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The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature…
The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature and necessity of it is discovered. : As also the Christian directed how he may perform it in [brace] religious duties, natural actions, his particular vocation, his family directions, and his own recreations. / By George Swinnock ...
London: printed for T.P., 1662
Treatise › Chapter 21: How to exercise our selves to godliness on a Lords Day.
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.
On the Lords Day we go into Gods Sanctuary, and his pleasure is, that we reverence his Sanctuary, Levit. 19.30. The Jews indeed made a great stir about their outward reverencing the Temple: 1They tell us, they were not to go in with a staff, nor shoes, nor to spit in it, nor when they went away, to turn their backs upon it, but go sideling, Ezek. 8.16. but certainly Gods meaning is principally, that we do with inward reverence and seriousness worship him in his Sanctuary.
- 1Willet in loc.
Reader, I desire thee to take notice, that the more holy any action is, the more heedful thou oughtest to be about it: Upon which account, the duties of this day require extraordinary diligence; for they have a double die of holiness upon them, they are double gilt: Thy task on that ⟨p. 338⟩day, or the exercises thereof, are of Divine Institution, and so is the time, the day: Thou hast Gods hand and seal to the duties, he commands thee to pray, hear, sing, meditate, receive the Sacrament; and thou hast also Gods hand and seal to the day, Acts 20.7. 1 Cor. 16.2. Revel. 1.10. It is considerable, that in the fourth Command, God doth not say, Remember the seventh day, to keep it holy; but, Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy; this Zanchy takes great notice of: further, the seventh, or a seventh, is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; so then the morality of that Command is one day of even. The Jews seventh day was buried in Christs grave, though its shadow walked a little while after. Take heed how thou observest this day, Gods eye is very much upon thy behaviour in his house; therefore in the Tabernacle, the place of public worship, it was commanded,