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<P><HI>Dies Dominicus Redivivus,</HI> OR, The Lords Day Enlivened.</P>
<P>OR A TREATISE, As to di&s;cover the practical part of the Evangelical Sabbath:</P>
<P>So to recover the &s;piritual part of that Pious Practice to its primitive life: Lamentably lo&s;t, in the&s;e la&s;t Declining times.</P>
<P>By PHILIP GOODVVIN <HI>M. A.</HI> Preacher of the Go&s;pel, and Pa&s;tour of the publike Congregation at <HI>Watford</HI> in Hart|ford &s;hire.</P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Mark 2 7.</HI></BIBL> The Son of man is Lord al&s;o of the Sabbath.</Q>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Luk. 4.16.</HI></BIBL> And Je&s;us camt to Nazareth, and went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath day as his cu&s;tome was.</Q>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>Ed. Calamy.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>J. L.</HI> for <HI>Andrew Ke<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">be</HI> and are to be &s;old at his Shop over again&s;t St. Margarets-hill in Southwark, 1654.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE VVor&s;hipful the Ju&s;tices of the Peace adjacent.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_AS the <HI>mo&s;t high God</HI> hath &s;et you up to be &s;u|preame per&s;ons in the places of your aboade: &s;o he hath been plea&s;ed to put precious oppor|tunities into your hands for the honour|ing of him as <HI>Chri&s;tian Magi&s;trates.</HI> Now among the many things requi&s;ite for <HI>Religious Magi&s;trates</HI> that they may honour the mo&s;t high <HI>God,</HI> menti|on I &s;hall onely make
<Q><L><HI>Of Knowledge, and Courage.</HI></L>
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<L>Knowledge to examine and &s;tate things right;</L>
<L>Courage to determine and act right things.</L></Q></P>
<P>Knowledge as the eye &s;eeing what is ju&s;t to be done; Courage as the hand doing what is &s;een to be ju&s;t. If cou|rage be without knowledge, the <HI>eye of ju&s;tice</HI> is blind: If knowledge be with|out courage, <HI>the &s;word of ju&s;tice</HI> is blunt. Though your knowledge I do not que&s;tion: yet your courage I would quicken. And therefore I hum|bly be&s;eech you to con&s;ider, <HI>In what ca&s;es,</HI> And <HI>for what cau&s;es,</HI> courage is comely in every Chri&s;tian Magi&s;trate. The ca&s;es that require courage, are either <HI>Civil</HI> or <HI>Religious.</HI> Civil ca&s;es that tend to the good of the body Poli|tick. Religious ca&s;es <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat tend to the good of the body Eccle&s;ia&s;tick. The&s;e ca|&s;es la&s;t are not the lea&s;t. Yea, as the Church is more excellent then the Common-Wealth, &s;o a Chri&s;tian Ma|gi&s;trate is more to mind the affairs of Gods Church, then the concernments of
<PB REF="3"> any civil State.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Magis miror <HI>Davidem</HI> &s;allantem quam pug|n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">tem.</NOTE> Hence <HI>Gregory</HI> pro|fe&s;&s;ed, <HI>he did more commend</HI> David <HI>dancing before the Ark, then fight|ing with the Phili&s;tines.</HI> All his courage in conquering enemies, was not like his zeal for Religion, and the holy wor&s;hip of God. <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> having brought I&s;rael out of Egypt,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Romae</HI> qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|tie &s;cunque Senatus co|g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ur, nulla de re prius qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters"> de relig<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">one ageba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. <HI>Varro.</HI> lib. <HI>14.</HI> cap. <HI>17.</HI></NOTE> before he &s;ettled the Common-Wealth, he pre&s;cribed the way of Gods wor&s;hip. Our dear Lord little looked after Civil Judicature, but much laboured <HI>the purging of the Temple. Tis Religion</HI> as <HI>Lactan|tius oft teacheth that maintains humane Societies, civil Subordinati|ons,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Lact.</HI> de vera &s;epi|ent lib <HI>4.</HI> cap. <HI>4.</HI></NOTE> <HI>which otherwi&s;e could not &s;ub|&s;i&s;t, but &s;avage cruelties and &s;en&s;ual impieties would pull all in pieces.</HI> Yea, there is no State, City, or Town, but it pro&s;pers in temporals, according as Religion and things that relate to God are nouri&s;hed, and do flouri&s;h.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dilexi vi|rum, qui cum corpor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;olveretur, magis de &s;tatu Eccle|&s;iarum quam de propriis pe|riculis an|g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tur. <HI>Ambro&s;.</HI> in vit. <HI>Theo|do&s;ii.</HI></NOTE> See <HI>Hag. 1.</HI> God bids &s;ome con&s;ider whe|ther they did not thrive, according as they promoted the building of the Tem|ple. How well went it with the Com|mon-Wealth
<PB REF="4"> of I&s;rael when <HI>Jo&s;iah</HI> and <HI>Jeho&s;haphat</HI> be&s;tirred them in a Reli|gious reformation? And how was <HI>So|lomons</HI> and <HI>Rehoboams</HI> Kingdome &s;haken when they did not regard Reli|gion, but corrupted the wor&s;hip of God, leaving the things of God to lie naked and open to enemies and evils. <HI>The Gold, blue &s;ilk, and purple</HI> would ne|ver have been &s;o &s;afe, or &s;hined &s;o well within the <HI>Tabernacle</HI> had not the out&s;ide been covered <HI>with red skins and Goats hair.</HI> Such a &s;helter ought Magi&s;tracy to be to Gods Church and all the things of Religion therein, whereby they may the better, and the brighter &s;hine. And as the care and courage of Magi&s;trates ought to be mo&s;t in the matters of God: So among them their zeal ought to be mo&s;t earne&s;t in the matter of the Sabbath. The Sabbath ob&s;erved, is the <HI>Compendium</HI> and <HI>Epitome</HI> of the whole practice of Piety. As the tran&s;gre&s;sion of the Sabbath is the violation of the whole Law of God. When the people of I&s;rael went to ga|ther
<PB REF="4"> Manna on the day of the Sabbath, God makes his complaint to <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> their Magi&s;trate, &s;aying, <HI>Exod. 16.18. How long will they refu&s;e to keep my Commandements, and to obey my Lawes? Lawes</HI> and <HI>Comman|dements,</HI> in the plural: In that they broke the <HI>Command of the Sabbath</HI> God accounts it as a breach of all his Commandements, and a &s;in again&s;t all his concernments: This <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> is to be affected with. And therefore all that are in office under God, ought to be mo&s;t burning in zeal again&s;t Sabbath-&s;ins &amp; &s;inners, and for due ob&s;erving the day of the Sabbath. Such was the zeal of the fir&s;t and be&s;t reformers, as we find in Scripture,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eu&s;eb. <HI>lib.</HI> 3. <HI>cap.</HI> 10. Socrat. <HI>lib.</HI> 5. Ru&s;&s;in. <HI>Ecc. bi. lib.</HI> 2. <HI>Gen.</HI> 3.24. The Magi|&s;trates duty in this point. See Pag. 132, 133, 134.</NOTE> and in the Hi&s;tories of all ages. In this ca&s;e therefore of the Lords day in the Lords Name, let me call upon you who about us bear the ci|vil &s;word to be towards this Go&s;pel Sab|bath <HI>(as the Cherubims with their flaming &s;word towards that tree in Paradi&s;e)</HI> pre&s;erving the way thereof, and ob&s;erving the work therein, <HI>&amp;c.</HI>
<PB REF="5"> SIRS, &s;o far as po&s;sibly you can draw out your care, and lift up your courage &s;o as to be a wall of fire for this dayes defence, that on this day the vi&s;ible parts of Gods wor&s;hip be performed, and therefore that the places of Gods wor|&s;hip be diligently frequented. As I would be&s;eech your zeal again&s;t the principal places of Satans &s;ervice, I mean <HI>Rotten Alehou&s;es</HI> the Suburbs &amp; Seminaries of Hell, the Nurceries of &s;in, and Synagogues of &s;inners: &s;o for the places (within your precincts) of Gods publick wor&s;hip. The wor&s;hip of God in publick upon the Lords day by your per&s;onal pre&s;ence, and by your Magi&s;teriall power expre&s;&s;e how much you prize. No marvel <HI>David</HI> had &s;uch a de&s;ire to build a hou&s;e to God, when he cryes out, <HI>P&s;al. 84. How ami|able are thy Tabernacles, O Lord! Ble&s;&s;ed are they that dwell in thy hou&s;e,</HI> &amp;c. How you highly e&s;teeme the publick Ordinances of God declared by your clo&s;e endeavours to &s;upport both the DAY, and the place of their publick u&s;e.</P>
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<P><HI>The cau&s;es</HI> that may encourage zeal <HI>in the&s;e ca&s;es,</HI> mount your minds and rai&s;e your &s;pirits for God and all that is Gods, <HI>His Sabbaths and &s;ervice.</HI> I be&s;eech you ob&s;erve,
<Q><L>How hereto you are bound, and</L>
<L>How herein you are backed.</L></Q></P>
<P>You are bound that about the&s;e things above all you burn in zeal. Hath not God bound you? And have not you bound your &s;elves? God hath bound you not onely as men, but as Magi&s;trates by his holy commands to mind the matters of Religion before all other things in the world, <HI>Deut. 16.17, 18.</HI> We &s;ee what Injunctions are &s;et upon the <HI>Supreame Magi&s;trate</HI> in this regard, and there|fore Magi&s;trates &s;ubordinate are chiefly to &s;ee to &s;uch things, above all to look that the dayes and duties of Gods wor|&s;hip be carefully kept up, by all <HI>within the Gates,</HI> as of their <HI>Dome&s;tick,</HI> &s;o of their <HI>Civil</HI> Juri&s;diction, <HI>Exod. 20.10.</HI> Yea, you kave bound your &s;elves by &s;o|lemn oathes. Though civil things are principally expre&s;&s;ed, yet all is in order
