The saints everlasting rest

The seasons of this duty are either, First, ordinary: or, Secondly, extraordinary.

First, The ordinary season of your daily performance cannot be particularly determined, otherwise GOD would have determined in his word. Men's conditions of employment, and freedom, and bodily temper, are so various, that the same may be a seasonable hour to one, which may be unseasonable to another. If thou be a servant, or an hard labourer, that thou hast not thy time at command, thou must take that season which thy business will best afford: either as thou sittest in the shop at thy work, or as thou travellest on the way, or as thou liest waking in the night. Every man best knows his own time, even when he hath the least to hinder him in the world: but for those whose necessities tie them not so close, but that they may choose what time of the day they will, my advice to such is, that they carefully observe the temper of their body and mind, and mark when they find their spirits most active and fit for contemplation, and pitch upon that as the stated time. Some men are freest for duties when they are fasting, and some are then unfittest of all. Every man is the meetest judge for himself. The time I have always found fittest for myself, is, the evening, from sun-setting to the twilight; and sometime in the night when it is warm and clear.

The LORD'S day is a time exceeding seasonable for this exercise. When should we more seasonably contemplate on rest, than on that day which doth typify it to us? Neither do I think that typifying use is ceased, because the antitype is not fully come. However it being a day appropriated to worship and spiritual duties, we should never exclude this duty, which is so eminently spiritual. I think verily this is the chief work of a christian sabbath, and most agreeable to the intent of its positive institution. What fitter time to converse with our LORD, than on that day which he hath appropriated to such employment, and therefore called it the LORD'S day? What fitter day to ascend to heaven, than that on which our LORD did arise from earth, and fully triumph over death and hell, and take possession of heaven before us?