A69076:1071
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
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A. Great: for we should lay our selves down to rest in greater quietness that night, upon the sense and feeling of the comforts of the former exercises: So that our sleep should be the more quiet, by how much the former exercises of the day have been more holy; otherwise we should declare we have not kept a day to the Lord, so holy as we ought.
A. Great: for wee should lay our selues downe to rest in greater quietnesse that night, vpon the sense and feeling of the comforts of the former exercises: So that our sleepe should bee the more quiet, by how much the former exercises of the day haue been more holy; otherwise we should declare wee haue not kept a day to the Lord, so holy as we ought.
Q. So much of the Commandment. What are the reasons to enforce the Commandment?
Q. So much of the Commandement. VVhat are the reasons to inforce the Commandement?
A. The first is, a secret reason of comparison of the less: that for so much as God hath given us six days of seven to do our own business in (whether it be labour, or honest Recreation), when he might have given us but one of seven, and have taken six to himself; ⟨p. 118⟩we ought not to think it much, to spend the whole seventh day in his service.
A. The first is, a secret reason of comparison of the lesse: that for so much as God hath giuen vs six daies of seuen to do our owne businesse in (whether it bee labour, or honest Recreation), when hee might haue giuen vs but one of seuen, and haue taken sixe to himselfe; ⟨p. 118⟩