<PB REF="6"> to a higher end and greater good. True, &s;ome Magi&s;trates, as <HI>Jehu,</HI> and <HI>Jero|boam,</HI> have made the matters of God &s;ubordinate to their own intere&s;ts and the outward peace of their kingdoms, but it hath ever proved the fatal mi&s;|carriage of &s;uch mi&s;placing Governours. State-ends mu&s;t all be &s;ubordinate, the chief and uppermo&s;t end of all in power is to pre&s;erve <HI>the things of God.</HI> The main end therefore of all your engage|ments, is to maintain Gods wor&s;hip, his holy Sabbaths, and whatever &s;erves for his honour. As an oath hath a Divine Ground, &s;o it is for ends Divine. And though many &s;imple men that be brought before you di&s;cern God no more in oaths, then Chri&s;t in Sacraments, and therefore can take, yea, and break oaths (as <HI>Samp&s;on</HI> his Withs) at their wills; Yet what a &s;olemn and &s;acred thing an oath is you well know. Hereby you are bound, as to do ju&s;t things be|twixt man and man, &s;o to do things ju&s;t for God much more. And as you are bound, &s;o you are backed, and backed
<PB REF="6"> &s;o, as may well work up your warme&s;t courage in the cau&s;e of God, for the WAYES and DAYES of God. You are backed with good <HI>Lawes</HI> again&s;t all open offenders, and &s;een-Sabbath-&s;in|ners: Evil doers upon the Lords day. You are backed with the prayers of all Gods precious people, who pour out their hearts to God to pre&s;erve, ble&s;&s;e, and pro&s;per all pious Magi&s;trates by who&s;e means Godline&s;&s;e may be promoted a|mong&s;t men, <HI>1 Tim. 2.1, 2.</HI> You are backed with the promi&s;es of God, the pre&s;ence of God; God is with you, be valiant: Be valiant, for God is with you. <HI>The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour,</HI> &s;ayes the An|gel to <HI>Gideon,</HI> Judg. <HI>6.12. Be &s;trong and of a good courage,</HI> ayes God to Jo&s;hua, <HI>I will be with thee, I will not fail thee, nor for&s;ake thee: One|ly be thou &s;trong and very couragi|ous,</HI> Chap. <HI>1.</HI> ver&s;. <HI>5, 6, 7.</HI></P>
<P>And therefore, worthy <HI>SIRS,</HI> I be|&s;eech you again&s;t all encounters cloath your &s;elves with courage. You are to
<PB REF="7"> encourage others, (inferiour Officers are by your language, carriage, countenance, coun&s;el, commands, to become couragi|ous) and therefore be you your &s;elves full of fiery courage. The Audaciou&s;|ne&s;&s;e of men to &s;in, even Sabbath-&s;ins; And the dulne&s;&s;e of men even to Gods Sabbath-&s;ervice, calls loud for courage in Chri&s;tian Magi&s;trates. Our Savi|our had his &s;courge or whip, with which he drove men out of the Temple with their &s;heep and oxen from their buying and &s;elling: Magi&s;trates had need have their whips, <HI>penal Lawes in force</HI> to drive men into publick places of Gods pure wor&s;hip with their children and &s;er|vants to hearing Gods holy Word and other duties upon the Lords day. Good SIRS, &s;o far as you can put on with en|kindled courage. Such mu&s;t not be &s;oft wood, but heart of Oak, that are in the place of <HI>civil pillars;</HI> not men of ea&s;ie, facil, flexible, timorous natures; but men of unbended, unbia&s;&s;ed di&s;po&s;itions, re&s;olutions, full of fortitude, valour, magnanimity, and of Ma&s;culine &s;pirits,
<PB REF="7"> &amp;c. <HI>Theodoret</HI> hath a good ob&s;erva|tion upon that in <HI>Leviticus,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Levit. 4.22.27. <GAP DESC="foreign">, &amp;c.</NOTE> where the Ruler for his &s;in is enjoyned to offer an he-Goat, the private man a &s;he-Goat; for though the female may fit the ruled, yet the male mo&s;t &s;uites &s;uch as rule. Some think that hence <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> was termed, <HI>Revel. 12.</HI> the Churches Male or <HI>man-child,</HI> becau&s;e of his manly zeal for Gods Church, the Lords day, and all the affairs of the Go&s;pel.</P>
<P><HI>Gentlemen,</HI> I hope you bear with me, I conceive I am not excentrick, but move within my own &s;phere while I &s;eek to incite you with courage to &s;et to it for God.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Num. 10. Jo&s;hua 6.20.</NOTE> When of old the Armies of I&s;rael were to go out in Battel, the Prie&s;ts were to blow the trumpets. Tis meet for us that are Go&s;pel Mini&s;ters to be as Gods Trumpetters, or Drum|mers, to draw up the &s;pirits, &amp; rai&s;e the courage of all that are to engage on Gods &s;ide for Sabbaths, and all his &s;acred con|cernments again&s;t &s;inful men, among <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hich Magi&s;trates, and men in office
<PB REF="8"> mu&s;t have a main &s;troke. If I may by the&s;e expre&s;sions, and by this pre&s;ent Dedication more hearten you up for God, and more heighten your zeal for the beating down of &s;in, and well-being with us of Gods ble&s;&s;ed Sabbath: I have my de&s;ign,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Who am ready to &s;erve you in all &s;uch affairs,</HI> Philip Goodwin.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Watford,</HI> <DATE><HI>July 20. 1654.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Dear Chri&s;tian,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_A Quickening and a wakening <HI>provi|dence</HI> that appeared in the place of my abode about a year ago, put me then on publikely to preach and pre&s;&s;e the practical ob&s;er|vation of the <HI>Chri&s;tian-Sabbath.</HI> And though upon that &s;ad providential pa&s;&s;age, I thought it &s;ea&s;onable to &s;ay &s;omething upon that &s;ubject, yet at fir&s;t I onely intended two Sermons as one dayes exerci&s;e, but I found <HI>the Bread</HI> &s;o abundantly to multiply even in the breaking, that I could not but acknowlege the bounty of
<PB REF="9"> a Divine hand. Whereupon I pro|ceeded, and upon the &s;ame further in|&s;i&s;ted. That &s;oul-provi&s;ion which was therein made, though &s;ome hungrily received, yet others hungrily refu&s;ed, &s;o that I could not but clearly &s;ee
<Q><L>As God with,</L>
<L>So the Divel again&s;t.</L></Q></P>
<P>Which made me more to mind the matter. Hereupon having for di|vers dayes di&s;cour&s;ed, I was &s;oon after much moved to tran&s;cribe &s;ome Notes thereof by me that were very unlegible in their fir&s;t Draught. The&s;e after coming into the hands of &s;everal friends, they much encou|raged me further to communicate the &s;ame. I con&s;idering they were both Gracious, and Judicious, thought it might be the Lords voice, and that whereunto I ought to li&s;ten.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e con&s;idering of the mat|ter it &s;elf, I could not but confe&s;&s;e it might be of nece&s;&s;ary u&s;e in the con|cernments of the Sabbath. For
<PB REF="9"> whereas there are two &s;orts [Sab|bath-ward] who&s;e ca&s;e is &s;inful and &s;ad: So here are two parts apply|ing proper remedies for their reco|very and cure. He is not onely a &s;tranger, but a &s;tone in our Engli&s;h I&s;rael, who doth not &s;en&s;ibly di&s;cern, concerning Gods &s;acred Sabbath. As &s;ome putting off the practice of all good thereon: &s;o others not ex|pre&s;&s;ing any &s;pirit of life therein. As &s;ome &s;lighters of the Sabbath-day-duties: &s;o others &s;lighty in the duties of the Sabbath day. As &s;ome living in a fearful neglect: &s;o others re&s;ting in a formal di&s;charge of a few feeble and faint performan|ces. The former part is pertinent to put men on to the practice of Sab|bath-&s;ervice. The latter part is pertinent to pull men up, in the &s;er|vice of the Sabbath that they pra|cti&s;e. And indeed as the leavers of the Lords-day-duties: &s;o the live|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;&s;e in the duties of the Lords day,
<PB REF="10"> who would not condole their condi|tions, and endeavour to quicken their affections? The&s;e latter we as Mini|&s;ters &s;hould much lament, and if po|&s;&s;ible amend. The wonted way and day of Gods wor&s;hip how doth it wax old in our Land? Like <HI>David, when he was old and &s;tricken in years they covered him with cloathes, but he gat no heat; wherefore his &s;ervants &s;aid to him, Let there be &s;ought for my Lord the King a young Virgin, and let her &s;tand before the King, and let her cheri&s;h him, and let her lie in thy bo|&s;ome, that my Lord the King may get heat,</HI> 1 Kings 1.1, 2, 3.</P>
<P>'Tis not ordinary cloaths or bare outward Ordinances that will bring warmth into this ble&s;&s;ed day, that now &s;eems with us to wax old and cold. We mu&s;t &s;eek for the Spirit of God, the &s;pirit of duty, which as the &s;oul being brought into its bo|&s;ome will put new life, with warmth thereinto. And were but the Lords
<PB REF="10"> day thus recovered to its heat and health, other duties of Religion would not long lie &s;ick: yea, though all religious duties with divers lie dead in our dayes, yet if this live, they would live likewi&s;e. Of the lively Lords day, we may &s;ay as 'tis &s;aid of <HI>Eve,</HI> Gen. 3.20. <HI>She was the Mother of all living.</HI> As the Lord of the Sabbath is the Father: &s;o the Sabbath of the Lord is the Mother of all &s;piritual life. In the womb of a wel-&s;pent Sabbath are the mo&s;t vi|gorous and be&s;t &s;piritual conceptions. In the armes and by the brea&s;ts of &s;uch ble&s;&s;ed Sabbaths are born and brought up many new-born babes for God: yea, let the Spirit of the Lord &s;pring life in the Lords-day-duties and Mini&s;terial endeavours, how &s;oon would &s;unk Chri&s;tians, decaying and dying profe&s;&s;ors be fetched back that are going apace to the grave of Apo&s;ta&s;ie, And other rai&s;ed that are <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ven dead and buried in &s;in? Indeed
<PB REF="11"> &s;ome have &s;unk &s;o low, and (God-ward) been dead &s;o long, that we may &s;ay of them, as <HI>Martha</HI> of her brother, <HI>Lord, by this time he &s;tinketh,</HI> Joh. 11. yet we might look to &s;ee even &s;uch <HI>Lazaru&s;&s;es</HI> ari&s;e from their Sepul|chers of &s;in upon the &s;piritual living of Sabbaths and the &s;acred &s;ervice of God; &s;uch things I al&s;o con&s;idering, my encouragments have encrea&s;ed thus publickly to appear in this pre|&s;ent Treati&s;e. Yet (as great cau&s;e requireth) reflecting upon my many infirmities, cro&s;&s;e thoughts have &s;ometimes be&s;et me, not knowing what to do, but looking up to the Lord, at length I re&s;olved to let it go, con&s;idering likewi&s;e that the Lord oftentimes does great matters by li|tle and unlikely means. The Pro|phet was pulled out of a dark deep Dungeon by <HI>ca&s;t clouts and rotten rags</HI> that onely &s;eemed fit for the Dunghil, <HI>Jer.</HI> 38.11, 12, 13. If th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Lord will, my poor weak word
