Of the morality of the fourth commandment as still in force to bind Christians…Of the morality of the fourth commandement as still in force to binde Christians…

But the weekly Sabbath, was for pleasure and delight, but not for mans own pleasure, nor for the doing of their own ways. But to delight in the Lord, which is spiritual pleasure, and the recreating of our souls in the Lord: this is a blessed rest, thus to rest unto him; and the word of God is the best food of the soul; No recreates like unto Gods holy ordinances. Of wisdom ⟨p. 243⟩it is said, that her ways are the ways of pleasantness. I willingly confess, that to the natural man, as the things of God are foolishness, so the word of God is a reproach unto him, he ¹hath no delight in it. He delights rather in carnal pleasures; ²and is it fit to humour him in such courses, and that on the ³Lords day? our Saviour expressly tells us, that The pleasures of ⁴life choke the word, and make it become unfruitful: Therefore it no way fits a man to Gods Service; And if way be opened to such courses, though not till after evening prayer; as many as are taken with them, will have their minds running upon them, so as to say, when will the Sabbath be gone, and the time of Divine service be over? that so they may come to their sports, as well as covetous persons longed after the like, that they may return to their trading. A natural man, before his calling is described unto us in Scripture, to be such a one as served lusts and diverse pleasures, and the wicked are said to ⁵spend their days in pleasure; and such are they, whom the Prophet ⁶describeth after this manner, Hear now thou that art given ⁷to pleasure. As for the children of God, as they are renewed in their affections generally, so the matter of their delight is much altered; His delight is in the Law of the Lord; as Christ