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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.
Do thou all the day long live and walk as it were in the other World; Make it a Sabbath, a day of rest. 1. From sin and wickedness, this is thy duty every day, but especially on this day; Every sin on a Sabbath is double, the season is a great aggravation of the sin. The wicked indeed are like the raging Sea, which cannot rest, but every day bubble up mire and dirt, Isa. 57.20. 2. From the World and the works of thy calling; Ye shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy unto you. Every one that defileth it, shall surely be put to death; for whosoever doth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people, Exod. 31.14. The Jews were to rest from works of least importance, as gathering sticks (he that fetched in sticks, was sent out of the World with stones) and of greatest concernment, as building the Tabernacle; and though the Christian now hath more liberty, yet he hath no leave at all to pollute the day by wickedness, or ⟨p. 374⟩to profane the day by any earthly work which might have been done before the day, or may be done as well after it.
Do thou all the day long live and walk as it were in the other World; Make it a Sabbath, a day of rest. 1. From sin and wickedness, this is thy duty every day, but especially on this day; Every sin on a Sabbath is double, the season is a great aggravation of the sin. The wicked indeed are like the raging Sea, which cannot rest, but every day bubble up mire and dirt, Isa. 57.20. 2. From the World and the works of thy calling; Ye shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy unto you. Every one that defileth it, shall surely be put to death; for whosoever doth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people, Exod. 31.14. The Jews were to rest from works of least importance, as gathering sticks (he that fetched in sticks, was sent out of the World with stones) and of greatest concernment, as building the Tabernacle; and though the Christian now hath more liberty, yet he hath no leave at all to pollute the day by wickedness, or ⟨p. 374⟩