<PB REF="11"> may be &s;ome means to draw Sabbaths and &s;acred Ordinances out of tho&s;e Dungeons of contempt into which they &s;eem now to be ca&s;t. And therefore (good Reader) joyn with me in prayer, that a ble&s;&s;ing from above may abide this book, and that the great God of heaven would go with it from heart to heart, and make it &s;ome help to this holy Sabbaths and &s;ervants.</P>
<P>Now the good Lord put life into every leafe&punc; line and letter, and the Lord out of his goodne&s;&s;e more en|liven my &s;oul and thine,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Who am thine in the Lord glad to do thy &s;oul any good,</HI> Philip Goodwin.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE><HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 9. 1654.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="to the reader">
<PB REF="12">
<PB REF="12">
<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_THe matters of Almighty God, and of mans immor|tal &s;oul, are things of the greate&s;t concernment in all the world.</HI> This truth is in the ge|nerall readily acknowledged by all, and yet there is no one truth more con|tradicted by the con&s;tant cour&s;es of the mo&s;t of men. The bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of the Sab|bath is a convincing in&s;tance: for al|though Gods honour, and mens welfare are very much engaged herein; yet many in opinion, and more in their practice, do oppo&s;e the right ob&s;erva|tion thereof, as holy to the Lord. Fir&s;t, Gods concernment herein may many wayes be made manife&s;t. This is one
<PB REF="13"> of tho&s;e ten Commandements charged by the Creatour of heaven and earth up|on man:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eut. 4.13.</NOTE><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">o. 31.18.</NOTE> <HI>Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.</HI> And the engro&s;sing of this charge, God did not leave to any <HI>Amanuen&s;is,</HI> but he writ it with his own finger.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eut. 4.13. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;worth.</NOTE> Al&s;o to intimate that his intentions were to perpetuate this (with the other precepts of the <HI>Decalogue</HI>) in the morality thereof, the Lord him&s;elf imprinted it, (not in paper) but <HI>upon Tables</HI> of &s;tone: yea, when the fir&s;t <HI>Tables of &s;tone</HI> were broken,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">xo. 34.1, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">en. 2.2. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hald. Pa|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">phr. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a. 58.13. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oc ad <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eum, non <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d homines <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ferri de|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t. <HI>Calv.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ark 2.28.</NOTE> his Ma|je&s;tie gave expre&s;&s;e order unto <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> to have other Tables like to the former prepared, and he wrote thereon the &s;ame Law, the &s;econd time. As the Lord <HI>delighted in</HI> the fir&s;t in&s;titution of the Sabbath, &s;o he accounts him&s;elf honour|ed, by its &s;anctification: yea, he taketh this, as a title of glory, to be called, <HI>The Lord of the Sabbath:</HI> whereas this is his complaint and charge again&s;t them who are regardle&s;&s;e of his Sabbath: <HI>I am profaned among&s;t them,</HI> Ezek. <HI>22.26.</HI></P>
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<P>Secondly, Mans obligations to keep the Sabbath, would neither be judged few, nor weak,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek. 20.12. Ezek. 20.20. Ezek. 20.12. Heb 4.4, 5, 8, 9.</NOTE> if principles of &s;acred &s;elf-love might prevail: For the Sab|bath is givin, not as a task, but as a pri|viledge to Gods people to be a pledge of their intere&s;t in God, and a confirma|tion unto their hope of their further &s;anctification; as al&s;o of their ever|la&s;ting Sabbati&s;me, or re&s;t after their weari&s;ome wandrings in this World.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;a. 58.13. Sabbathum deliciarum:</NOTE> And for the &s;weetning of the Wilder|ne&s;&s;e-Way, unto the heavenly Canaan, the Lord hath provided a Sabbath for our &s;piritual fea&s;ting every Week, in which re&s;pect, he commandeth us to call it, and to ob&s;erve it, as <HI>a day of delight.</HI> The Text, opened and improved in this en&s;uing Treati&s;e, giveth in&s;tance, of an heavenly rapture,<NOTE PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 58.13. Sabb thum delicatum quia deli|cat&egrave;, et te ner&egrave; e&s;t ob|&s;ervandu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. <HI>Lapid.</HI> locum. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n</NOTE> with which Saint <HI>John</HI> in his exile, was refre&s;hed on the Lords Day; and the &s;ervants of Chri&s;t have, in all ages, had abundant experi|ence of &s;piritual Cordials given in, upon their con&s;ciencious keeping of this Sab|bath:
<PB REF="14"> therefore, the rather &s;hould we ob&s;erve it, with <HI>holy tenderne&s;&s;e,</HI> as <HI>Solomon</HI> coun&s;elleth every one, to keep Gods <HI>Law, as the Apple of his eye,</HI> Prov. <HI>7.2.</HI></P>
<P>Upon the fir&s;t con&s;ideration, we may condemn the profaners of the Sabbath, as guiltie of &s;acriledge;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exo. 20.10. Rev. 1.10.</NOTE> for, it being the <HI>Sabbath of the Lord, and the Lords Day,</HI> that time is &s;tollen from God him&s;elf, which is &s;pent otherwi&s;e then he alloweth. And how &s;ad this &s;acriledge and theft is, I find unfolded in the following Treati&s;e. Onely ob|&s;erve, this &s;in again&s;t God in Sabbath-abu&s;e is abominable, and inexcu&s;able, becau&s;e we are charged only with one day weekly, to be kept as holy unto the Lord. I remember,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 5.</NOTE> that <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> maketh men|tion of this, as an Act of Gods great indulgence towards man, and that ha|ving written the ten Commandments, <HI>he added no more:</HI> And &s;hould not we with obediential &s;ubmi&s;sion, acknow|ledge the &s;ame concerning the Sabbath?
<PB REF="14"> Upon the &s;econd con&s;ideration, men may without uncharitablene&s;&s;e, be cen&s;ured al&s;o as inexcu&s;ably regardle&s;&s;e of their own &s;oules good, both in regard of grace and comfort, here and hereafter, who di&s;re&s;pect the Sabbath day, which is the <HI>Market-day of the &s;oul,</HI> as worthy Mr. <HI>Rich. Rogers</HI> was wont to call it. And that &s;mart &s;entence (which was mi&s;applyed unto Chri&s;t, (for he &s;trictly kept the Sabbath of the Lord his God,) may be applyed to that per&s;on, who is a wilfull, ordinary profaner of that holy time:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Joh 9.16.</NOTE> <HI>This man is nor of God, becau&s;e he keepeth not the Sabbath day.</HI> Ac|cording to a mans regard, or di&s;regard of the Sabbath, is his re&s;pect, or di&s;re|&s;pect unto all the re&s;t of Gods Comman|dements.</P>
<P>Here I might take occa&s;ion to bewail bitterly <HI>Englands</HI> wofull declinings, both in matters of doctrine and pra|ctice, concerning the Sabbath. In for|mer times, no Reformed Church was &s;o famous, either for &s;oundne&s;&s;e in judg|ment,
<PB REF="15"> or exactne&s;&s;e in conver&s;ation, in relation to the Lords Day. But our Apo&s;ta&s;ie began to be Notorious, when the Book for the allowing of &s;ports, on that day, was promoted, to gratifie the profane and Popi&s;h party, then predo|minant in <HI>England.</HI> And hereupon many, both Bi&s;hops and others (for alas, how apt are men, even Mini&s;ters among others to &s;wim down the tide with them who bear rule?) appeared in the Pulpit, and in the Pre&s;&s;e, to decry the moralitie and exact ob&s;ervation of the fourth Commandment. Many worthy &s;er|vants of Chri&s;t looked upon <HI>Germanies</HI> Warres as a fruit of this high provo|cation there, and they have judged our late-yeares troubles an effect of the like profanation. At this day (notwith|&s;tanding our Covenanted Reformation) how wofully is Gods Sabbath neglected every where! and may we not &s;ay, that the loo&s;ene&s;&s;e of them, who are Athei&s;tically wicked, is not &s;o dange|rous to poor <HI>England,</HI> as the carnal li|berty
<PB REF="15"> of &s;uch, who pretend unto the highe&s;t pitch of &s;anctitie? How ma|ny even among&s;t them, under pretence of Go&s;pel immunities, and of ob&s;erving every day as a &s;piritual Sabbath, do both take, and plead for that libertie on the Lords Day, which old Puritans (among&s;t whom the power of godli|ne&s;&s;e &s;hined gloriou&s;ly) did decry and abominate. Many years &s;ince I heard this &s;peech (uttered with much affecti|on) from famous Mr. <HI>John Rogers, Take away the Sabbath, and Reli|gion will &s;oon wither.</HI> And is not this too much verified among&s;t our &s;elves in <HI>England</HI> at this day? We have had, and we have Acts, Ordi|nances, Orders, for the better keeping of the Lords Day; but who knoweth not, that the life of the Law, lyeth in the execution? Proclamations and Papers will not pluck down profane|ne&s;&s;e, except they be &s;trengthened by the vigorous actings of per&s;ons in power. The Lord threateningly com|plaineth
