Christianus per ignem. Or, A disciple warming of himself and owning of his Lord:…

Well then; If it were no Fault in me, to kindle my Fire on the Lords-Day, certainly 'twill be no Fault in me, if my zeal to keep the Lords Day, be now enkindled into a vehement Flame. If the Question were put unto a Christian in the Primitive Times, Dominisum Servasts? Do you keep the Lords Day? His Answer would be, Christianus sum, intermittere non possum, I am a Christian, and therefore I dare do no other. Truly our Christianity obliges us to keep the Lords-Day; and our Christianity will either Flourish or Wither, according to our keeping of it. While I have my Fire now before me, to preserve me from chilling in the Devotions of the Lords Day, I will venture to say, The Lords Day, is as a Fire unto all our other Devotions. It is a sad Remark, to be made upon too many Churches of the Reformation, which in this point want ⟨p. 117⟩still very much to be Reformed. They indulge themselves in loose Principles, and in loose Practices, about the Lords Day; and it is to be observed, That the Holy Religion of our Lord, which is this Day, most of all to be Inculcated as well as Exemplified, has by this looseness of theirs been exceedingly damnified; There is too little of the Power of Godliness to be seen in those Churches, tho' the Doctrine of Godliness be still held and preached among them. They have called, The strict Celebration of the Lords; Day, Figmentum Anglicanum, an English Fiction. But it is no Fiction, that England & Scotland where the Lords Day is kept better than in the other Nations of Europe, have had more of the Power of Godliness, than all the other Nations. And those other Nations, as they have broken Gods Rest, so God has broken Theirs; astonishing plagues have been disresting, and distressing of them. A Worthy Divine, as many years ago as the Days of my Grandfather, seeing in Print, an humble Confession of the Sins, that had brought upon Germany the Troubles then harassing of it, said, I see the Troubles of Germany are not over yet, I see no Confession of their Sabbath breaking! And the Event has confirmed it. If we would Thrive on Temporal Accounts, we shall find the due Celebration of the Lords Day very much contribute unto it. It is said, If thou call the Sabbath a Delight, and the Holy of ⟨p. 118⟩the Lord, I will cause thee to Ride upon the Might places of the Earth.

Well then; If it were no Fault in me, to kindle my Fire on the Lords-Day, certainly 'twill be no Fault in me, if my zeal to keep the Lords Day, be now enkindled into a vehement Flame. If the Question were put unto a Christian in the Primitive Times, Dominisum Servasts? Do you keep the Lords Day? His Answer would be, Christianus sum, intermittere non possum, I am a Christian, and therefore I dare do no other. Truly our Christianity obliges us to keep the Lords-Day; and our Christianity will either Flourish or Wither, according to our keeping of it. While I have my Fire now before me, to preserve me from chilling in the Devotions of the Lords Day, I will venture to say, The Lords Day, is as a Fire unto all our other Devotions. It is a sad Remark, to be made upon too many Churches of the Reformation, which in this point want