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The life and death of Mr. Tho. Wilson, minister of Maidstone, in the county…
The life and death of Mr. Tho. Wilson, minister of Maidstone, in the county of Kent, M.A.
London? : s.n., 1672
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ARTICLES Objected against Mr. Tho. Wilson, Minister of Otham in Ken… › Article 6 › RESP.
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Secondly, In the Liturgy, a Minister in enjoined to read the fourth Commandment, Remember thou keep Holy the Sabaoth Day; and all are to entreat Gods Mercy, to incline their hearts to keep this Law, Ps. 118. 24. is appointed to be read on Easter day, as proper to it, it shows, V. 24. This is the day which the Lord hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in it, so that the Lord instituted it.
Secondly, In the Liturgy, a Minister in enjoyned to read the fourth Commandment, Remember thou keep Holy the Sabbaoth Day; and all are to intreat Gods Mercy, to incline their hearts to keep this Law, Ps. 118. 24. is appointed to be read on Easter day, as proper to it, it shews, V. 24. This is the day which the Lord hath made, we will rejoyce and be glad in it, so that the Lord instituted it.
Thirdly, In the Exhortation, fit for the time upon the Fast-days 1625. declaring the apparent cause of the Plague, saith the Lords Day is not kept holy but polluted, and the Ministry of the Word despised, and in the end of that Book mention is made of Plays, Pastimes, Idleness, Drunkenness, the proper sins of our Nation, which pulled Gods wrath upon us, and I dare not by reading seem to allow, what did bring the Plague of God on the Land that year.
Thirdly, In the Exhortation, fit for the time upon the Fast-days 1625. declaring the apparent cause of the Plague, saith the Lords Day is not kept holy but polluted, and the Ministry of the Word despised, and in the end of that Book mention is made of Playes, Pastimes, Idleness, Drunkenness, the proper sins of our Nation, which pulled Gods wrath upon us, and I dare not by reading seem to allow, what did bring the Plague of God on the Land that year.