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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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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.
3. It is against Scriptures, Exod. 20. 8. Remember the Sabaoth-Day to keep it Holy; where we are commanded to keep holy the Lords Day, as I learn out of Authors Zanchy on the fourth Commandment, we keep holy ⟨p. 77⟩the Lords Day and Sanctify it; Junius in Animadvers. in Bellar. Controv. Lib. 7. Cap. 10. The Lords Day answereth to the Sabaoth and its proportionable to it, and is commanded in