<PB REF="16"> of the Prie&s;ts in former times, becau&s;e <HI>they hid their eyes from the Sabbath.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek. 22.26.</NOTE> The meaning of the com|plaint is judged to be, either (more generally) their regardle&s;ne&s;&s;e thereof, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> (more particularly) their not taking notice when, and how, and by whom profaned, that they might by roproof &s;eek redre&s;&s;e. This I mention, that we Mini&s;ters may mind our Duties in this regard more. The Reverend Au|thour of this U&s;efull Treati&s;e hath ex|pre&s;&s;ed vigorous affections, with for|cible arguments to awaken, quicken, and encourage people unto the better keeping of the Chri&s;tian Sabbath. And what con&s;iderations can be more com|manding and conquering unto an in|genuous experienced Chri&s;tian, then tho&s;e two, hinted and handled from the Text, which this godly man under|taketh and pur&s;ueth to good purpo&s;e in this pre&s;ent Treati&s;e, <HI>viz. 1.</HI> Chri&s;t, (who&s;e Day, the Sabbath is in a way of &s;anctified peculiarity;) <HI>2.</HI> Spirituall
<PB REF="16"> joy, with which the Lord is wont to crown the &s;anctifiers of this his holy Day. The former u&s;efull Works of this my worthy good friend, have found &s;o good acceptance among&s;t Gods people, that I hope this piece (for its own &s;ake, rather then for my poor Te&s;timony) will al&s;o be welcomed and improved. I com|mend this &s;avoury Treati&s;e to thy &s;erious peru&s;al, and thy &s;elf therein, to the ble&s;sing of God Almighty. I am</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Thy friend and &s;ervant in, and for Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> Simeon A&s;he.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE><HI>Augu&s;t 7. 1654.</HI></DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="table of contents">
<PB REF="17">
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="part">
<PB REF="17">
<HEAD>THE Contents of the fir&s;t Part.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>1.</HI> HOw God from the Beginning before the Law, ordained a &s;et Day for Religious Duties, <HI>pag. 6</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>2.</HI> How God after under the Law did more unfold and confirm the &s;ame. <HI>pag. 7</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>3.</HI> Why Chri&s;t under the Go&s;pel &s;hould have a &s;et Day for his Service, <HI>p. 10</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>4.</HI> Wherein the work of Redemption &s;urpa&s;s'd the work of Creation. <HI>p. 11</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>5.</HI> Wherefore the fir&s;t Day of the week is called <HI>The Lords Day. p. 15</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>6.</HI> What warrant for the change of the Sabbath from tke la&s;t to the fir&s;t Day. <HI>p. 34</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>7.</HI> Their Objections an&s;wered who op|po&s;e the Doctrine of the Lords Day. <HI>p. 36, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM><HI>8.</HI> Of the Lords-Day-Duties what they are, and where to be perform'd. <HI>p. 58, 125</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>9.</HI> Their Objections an&s;wered who neg|lect the Duties of the Lords Day, <HI>p. 65, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>10.</HI> The Multitudes of &s;inners again&s;t the Lords Day di&s;covered. <HI>p. 20, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>11.</HI> The Magnitude of their &s;in opened in &s;everal re&s;pects. <HI>p. 83, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>12.</HI> The &s;ad Judgments to which Sab|bath-breakers are &s;ubject. <HI>p. 96, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>13.</HI> Gods Delay of executing Judgment upon many that mi&s;-&s;pend his Day, why. <HI>p. 110, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>14.</HI> What all are to do to help on due Sabbath-ob&s;ervance. <HI>p. 120, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>15.</HI> What e&s;pecially &s;ome are to do that the Sabbath-Day may be duly ob&s;er|ved. <HI>p. 132, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>16.</HI> The Nece&s;&s;ary U&s;e of the Sabbath. To whom, and for why. <HI>p. 138, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>17.</HI> The probable lo&s;&s;e of the Lords Day, when and wherefore. <HI>p. 148, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>18.</HI> How the Lords Day being remo|ved,
<PB REF="18"> may be long before its return. <HI>p. 160, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>19.</HI> How the Lords Day may remain among&s;t &s;ome as a &s;ore cur&s;e. <HI>p. 166. &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>20.</HI> How equal it is to ob&s;erve one Day in &s;even holy to God. <HI>p. 169, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>21.</HI> The excellency of the Lords Day, being well ob&s;erved. <HI>p. 179, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>22.</HI> The commodity of well keeping this our Chri&s;tian Sabbath. <HI>p. 196, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>23.</HI> The comforts of the Chri&s;tian Sab|bath well kept. <HI>p. 214</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>24.</HI> Their Objections an&s;wered, who cannot find the comfort and profit. <HI>p. 225, &amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>25.</HI> How the Lords Day in the wor&s;t times may be certainly and &s;weetly continued. <HI>p. 244.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
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<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="part">
<PB REF="19">
<HEAD>THE CONTENTS of the &s;econd Part.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>1.</HI> TO be in the Spirit on the Lords Day, as S. <HI>John</HI> was, what it is. <HI>p. 259</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>2.</HI> Why &s;ome of Gods Servants are on the Lords Day in the Spirit. <HI>p. 281</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>3.</HI> How any others of the &s;ervants of God may be in the Spirit on the Lords Day. <HI>p. 293</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>4.</HI> The properties of Gods Spirit to|wards good men. <HI>p. 294</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>5.</HI> The properties of good mens &s;pirits towards the Lord. <HI>p. 300</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>6.</HI> Un&s;anctified men cannot be on the Lords Day in the Spirit, why. <HI>p. 309</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>7.</HI> A fal&s;e &s;pirit moves mightily in them, how that is di&s;covered. <HI>p. 325</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM><HI>8.</HI> How far &s;ome &s;uch men may be mo|ved by the Spirit of God. <HI>p. 343</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>9.</HI> Objections by and about &s;ome in this regard an&s;wered. <HI>p. 357</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>10.</HI> Some of Gods Saints on the Lords Day are not in the Spirit, why. <HI>p. 354</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>11.</HI> Spiritually to &s;pend the Lords Day what it contains. <HI>p. 380</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>12.</HI> Motives that incite &s;piritually to &s;pend the Lords Day, of two &s;orts. <HI>p. 389</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>13.</HI> Duties requi&s;ite to a &s;piritual &s;pend|ing the Lords Day, of three &s;orts. <HI>p. 433</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>14.</HI> Preparation for the Lords Day, wherefore, and wherein it is. <HI>p. 437</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>15.</HI> How the Lords Day is to be begun, carried on, and ended. <HI>p. 452</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>16.</HI> What is required after the Lords Day is over. <HI>p. 468.</HI></ITEM>
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<DIV1 TYPE="to the reader">
<PB REF="20">
<HEAD>A &s;hort Epi&s;tle to the Reader, touching the Errata's.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Courteous Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THough thou art no fault-finder, yet thou maye&s;t find many faults in a few &s;heets, both through the Defects of the Authour, and through the Mi&s;takes of the Printer. The&s;e latter, are ei|ther le&s;&s;er, or greater. Very many words fal&s;e-&s;pelled,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">As centre, for center. &s;urvile, for &s;ervile. and &s;uch like.</NOTE> and mi&s;-print|ed, yet the &s;en&s;e of the place pre&s;er|ved. The&s;e and &s;uch errours being le&s;&s;e, I let pa&s;&s;e. But many words are printed &s;o much ami&s;&s;e, as de&s;troy the very &s;en&s;e of the place. And among &s;uch errours more gro&s;&s;e, Note the&s;e.</P>
<PB REF="20">
<DIV2 TYPE="errata">
<HEAD>In the main Text.</HEAD>
<P>Page 33. line 12. for &s;ports, read &s;pots. p. 34 l. 24. for u&s;e, r. cau&s;e. p. 37. l. 25. for breach, r. branch. p. 54. l. 3. for meal, r. wheale. p. 96. li. 15. for renounced, r. removed. p. 107. l 4. for note, r. find p. 108. l. 4 for frogs, r. fogs. p. 121 l 21. for conjunction, r. conviction. p. 135. l. 14. for Yea, r. So. p. 142. l. 27. for, in dayes pa&s;t, r. in dayes future. p 145. l 6. for but, r. yea, pa. 153. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 3. for cau&s;e, r. ca&s;e. pa. 217. line 10. for Goats, r. Groats. p. 250. l. 2. for pre. r. pre&s;erve. p. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">2. line 12. for whole man, r. whole of man. p. 353. l. 16. for, fixed, r. fired. p. 372 l. 18. for fixed, r. fired. p 389 l. 16. for &s;pirituality, read &s;piritual. pag. 412. l. 23. for provoke, r. promote. p. 419. l. 16. for condile, r. condole, &amp;c.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="errata">
<HEAD>Errata in the Mergent.</HEAD>
<P>Pag. 41. pro &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dendum. lege ludendum. pag. 24. pro ancle. leg. ante. pa. 253. pro &s;ancto, leg. &s;ancta. ibid. pro qui&s;c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ns, leg. quie&s;cens. ib<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d. pro Exem. leg. Erem. pag. 322. pro pe&s;&s;ima. lege pe&s;&s;imi. pag. 328. pro Augu&s;t, leg. Augu&s;t.</P>
