A69076:1045
A treatise of Christian religion
A treatise of Christian religion. Or, the whole body and substance of divinity. By T.C.A treatise of Christian religion. Or, the whole bodie and substance of diunintie. By T.C.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, 1616
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.
A. To teach us, that all sorts and degrees of persons are bound to yield a duty unto God in sanctifying the Sabbath.
A. To teach vs, that all sorts and degrees of persons are bound to yeeld a duty vnto God in sanctifying the Sabbath.
Q. Was not this ordained to this end, that beasts might sometime rest, and that servants (especially) might have some time for honest recreation, without which they could not otherwise continue.
Q. Was not this ordained to this end, that beasts might sometime rest, and that seruants (especially) might haue some time for honest recreation, without which they could not otherwise continue.
A. Some think so, but there is little or no ground for such an opinion: for the wearying and toiling out of servants, and beasts, is against the sixth Commandment. And work is here forbidden, that men might be the more free for the worship of God; and therefore though servants had never so much rest and recreation upon other days, yet they ought to rest upon this day in that regard.
A. Some thinke so, but there is little or no ground for such an opinion: for the wearying and toyling out of seruants, and beasts, is against the sixth Commandement. And worke is here forbidden, that men might be the more free for the worship of God; and therefore though seruants had neuer so much rest and recreation vpon other daies, yet they ought to rest vpon this day in that regard.