A65285:2121
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
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II. The Cogent Arguments to obey this Command of keeping Holy the Sabbath, 1. From the Rationality of it —Six Days shalt thou labour, and do all thy Work: As if God had said, I am not an hard Master, I do not grutch thee time to look after thy Calling, and to get an Estate. I have given thee Six Days, Six to do all thy Work in, and have taken but one Day for my self: I might have reserved Six Days for my self, and allowed thee but one; but I have given thee Six Days for the Works of thy Calling, and have taken but One Day for my own Service; therefore it is equal and rational, that thou shouldst set this Day in a special manner apart for my Worship.
2. The Second Argument is taken from, 2ly. The Justice of it. The Seventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: As if God had said, The Sabbath-Day is my Due, I challenge a special Right in it, and none hath any thing to do to lay claim to it. He who robs me of THIS DAY, and puts it to common Uses, is a Sacrilegious Person, he steals from the Crown of Heaven, and I will in no wise hold him guiltless.
2. The Second Argument is taken from, 2ly. The Iustice of it. The Seventh Day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: As if God had said, The Sabbath-Day is my Due, I challenge a special Right in it, and none hath any thing to do to lay claim to it. He who robs me of THIS DAY, and puts it to common Uses, is a Sacrilegious Person, he steals from the Crown of Heaven, and I will in no wise hold him guiltless.
3. The Third Argument for sanctifying the Sabbath, is taken from God's own Pattern, he rested the Seventh Day. As if the Lord should say, Will not you follow my Pattern? Having finished all my Works of Creation, I rested the Seventh Day. So you having done all your Secular Work on the Six Days, you should now cease from the Labour of your Calling, and Dedicate the Seventh Day to the Lord as a Day of Holy Rest.