<P>The&s;e, (Good Reader) and &s;ome other &s;uch Brui&s;es, the Body of this Book in the Birth hath &s;uffered, which yet thou maye&s;t much heal, by applying thereunto thy charitable
<PB REF="21"> Interpretations, which he humbly entreats, who heartily de&s;ires Gods honour herein, and thy Benefit here|by.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Philip Goodwin.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="part">
<PB N="1" REF="21">
<HEAD>THE LORDS DAY Enlivened.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Revel. 1.10.</HI></BIBL>
<P>I was in the Spirit, on the Lords Day.</P></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<P>_SAint <HI>John</HI> among the Apo|&s;tles, is compared to the Eagle among the birds: and truly let him be ob|&s;erved, but onely as the Text pre&s;ent reports, therein he is found to fly exceeding high, &s;oaring upward with heavenly wings, yea, he did as it were pa&s;s out of the world into the Spi|rit, to conver&s;e with God in &s;ublime
<PB N="2" REF="22"> my&s;teries upon the day of the Lord.</P>
<P><HI>I was in the Spirit upon the Lords Day.</HI></P>
<P>Indeed if we reflect upon the fore|going ver&s;e, we may view him in a very low place and ca&s;e.</P>
<P>I <HI>John</HI> who al&s;o am your Brother, (written to &s;ome afflicted Churches of Chri&s;t) and companion in tribulation, &amp;c. Other Hi&s;tories al&s;o tell into what trouble&s;ome times he was turned, how Souldiers having apprehended him in <HI>A&s;ia,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Non mul|tum ante temporis <HI>Apocalyp|&s;in</HI> vidit Joannes. Sed pene no&s;tro &s;eculo ad finem <HI>Do|mitiani</HI> Im|perii. <HI>Ire|naeus</HI> li. <HI>5.</HI> cont. <HI>Va|lent.</HI></NOTE> and hurried him to <HI>Rome,</HI> where being brought before <HI>Domitian</HI> (under whom was the &s;econd, if not the &s;ad|de&s;t of the ten per&s;ecutions) this cruell Emperour cau&s;ed him (for the cau&s;e of Chri&s;t) to be ca&s;t into a Cauldron of boyling oyl, out of which by a &s;trange providence being e&s;caped, he was after carried to pri&s;on in the I&s;le <HI>Patmos,</HI> which (as <HI>Geographers</HI> write) was a bar|ren beggarly place, a little de&s;ert I&s;land, lying in the <HI>Aegean Sea,</HI> where &s;ure this good man met with mi&s;ery &s;o much as might have &s;unk his Soul. But though he was (world-ward) in a woe ca&s;e all the week; yet he was in a high rap|ture, and Heavenly po&s;ture when the Lords day came.</P>
<PB N="3" REF="22">
<P><HI>I was in the Spirit upon the Lords Day.</HI></P>
<P>In the words of the Apo&s;tle are ob|&s;ervable:
<LIST>
<ITEM>Somewhat implyed: And,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Somewhat expre&s;&s;ed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or his Conce&s;&s;ion.</ITEM>
<ITEM>And his A&s;&s;ertion.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>That which he &s;ilently grants, and &s;e|cretly, yet certainly implyes, is, That there was then a Lords Day in u&s;e&punc; and which he him&s;elf in his &s;ufferings ob|&s;erved.</P>
<P>That which he po&s;itively expre&s;&s;es, and plainly affirms, is, That upon this Day of the Lord, he was in the Spi|rit, <HI>I was in the Spirit on the Lords Day.</HI></P>
<P>As there were two brazen Pillars whereupon the burden of <HI>Solomons</HI> Porch was placed, 1. <HI>Kin.</HI> 7. So the burthen of following di&s;cour&s;e &s;hall all be brought and layd (through the Lords help) upon two Principall Points.</P>
<P N="1">1. Point, That even in the times of the Go&s;pel there hath been, and is con|tinued a day, which is the Lord Chri&s;ts by a peculiar claim.</P>
<PB N="4" REF="23">
<P>THE LORDS DAY.</P>
<P N="2">2. Point, that &s;ome of the Servants of the Lord have been, and others may be, in the Spirit on this day of the Lord. The Apo&s;tle is plain from his own ex|perience: <HI>I was in the Spirit on the Lords Day.</HI></P>
<P>Upon the&s;e two bottomes I &s;hall en|deavour to rai&s;e the Religious ob&s;er|vance of the Chri&s;tian Sabbath, and to lift up the Lords Day unto its highe&s;t and holie&s;t u&s;e. And now enter the fir&s;t,</P>
<P>That the Lord Chri&s;t our dear Savi|our hath a day that is peculiarly (His).</P>
<P>THE LORDS DAY.</P>
<P>All daies indeed are the Lords. The Lord Chri&s;t in all daies hath an un|doubted intere&s;t, yea, and a double pow|er for their di&s;po&s;e.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Natural, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Oeconomicall.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>An originall power and property pertaines to him as he is God coe&s;&s;en|tiall and coeternall with his Fa|her.</P>
<P>A derivative property and power as he is Chri&s;t the Mediator. For as God
<PB N="5" REF="23"> the Father hath put all things, &s;o all times into his Son Chri&s;ts hands. We find, <HI>Gene&s;is</HI> 1. the whole &s;pace of time divided into
<LIST>
<ITEM>Dayes, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Nights.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Now there is not a night or day but is the Lords, <HI>P&s;alme</HI> 74.16. <HI>The day is thine, the night al&s;o is thine.</HI></P>
<P>Yet there is a day which is <HI>THE LORDS,</HI> by an excellency, and in a &s;uper-eminent and immediate manner. As we &s;ee, <HI>P&s;alme</HI> 50. the Lord &s;ayes, that all creatures are his; <HI>Every beast of the Forre&s;t is mine, the cattell upon a thou&s;and hills, and all the Fowles of the Mountaines are mine,</HI> Ver&s;e 10, 11. But yet tho&s;e Bullocks and &s;heep that were &s;et apart for Sacrifice, were more immediately the Lords.</P>
<P>And thus all time is the Lords, there is not a day in a thou&s;and years, nor an houre in ten thou&s;and dayes, but to the lea&s;t minute, all is the Lords.</P>
<P>Yet there is a day &s;o &s;et apart for ho|ly &s;ervice,</P>
<P>That 'tis <HI>THE LORDS DAY.</HI></P>
<P>I &s;hall reduce things to a threefold The&s;is or Po&s;ition.</P>
<P N="1"><PB N="6" REF="24">1. Po&s;. That God hath one day in &s;even &s;et apart for his &s;olemne &s;ervice, is &s;ure even from the beginning.</P>
<P N="2">2. Po&s;ition, That Chri&s;t al&s;o &s;hould have one day in &s;even &s;olemnely &s;et apart for his &s;ervice, is &s;ure.</P>
<P N="3">3. Po&s;ition, That this day, viz. the fir&s;t day in the week, which Chri&s;tians have commonly kept, is that day a&s;&s;u|redly.</P>
<P>THE LORDS DAY.</P>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="section">
<P>Fir&s;t, God from the beginning did ordain &s;uch a day for religious du|ties, a holy Sabbath. This we &s;hall con&s;ider,
<LIST>
<ITEM>As fir&s;t, &s;anctified.</ITEM>
<ITEM>And after, ratified.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The con&s;ecration of it to <HI>Adam</HI> in Paradi&s;e, And</P>
<P>The promulgation of it to <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> on the Mount.</P>
<P N="1">1. God did e&s;tabli&s;h a &s;eventh day for a &s;acred Sabbath, <HI>Gen.</HI> 2.2, 3. <HI>And God ble&s;&s;ed the &s;eventh day, and &s;anctified it,</HI> &amp;c. As God appointed <HI>Adam</HI> his work, to wit, on the week-dayes to dre&s;&s;e the ground: &s;o God provided him a Sabbath, a &s;eventh day of holy re&s;t. The ground indeed did not then as now
<PB N="7" REF="24"> need tillage, but the fir&s;t man mu&s;t be an Exemplar or pattern to Po&s;terity. Neither did <HI>Adam</HI> need re&s;t by rea&s;on of any bodily wearine&s;&s;e in Innocency pre&s;uppo&s;ed: but God would have him full and whole to &s;et him&s;elf one day in &s;even to &s;erve him, and in a holy com|munion then more immmediately to meet his Maker, which might be unto him a Paradi&s;e in Paradi&s;e. This Sab|bath for his &s;ouls &s;olace was as the &s;weete&s;t flower in all his Garden. This Seventh day God had b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;&s;ed, and man was bound to keep.</P>
<P>As there was a &s;peciall Tree whereof <HI>Adam</HI> might not eate;</P>
<P>So there was a &s;peciall time that <HI>Adam</HI> might not break.</P>
<P>Though he &s;hould live without &s;in:</P>
<P>Yet he mu&s;t not live without a Sab|bath.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="section">
<P>Secondly, God did publi&s;h his Sab|bath-plea&s;ure more plain to his People upon Mount <HI>Sinai,</HI> Exod. 20.8, 9. ver. <HI>Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Which words, as they concern a Set-&s;eventh-day-&s;abbath, &s;o they &s;eem to
<PB N="8" REF="25"> look towards it with a two-fold a&s;|pect,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both backward,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And forward.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Backward] As reflecting upon the Sabbath for meer entrance. Such a day already in&s;tituted, the Seventh day, God in mercy had made it holy, and man mu&s;t remember to keep it ho|ly.</P>
<P>Some (e&s;pecially Popi&s;h Writers) &s;ay, there was no Sabbath &s;et before the Lord had proclaimed his Law upon Mount <HI>Sinai:</HI> but all the mo&s;t Orthodox determine otherwi&s;e.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides that in <HI>Gene&s;is</HI> precited, we &s;ee, <HI>Exod.</HI> 16.23. To morrow (&s;ayes <HI>Mo&s;es</HI>) is the re&s;t of the holy Sabbath to the Lord. It appears 'twas a preap|pointed day.</P>
<P>Forward] As directing to the Sab|baths further continuance. A day that mu&s;t be remaining.</P>
<P>Some would make the fourth com|mandement to be a meer tran&s;ient ce|remonie, to live and die with the Jewi&s;h Church: But if they graunt that the other nine are morall and perpetuall, Then this.</P>
<Q><PB N="9" REF="25">
<L>For 'tis compri&s;ed among them.</L>
<L>Yea, 'tis advanced above them.</L></Q>
<P>This is &s;et in the middle of all, as the very heart of the whole, as if the Sab|bath on the &s;eventh day were the centre in which all the lines of Gods Law meet.</P>
