A65285:2117
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I. In the Command, 1. The Matter of it, viz. The sanctifying of the Sabbath, which Sabbath-Sanctification consists in two things.
First, In resting from our own Works.
Secondly, In a Conscientious Discharge of our Religious Duties.
2. The Persons to whom the Command of sanctifying the Sabbath is given, (1.) Either Superiors, and they are 1st. More Private, as Parents and Masters. Or, 2ly. More Public, as Magistrates. Or, (2.) Inferiors. First, Natives, as Children and Servants, Thy Son and thy Daughter, thy Man-Servant and thy Maid Servant. Secondly, Foreigners, The Stranger that is within thy Gates.
2. The Persons to whom the Command of sanctifying the Sabbath is given, (1.) Either Superiours, and they are 1st. More Private, as Parents and Masters. Or, 2ly. More Publique, as Magistrates. Or, (2.) Inferiours. First, Natives, as Children and Servants, Thy Son and thy Daughter, thy Man-Servant and thy Maid Servant. Secondly, Foreigners, The Stranger that is within thy Gates.