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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.
The preparation for the Lords day, consisteth partly in care so to order Worldly businesses, that they may not encroach on the Sabbath; Some expositors observe that the word Remember, in the fourth Command, enjoineth a provident foresight and diligent dispatch of earthly affairs on the day before, that nothing may remain to disquiet us in, or disturb Gods day of rest; There is an observable place, If thou keep thy foot from my Sabbath, Isa. 58.13. that is from treading on my holy ground with the dirty feet of earthly affairs, or affections. The Jews preparation began at three of the clock in the afternoon, 1which the Hebrews called the ⟨p. 344⟩Sabbath Eve; The ancient Fathers called Caena pura, from the Heathen (say some) whose Religion taught them in their Sacrifices to certain of their Gods, to prepare themselves by a strict kind of holiness, at which time they had a Supper consisting of meats holy in their opinion.
The preparation for the Lords day, consisteth partly in care so to order Worldly businesses, that they may not incroach on the Sabbath; Some expositours observe that the word Remember, in the fourth Command, enjoyneth a provident foresight and diligent dispatch of earthly affairs on the day before, that nothing may remain to disquiet us in, or disturb Gods day of rest; There is an observable place, If thou keep thy foot from my Sabbath, Isa. 58.13. that is from treading on my holy ground with the dirty feet of earthly affairs, or affections. The Jews preparation began at three of the clock in the afternoon, 1which the Hebrews called the ⟨p. 344⟩Sabbath Eve; The antient Fathers called Caena pura, from the Heathen (say some) whose Religion taught them in their Sacrifices to certain of their Gods, to prepare themselves by a strict kind of holiness, at which time they had a Supper consisting of meats holy in their opinion.