<P>Yea, this is &s;et beyond them, as we may &s;ee if we ob&s;erve, with what a word 'tis inforced in the preface, and with what words 'tis inlarged in the progre&s;&s;e. Re|member, it &s;tands at the door to invite,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Calvin, Mu&s;cu|lus, Zan|chius, &amp;c.</NOTE> 'tis a word of great weight, as our late VVriters ob&s;erve. And in the precept, as we pa&s;&s;e the roomes, there we meet with many words to welcome. <HI>The Seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God, in it thou &s;halt not do any work, &amp;c.</HI> As &s;aint <HI>Paul</HI> &s;aid of him&s;elf, con&s;ider|ed with the other Apo&s;tles, 2. <HI>Cor.</HI> 11. <HI>Are they I&s;raelites? So am I. Are they the &s;eed of Abraham? So am I. Are they the Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t? I am more.</HI> In labours more abundant. In pri&s;ons more frequent: So may the Sabbath-precept &s;ay of it &s;elf in re&s;pect of the other commandements: Were they written with the finger of God in &s;tone? &s;o was I. Were they put into
<PB N="10" REF="26"> the Ark &s;afe to be pre&s;erved? So was I. In rea&s;ons more urgent. In circum&s;tan|ces more aboundant; more particulars pre&s;&s;ing practi&s;e, then in any of the other precepts. The whole Decalogue or holy Law of God was delivered in thunder, and the loude&s;t and longe&s;t clap &s;eemed to lie upon the fourth com|mandement. As if at this the Trumpet gave the large&s;t and &s;hrille&s;t &s;ound, to &s;et it forth and to &s;ettle it fa&s;t. So we &s;ee God had for his &s;ervice (a Sabbath) the &s;eventh day.</P>
<P>From the creation &s;etled: and &s;o to proceed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="section">
<P>Secondly, that our dear Saviour &s;hould have &s;uch a &s;et day of holy re&s;t and religious labour, as relating to him, &s;uits with Scripture, and agrees with grounds of rea&s;on. For</P>
<P>Chri&s;t he hath wrought, as God the Father did; and</P>
<P>Chri&s;t is to be honoured, as God the Father was.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, the &s;ame works have been done by Chri&s;t the Son, as were done by God the Father: <HI>John</HI> 5.19. <HI>Je&s;us an&s;wered. Verily, verily, I &s;ay unto you, The Son does nothing of him&s;elf, but what he &s;ees the Fa|ther
<PB N="11" REF="26"> do.</HI> For what&s;oever things he doth, the &s;ame doth the Son likewi&s;e. Did God the Father ble&s;&s;e and &s;anctifie a &s;eventh day for his &s;acred &s;ervice? and &s;hall not the Son do the &s;ame? Is there not a &s;et day which the Son hath &s;ancti|fied? As God the Father re&s;ted from his works, &s;o hath Chri&s;t the Son cea&s;|ed from his, <HI>Heb.</HI> 4.10. There|fore Chri&s;t is to have his Sabbath of re&s;t, as well as God the Father, in the fir&s;t age of the world. Yea, the work of Redemption done by the Son doth it not &s;urpa&s;&s;e the work of the whole Cre|ation? Being
<LIST>
<ITEM>In it &s;elf mo&s;t precious.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Upon Chri&s;t more pre&s;&s;ing, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Unto us more profitable.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="section">
<P>Fir&s;t, mo&s;t precious is this work in it &s;elf, viz. Chri&s;ts recovering &s;ouls above Gods creating the World. As mans gaining the world cannot recompence the lo&s;&s;e of his &s;oul: &s;o Gods making the world does not equalize Chri&s;ts re|deeming the &s;oul. To draw men out of an enthralled bondage, is more then to bring matters out of a confu&s;ed Chaos. In the former God was to deal with no enemy: but in the latter Chri&s;t was
<PB N="12" REF="27"> put to combate with all the Divells in hell, yea, and to overpower men oppo|&s;ing their own mercies.</P>
<P N="2">2. Mo&s;t pre&s;&s;ing was this work to Chri&s;t, it made his very &s;oul heavy un|to the death, <HI>Mat.</HI> 26.38. In this Chri&s;t did not onely fight with the Divell, but God herein fought with Chri&s;t, brui&s;ed him and put him to grief, <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 53.10. The worlds creation was done without difficulltie: But the redemption of &s;ouls was difficult and painfull. To effect the former, God did but &s;peak the word; VVhereas to fulfill the latter, the Lord Chri&s;t did &s;hed his deare&s;t blood.</P>
<P N="3">3. Mo&s;t profitable unto us men, is this mighty work of Chri&s;t. Indeed to have earth to tread on, air to breath in, meat to feed of, light to walk by, are benefits: but the &s;ubduing the &s;trength of the Divell, the removing the &s;ting of &s;in, with all the a&s;toni&s;hing and &s;ad &s;equels thereof:</P>
<P>The reconciliatian of Gods anger, and</P>
<P>The reparation of mans nature:</P>
<P>The&s;e and the like are benefits more abundantly benenficiall. 'Tis a mor
<PB N="13" REF="27"> admirable and andvantagious work for Chri&s;t to pull brands out of the fire, then for God to bring a world out of the water. After &s;uch works then may not Chri&s;t well require a day of religi|ous re&s;t? A Sabbath to be &s;anctified for his &s;ervice one day in &s;even?</P>
<P>Secondly, The &s;ame honour is due to the Son that was done to God the Father, <HI>John</HI> 5.23. All men &s;hould ho|nour the Son of God even as they ho|nour the Father. In the times of the Old Te&s;tament, all men did honour the Father with a day of holy wor&s;hip, and was a &s;pecial part of his honour: there|fore all men mu&s;t honour Chri&s;t the Son, in the times of the New Te&s;ta|ment, with a &s;et day for his &s;olemne &s;ervice.</P>
<P>To Chri&s;t, for his Honour is a&s;cri|bed</P>
<P>The &s;ervice of the day (and there|fore,</P>
<P>The day for the &s;ervice) is his due.</P>
<P>We find Chri&s;t honoured by attri|buting to him the Word, <HI>Colo&s;&s;.</HI> 3.16. The Sacraments, of Bapti&s;me, <HI>Act.</HI> 8.16. of the Supper, 1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.24. So pray|er,
<PB N="14" REF="28"> <HI>John</HI> 16.23. Yea, the whole Go&s;pel-Mini&s;tery; 1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 4.1. Sure then he ought for his honours-&s;ake to have a Sabbath-day for the exerci&s;e of all the&s;e. And are there not as great en|deavours in the&s;e la&s;t dayes to lay the honour of Chri&s;t in the du&s;t, as ever be|fore was to trample down the glory of God the Father? Yea, and far greater: For Chri&s;t and the things of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>As they are much above nature cre|ated.</P>
<P>So they are mo&s;t again&s;t nature cor|rupted.</P>
<P>Yea, and the corruption of nature was never &s;o active and oppo&s;ite again&s;t the dignities of Chri&s;t, as in the&s;e la&s;t daies, 1 <HI>John</HI> 2.18. <HI>Little Children, it is the la&s;t time, and as ye have heard that Antichri&s;ts &s;hall come, even now are there many Antichri&s;ts,</HI> whereby we know that t'is the la&s;t time, (or the la&s;t hour, as in the Greek). And the divell knowing his time is &s;hort) as he is the more malici|ous:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Quanto po|te&s;tas Dia|boli decre|&s;cit in tem|pore, tanto cre&s;cit in malignitate.</NOTE> &s;o he is the more expeditious, and indu&s;trious to da&s;h down all the digni|ties of Chri&s;t; and to hinder him the ho|nour of his day, which for his honour is his due.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="section">
<PB N="15" REF="28">
<P>Thirdly, that the fir&s;t day in the week is the day due to Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>THE LORDS DAY.</P>
<P>And this is fitly called the Lords day for a double cau&s;e.</P>
<P>Becau&s;e of what was done by the Lord on this day: and</P>
<P>Becau&s;e of what upon this day was done unto the Lord, Fir&s;t, Such things the Lord did upon this day as might well denominate it, The Lords Day; as, 1. His re&s;urrection from the dead upon this day, <HI>Luk.</HI> 24.1, 2. <HI>John</HI> 20.1. Ve|ry early in the morning did this Sun ri&s;e upon the fir&s;t day in the week.</P>
<P>And well might he &s;ettle this day mo&s;t ob&s;ervable for by his this day ri|&s;ing, he made him&s;elf
<LIST>
<ITEM>Mo&s;t honourable,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mo&s;t profitable,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mo&s;t comfortable.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Fir&s;t, Hereby honourable, manife&s;ting his marvellous Power, when after three daies dead, the Sepulchre &s;ealed, the &s;tone rolled, a &s;trong watch placed, yet he broke through all bars, beat down all oppo&s;ition, as a Triumphing Conquerour over death and devills. <HI>Lazarus, John</HI> 11. When he ro&s;e came
<PB N="16" REF="29"> up with his grave-clothes bound, but Chri&s;t ca&s;t off his grave-clothes, leaving them in the Sepulchre, <HI>Joh.</HI> 20. &s;ignify|ing he had victory over death, wereas <HI>Lazarus</HI> was &s;ubject to die again.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Plus erat de &s;epulchro &s;urgere quam de cruce de|&s;cendere, &amp; plus mortem re&s;urgendo de&s;truere quam vitam de&s;cendendo &s;ervare. Greg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> The <HI>Jewes</HI> cryed, Let him come down from the Cro&s;&s;e, and we will believe. T'was more (&s;ayes one) for Chri&s;t to a&s;cend from his &s;epulchre, then to de&s;cend from the Cro&s;&s;e; more to vanqui&s;h death by ri&s;ing, then to &s;ave his life by e&s;caping: O the honour of this!</P>
<P N="2">2. Hereby profitable; The death of Chri&s;t was at the &s;owing of the Corn, <HI>Joh.</HI> 12.24. The rai&s;ing of Chri&s;t is as the &s;pringing up of the Corn. The be|nefits of Chri&s;ts death are reaped in his re&s;urrection; the death of Chri&s;t was as the ca&s;ting of <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> into the pit, &s;el|ling him into <HI>Egypt,</HI> and putting him into Pri&s;on; the rai&s;ing of Chri&s;t is like the preferring of <HI>Jo&s;eph,</HI> by which he comes into a capacity to enrich all his Relations.</P>
<P N="3">3. Hereby comfortable; O the joy of a rai&s;ed Chri&s;t! The Chri&s;tians in the Primitive Church were wont when they &s;aw one another to have this joyful &s;alute; <HI>The Lord is ri&s;en:</HI> and
