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And then for your Servants, both Apprentices and others: Do you think it is sufficient, that they do your Work faithfully? Have not they most precious Souls? and have not you the charge of them? can you find in your Hearts to suffer them to live, and for ought you know die, in a State of Ignorance and Unregeneracy? Where are your Bowels of Compassion? Alas you should have the same care of their Souls, as you have of your own Children! You allow to your ⟨p. 209⟩Beasts Food and Lodging for their Work, and will you treat Christians no otherwise? on this day you have time, if you have but Hearts, to call them to you, and to enquire into their Spiritual Condition: and never to give them rest, until you have (with God's help) cured their Ignorance and Vices, or find them incurable. Lose not therefore a minute of that precious Time, make it as long a day as any of the rest; and when it is done, long for another Sabbath. And heartily bless the Lord, that he hath given you such a merciful Release from the Labours of your Body, and the Cares of your Mind, and withal blest you with a Market-day for your Souls. I say, bless him, and let the Voice of Praise and singing Psalms be heard in the Righteous Man's Dwellings. A joyful Sabbath is the Suburbs of Heaven.

And then for your Servants, both Apprentices and others: Do you think it is sufficient, that they do your Work faithfully? Have not they most precious Souls? and have not you the charge of them? can you find in your Hearts to suffer them to live, and for ought you know die, in a State of Ignorance and Unregeneracy? Where are your Bowels of Compassion? Alas you should have the same care of their Souls, as you have of your own Children! You allow to your ⟨p. 209⟩Beasts Food and Lodging for their Work, and will you treat Christians no otherwise? on this day you have time, if you have but Hearts, to call them to you, and to enquire into their Spiritual Condition: and never to give them rest, until you have (with God's help) cur'd their Ignorance and Vices, or find them incurable. Lose not therefore a minute of that precious Time, make it as long a day as any of the rest; and when it is done, long for another Sabbath. And heartily bless the Lord, that he hath given you such a merciful Release from the Labours of your Body, and the Cares of your Mind, and withal blest you with a Market-day for your Souls. I say, bless him, and let the Voice of Praise and singing Psalms be heard in the Righteous Man's Dwellings. A joyful Sabbath is the Suburbs of Heaven.