly Business be contrived or mentioned or done that Day, which might have been done before, or may be done after without plain Prejudice. It was the Men of Tyre that sold their Wares on the Sabbath, whom Nehemiah repressed, Neh. 13. 16, 20, 21. and command your Families from straggling, or foolish Sports that day: ⟨p. 208⟩beware how you give them Liberty that Day, because you can best spare them, to see their Friends, or to be out of your sight; for that Day, and that Way, multitudes of them are undone; but let them spend that Day in God's House, and in your own. Examine them of the state of their Souls, of their Proficience that Day, and seriously catechize the younger sort in the Principle; of Religion. O let not your Children's Souls be neglected, while you pamper and deck their Bodies; but show them the evil of Sin, and the beauty of Holiness; convince them of their woeful State by Nature, and mind them of the Vow which they are under in their Baptism; let them see you in the Pangs of Travel for them, till Christ be formed in them: you have time for this upon this Day; and you are bound in Equity and Piety, to recover them out of that Condition, into which you have brought them: put good Books into their Hands and talk with them about Regeneration, and explain the Catechism to them; that, being well grounded in the Principles of Religion, they may rationally embrace the Practice of it.

Let no worldly Business be contrived or mention'd or done that Day, which might have been done before, or may be done after without plain Prejudice. It was the Men of Tyre that sold their Wares on the Sabbath, whom Nehemiah represt, Neh. 13. 16, 20, 21. and command your Families from stragling, or foolish Sports that day: ⟨p. 208⟩beware how you give them Liberty that Day, because you can best spare them, to see their Friends, or to be out of your sight; for that Day, and that Way, multitudes of them are undone; but let them spend that Day in God's House, and in your own. Examine them of the state of their Souls, of their Proficience that Day, and scriously catechize the younger sort in the Principle; of Religion. O let not your Childrens Souls be neglected, while you pamper and deck their Bodies; but show them the evil of Sin, and the beauty of Holiness; convince them of their woful State by Nature, and mind them of the Vow which they are under in their Baptism; let them see you in the Pangs of Travel for them, till Christ be form'd in them: you have time for this upon this Day; and you are bound in Equity and Piety, to recover them out of that Condition, into which you have brought them: put good Books into their Hands and talk with them about Regeneration, and explain the Catechism to them; that, being well grounded in the Principles of Religion, they may rationally imbrace the Practice of it.