<PB N="17" REF="29"> the others ordinary an&s;wer was: True,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign">. Plus gaude|re propter re&s;urrectio|nem glorio|&s;am quam dolere prop|ter pa&s;&s;io|nem ignomi|nio&s;am. <HI>Bern.</HI></NOTE> The Lord is ri&s;en indeed. We &s;hould not &s;o much mourn (&s;aith a good Au|thor) at Chri&s;ts ignominious Pa&s;&s;ion, as we &s;hould rejoyce at his glorious re|&s;urrection. The day therefore of Chri&s;ts ri&s;ing, may well &s;et up this Chri|&s;tian Sabbath.</P>
<P N="2">2. Chri&s;ts appearing to his Di&s;ciples was upon this day; he &s;hewed him&s;elf five times upon the very day he ro&s;e: fir&s;t, to <HI>Mary Magdalen</HI> in the morning, <HI>Mark.</HI> 16.9. Secondly, to the women, <HI>Matth.</HI> 28.9, 10. Thirdly, to the two Di&s;ciples, <HI>Luk.</HI> 24.18. Fourthly, to <HI>Pe|ter, Luk.</HI> 24.33. Fifthly, to the Ele|ven, <HI>Mark,</HI> 16.14. Excepting <HI>Thomas, Joh.</HI> 20.24. When the Di&s;ciples were a&s;&s;embled Chri&s;t came in, and he &s;tood in the mid&s;t among them (as the tree of life in the mid&s;t of Paradi&s;e) and unto them we may ob&s;erve,
<LIST>
<ITEM>He &s;pake peace, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>He gave power.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>He &s;aid unto them, <HI>Peace be unto you;</HI> Peace,
<LIST>
<ITEM>From outward foes, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>From inward fears.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>And when fears were out, joyes were
<PB N="18" REF="30"> in, <HI>Joh.</HI> 20.20. Then the Di&s;ciples re|joyced when they &s;aw the Lord: ne|ver did their &s;pirits &s;o &s;pring within them. Never before did &s;uch a day of comfort dawn: And upon this day he gave them a threefold power;
<LIST>
<ITEM>To Preach the Go&s;pel,</ITEM>
<ITEM>To admini&s;ter the Sacraments, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>To exerci&s;e Church-Di&s;cipline.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>As is evident, <HI>Matth.</HI> 28.16, 17, 18, 19, 20. <HI>Mark</HI> 16.15, 16, 17. <HI>Joh.</HI> 20.21, 22, 23, &amp;c. Hereby</P>
<P>He did both &s;anctifie the day for &s;uch Ordinances,</P>
<P>And he did &s;ignifie &s;uch Ordinances were for the day.</P>
<P>And again, the very next fir&s;t day of the week after he aro&s;e from the dead he appeared to his Di&s;ciples, <HI>Thomas</HI> be|ing with them. Then he did for his &s;ake more familiarly and fully unfold him|&s;elf then before. This made (one &s;ay) He was more beholding to <HI>Thomas</HI> doubting, then to <HI>Peter</HI> believing; for upon the occa&s;ion of that Di&s;ciples doubts, our dear Lord upon this day drew forth mo&s;t infallible te&s;timonies of the truth of his re&s;urrection, and &s;o left not onely to his pre&s;ent Di&s;ciples,
<PB N="19" REF="30"> but to his &s;ucceeding &s;ervants a more firm foundation for their faith in him|&s;elf, and a more &s;trong Argument to inforce their following ob&s;ervance of the &s;ame day, <HI>Joh.</HI> 20.26, 27, 28, 29.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> de|tempore. Ser. <HI>25. Bel|larm.</HI> de cultu &s;ancto|rum. <HI>l. 3.</HI> cap. <HI>11. Tertul.</HI> li. de carne Chri&s;ti.</NOTE></P>
<P N="3">3. The Mi&s;&s;ion, or Chri&s;ts &s;ending down of the holy Gho&s;t was upon this day. It appears the Apo&s;tles met upon the day of Penteco&s;t, <HI>Act.</HI> 2.1. this was a day in&s;tituted in remembrance of the Law delivered to <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> in the Mount fifty dayes after their departure out of <HI>Egypt.</HI> An&s;werably whereunto the ho|ly Gho&s;t (and Gods love thereby, <HI>Rom.</HI> 5.5.) is &s;ent out, and &s;hed abroad, the fiftieth day after Chri&s;t our Pa&s;&s;e|over was Sacrificed for us, which by computation of the learned, both Or|thodox and Popi&s;h, was the fir&s;t day of the week. Chri&s;t being gone up, the holy Spirit he comes down; A ble&s;&s;ed bargain (&s;aith an ancient Writer) here|by was made betwixt heaven and earth, to triumphing Saints was given the pre&s;ence of Chri&s;ts body, and to Mili|tant Saints was &s;ent the comforts of Chri&s;ts Spirit. The Spirit of Chri&s;t the Comforter came down upon this day. That cannot but be a holy day
<PB N="20" REF="31"> wherein the holy Gho&s;t came down. There be 3. works of excellency applyed to the three Per&s;ons in Trinity: to wit,</P>
<P>The work of Creation to God the Father.</P>
<P>The work of Redemption to God the Son. And</P>
<P>The work of Sanctification to God the holy Gho&s;t.</P>
<P>Times and things, Per&s;ons and &s;ea&s;ons he &s;anctifies. The holy Spirit pa&s;&s;ing through this day, hath made it holy: This being the day of the Lord his thus doing, 'tis</P>
<P>THE LORDS DAY.</P>
<P N="2">2. To the Lord upon this day hath been done Sabbath-&s;ervice;
<LIST>
<ITEM>In the Primitive times, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>In po&s;teriour times.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The holy Apo&s;tles punctually &s;et apart this fir&s;t day of the week, for the wor&s;hip of God. And they were men eminently endowed with the Spirit of Chri&s;t. Yea, men intimately acquain|ted with the &s;ecrets of Chri&s;t, men im|mediately in&s;tructed by the per&s;on of Chri&s;t: Chri&s;t in his own per&s;on be|fore his death did di&s;cover things to them as to no other men, <HI>John</HI> 15.15.
<PB N="21" REF="31"> and after his re&s;urrection, they were the men whom he did commi&s;&s;ionate to erect a Go&s;pel-Church, and to order all things therein, and therefore he did continue with them for the &s;pace of for|ty dayes before he a&s;cended, that he might fully furni&s;h them for tho&s;e great appointments wherein he found them faithfull. And how &s;ucce&s;&s;eful they were, we &s;ee, <HI>Act.</HI> 2. when on this &s;ame day were gained three thou&s;and &s;ouls at one Sermon. O ble&s;&s;ed day, ble&s;&s;ed day!</P>
<P>And as for the Apo&s;tle <HI>Paul,</HI> I &s;hall pray you to ponder both,
<LIST>
<ITEM>His practice, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>His precept,</ITEM>
</LIST> binding the day.</P>
<P>His practice in the day is plainly ex|pre&s;&s;ed, <HI>Act.</HI> 20.7. <HI>And upon the fir&s;t day of the week, when the Di&s;ciples came to|gether,</HI> Paul <HI>preached unto them, and con|tinued his &s;peech till midnight, being to de|part on the morrow, &amp;c.</HI> His precept for the day is plainly implyed, 1 Cor. 16.1, 2. the Apo&s;tle there &s;peaking of Col|lections for Saints upon the fir&s;t day of the week, when they &s;hould meet about the works of Gods wor&s;hip, adds this, [<HI>As I have ordained in the Churches
<PB N="22" REF="32"> of</HI> Galatia,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pi&s;cator <HI>in Gene.</HI> 2.3. <HI>fol.</HI> 52, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></NOTE> <HI>even &s;o do ye.</HI>] In that,
<Q><L>He Ordains &s;uch duties for the day,</L>
<L>He Ordains the day for &s;uch duties.</L></Q></P>
<P>And above fourty years after this (as Chronologie &s;aith) Saint <HI>John</HI> tells us in the text of &s;uch a continued day: <HI>The Lords day.</HI> And as for other good Authors &s;ince the holy Apo&s;tles, they report concerning the Chri&s;tian Sab|bath upon the fir&s;t day of the week things of two &s;orts:
<LIST>
<ITEM>Some more remote, as being a Prepa|rance for it, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Some more immediate, a&s;&s;erting the ob&s;ervance of it.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Some things they recite as referring to this fir&s;t-dayes-Sabbath:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> de tempo. Ser. <HI>25.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> notes that this very day, was the fir&s;t day of the Worlds Creation, when Angels, Elements, and lights were made; and that of all the &s;ix dayes-works, the work of the fir&s;t day was greate&s;t; becau&s;e then the fir&s;t matter and Model, the principals and Platform of all was laid. <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> al&s;o ob&s;erves that this was the day of <HI>Noahs</HI> entring into the Ark,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> de civit. Dei. l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">b. <HI>16.</HI> cap. <HI>26.</HI></NOTE> of Infants receiving Cir|cumci&s;ion, of Mannas fir&s;t falling in the Wilderne&s;&s;e: <HI>Origen</HI> before him &s;aith&punc;
<PB N="23" REF="32"> that if the Manna were gathered &s;ix dayes together as the Scripture de|clares,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Origen.</HI> Homil. <HI>7.</HI> in Exod.</NOTE> and it cea&s;ed upon the &s;eventh day, which was the Sabbath, without doubt it began on the fir&s;t day which is the Lords day; and &s;o he concludes the Lords day to be more excellent then the <HI>Jewi&s;h</HI> Sabbath. This was the day (&s;ay others) of Chri&s;ts Nativity and Bapti&s;me; of the Stars appearing at <HI>Bethlehem</HI> to the Wi&s;e men, of Chri&s;ts feeding five thou&s;and per&s;ons, and o|ther particulars which are in this ca&s;e collected.</P>
<P>But I proceed to &s;uch as in&s;i&s;t upon matters more immediate, affirming this fir&s;t day of the week to be celebrated for the Sabbath of Chri&s;tians. In <HI>Eu&s;e|bius</HI> we read the witne&s;&s;e of <HI>Diony&s;ius</HI> the <HI>Corinthian,</HI> that they diligently kept holy this Lords day in tho&s;e times. <HI>Tertullian</HI> naming the Solemnities of Chri&s;tians, begins fir&s;t with the Lords day, which they (he &s;aith) mo&s;t care|fully kept, declaring their exerci&s;es ther|on. <HI>Ju&s;tin Martyr</HI> names the &s;ame day, and &s;hewes their works: <HI>Ignatius</HI> again&s;t &s;ome that being Chri&s;tians would retain the <HI>Jewi&s;h</HI> Sabbath, &s;aith
<PB N="24" REF="33"> in plain terms,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Plinius</HI> &s;ub <HI>Trajano</HI> &s;crip&s;it&s;olitos hoc &s;tato die convenire Chri&s;tianos ancle lucem, carmen&abque; Chri&s;to qua|&s;i <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eo com|muni voce dicere; po&s;tea Sacramento &s;e ob&s;tringe|re non in &s;ce|lus aliquod, ne furia, ne latrocinia, ne adulteria committe|rent, &amp;c. <HI>Magdeb.</HI> cent. <HI>2.</HI> cap. <HI>6.</HI></NOTE> We celebrate no longer the Sabbath of the <HI>Jewes,</HI> but every one that loves Chri&s;t keepeth now holy the Lords day. An Hi&s;torian writes of the Chri&s;tians cu&s;tome in the Emperour <HI>Trajans</HI> time, how they met upon this &s;ame &s;et day early in the morning, &s;ung a P&s;alm, received the Sacrament, and bound them&s;elves in Covenant to fly &s;in, &amp;c. And t'was a common que&s;ti|on put to Chri&s;tians when they were brought before Pagan Governours: [Do&s;t thou ob&s;erve the Lords day? and the ordinary an&s;wer then was, I am a Chri&s;tian, and I dare not intermit it.] I &s;hall &s;hut up my di&s;cour&s;e about this &s;etling the Chri&s;tian Sabbath, onely by con&s;idering,
<Q><L>Something that Chri&s;t him&s;elf &s;aid, concerning that; and</L>
<L>Something concerning that Chri&s;t &s;aid of him&s;elf.</L></Q></P>
<P>That which our Saviour &s;aith of the Sabbath, we find, <HI>Matth.</HI> 24.20. <HI>Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, nor on the Sabbath-day:</HI> We may ob&s;erve, the Sabbath our Saviour means, it was for &s;uch as were converted to the faith of Chri&s;t; and 'twas for to remain long
<PB N="25" REF="33"> after the death of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="1">1. The Per&s;ons that the Sabbath was for, appears to be the praying Saints of God, though <HI>Jewes</HI> by Nation, Chri|&s;tians by profe&s;&s;ion; and therefore the day they ought to ob&s;erve was &s;uitable.</P>
<P N="2">2. The &s;ea&s;on of this Sabbath-day was during that Sabbath which &s;hould be at the time of the &s;acking, and &s;ad de&s;olating the City <HI>Jeru&s;alem.</HI> About fourty years after Chri&s;ts death that dreadful and terrible time came, when according to the voyce heard in the Temple, Let us depart hence] Gods people departed thence to <HI>Pella</HI> and o|ther places; and for the Unconverted <HI>Jewes,</HI> (as <HI>Eu&s;ebius</HI> reports) whereas they had &s;old Chri&s;t for thirty pence, thirty of them were &s;old for a peny, and &s;o many hundreds of them who cruci|fied Chri&s;t, were crucified them&s;elves in one day, that there were not places enough for Cro&s;&s;es, not Cro&s;&s;es for bodies. Then, then were Gods faith|ful ones fain to fly for their lives; yet then were they to be &s;erious, and ince&s;|&s;ant in Sabbath-day-duties, then all Ce|remonies were aboli&s;hed.</P>
<P>And that &s;pecial day which the <HI>Jew</HI>
<PB N="26" REF="34"> had ob&s;erved being Ceremonial, was be|fore abrogated; and a &s;eventh day as a holy Sabbath upon an another ac|count then kept, and &s;o to continue.</P>
<P N="2">2. That which our Saviour &s;aith of him&s;elf as concerning the Sabbath, we &s;ee, <HI>Mark</HI> 2.28. <HI>The Son of man is Lord al&s;o of the Sabbath-day.</HI> Which notes in Chri&s;t touching this day two things;
<LIST>
<ITEM>His Authority for it, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>His Propriety in it.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The Sabbath is &s;uch a day, that the Lord Chri&s;t
<Q><L>For it gives a &s;pecial command, and</L>
<L>In it keeps a &s;pecial Intere&s;t.</L></Q></P>
<P>Other time the Lord allots, and allows men for their ordinary affairs, but this day he re&s;erves as his proper and pecu|liar Portion. Truly may we &s;ay of the Sabbath, as 'tis &s;aid of <HI>Jacob, P&s;al.</HI> 135.4. <HI>The Lord hath cho&s;en it unto him&s;elf for his peculiar trea&s;ure.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Vox &s;egulah &s;ignificat rem quan|dam auctam &amp; charam, &s;ive the &s;au|rus fuerit &s;ive res aliae quae cunqu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> (His Segullah.) Time the Lord gives out, but this he keeps as his &s;tore, and as that which to him is mo&s;t dear.</P>
<P>THE LORDS DAY.</P>
<P>Chri&s;t he is clearly the Lord of all, but e&s;pecially</P>
<PB N="27" REF="34">
<P>THE LORD OF THE SABBATH.</P>
<P>The Sabbath at fir&s;t con&s;idered with other dayes,
<Q><L>As Chri&s;t hath &s;eparated it from them;</L>
<L>So Chri&s;t hath elevated it above them.</L></Q></P>
<P>Above all dayes he doth e&s;timate this, 'tis emiminently his: And he the Lord of this day.</P>
<P>It being from him, in re&s;pect of its Ri&s;e,</P>
<P>And it being for him, in re&s;pect of its U&s;e.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Chri&s;t was the rai&s;er of it, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chri&s;t is the ruler in it.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>This is that high day, he hath &s;et up|on &s;table grounds.</P>
<P>This is that great day, he doth guide unto noble ends.</P>
<P>The grounds on which this day is erected, are,</P>
<P>The Lords abundant care of: And,</P>
<P>His abiding Covenant with his Church and people throughout all ages. Such is the care the Lord hath for the &s;pirituall profit of his People, and to perpetuate the Practice of Reli|gion, as thereupon he appoints this pre|&s;ent day. Yea, and that it might abide: he hath bound it by covenant to con|tinue through all generations,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Vid. <HI>Wil|lets</HI> Hexapla in locum.</NOTE> <HI>Exodus</HI>
<PB N="28" REF="35"> 13.16, 17. The ends to which this day is directed: are,
<LIST>
<ITEM>The honour of God, And,</ITEM>
<ITEM>The happine&s;&s;e of man.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Hence is that, <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 58.13. <HI>If thou call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord honourable, and &s;halt honour him.</HI> And hence is that, <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 56.2. <HI>Happy</HI> [or ble&s;&s;ed] <HI>is the man that doth this, &amp; the &s;on of man that layeth hold on it, that keep|eth the Sabbath from polluting it</HI> To &s;ay now no more: this is that &s;weet day upon which Saint <HI>John</HI> had &s;uch Soul-ravi&s;hing-Revelations in the Spirit.</P>
<P><HI>I was in the Spirit upon the Lords Day.</HI></P>
<P>The U&s;e two-fold.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of Information.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of Exhortation.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Fir&s;t, we are here informed of mens fearful evills relating to the Lords Day, viz. Both</P>
<P>The &s;infull evill they are guilty of, &amp;</P>
<P>The Penall evill they are &s;ubject to.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, to &s;et out the &s;infulne&s;&s;e of men again&s;t the Sabbath, I &s;hall con&s;ider, and clearly di&s;cover
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Multitude of the &s;inners, And</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Magnitude of the &s;in.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<PB N="29" REF="35">
<P>Sinners again&s;t the Holy Sabbath are of &s;everall &s;orts:</P>
<P>Some &s;inning again&s;t the doctrine of the day: And,</P>
<P>Some &s;inning again&s;t the duties of the day.</P>
<P N="1">1. Some that in point of judgment lye cro&s;&s;e to the Lords Day.</P>
<P>Of &s;uch
<Q><L>There be &s;ome gro&s;&s;e in their opini|on,</L>
<L>And others in their opinion more loo&s;e.</L></Q></P>
<P>The former deny the day Po&s;itively, and in whole.</P>
<P>The latter deny the day re&s;pectively, and in part.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e that do not at all believe the Lords Day, are of two &s;orts:
<LIST>
<ITEM>Some that more Sordidly declare it, &amp;</ITEM>
<ITEM>Some that more &s;ubtilly conceale it.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. There be &s;ome that publiquely pro|claime their denyall of this Holy Day; and of them we may ob&s;erve two &s;orts;
<LIST>
<ITEM>Some that did never better appear in time pa&s;t: And,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Some that in time pa&s;t did much bet|ter appear.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Some that have been &s;o Sotti&s;hly and
<PB N="30" REF="36"> abominably bred up, that a conviction of the Lords Day, they never let in; Sabbath-Principles they never laid up. And &s;ome who&s;e education and profe&s;|&s;ion hath formerly declared their be|lief of the Lords Day: but now run in ranting and riotous waies, publi&s;hing their opinions again&s;t all Sabbath-ob|&s;ervance: yea, are come to &s;corn, and mock at the Sabbaths of the Lord, like tho&s;e, <HI>Lam.</HI> 1.7. Of &s;uch what &s;hall I &s;ay? But declare them utterly unclean: becau&s;e the Lepro&s;ie is in their heads I allude to that, <HI>Levit.</HI> 13.44. ver&s;e.</P>
<P>Secondly, there be others that carrie Some Sabbath-day-&s;hew, they ab&s;tain from their ordinary works, and meet where &s;ome matters of Religion are managed: but not from any tye upon con&s;cience, or obedience to any divine Authority. The Papi&s;ts upon an Eccle|&s;ia&s;ticall, and others upon a Politicall account, and becau&s;e of the civill pow|er; otherwi&s;e in their own opinions, they are &s;et Sabbath-free. They do not embrace the Sabbath, that's cro&s;&s;e to their inward principles: yet they doe not di&s;claim the Sabbath, that may prove their outward Prejudice. This
<PB N="31" REF="36"> is plain hypocri&s;ie in the Lords Day, and woe to &s;uch hypocrites in the Day of the Lord.</P>
<P>I proceed next to con&s;ider them that a&s;&s;ent &s;omewhat to a Sabbath-day: but their a&s;&s;ent thereunto is not right and through. Of &s;uch there be two &s;orts.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Some which deny that this is the Day: And,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Some who deny that of the Day which is.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Some grant the Lord hath a Day for his &s;ervice, but they plead again&s;t the fir&s;t, and for the la&s;t day in the week (the particular day which the Jewes kept) to be &s;till the &s;tanding Sabbath-day. In this is a &s;ubtile de&s;ign of Satan, when he &s;ees, as Sabbath-men will have, he &s;eeks to &s;et it where it may be &s;ure to fall; and though about this &s;cruples may be in &s;ome con&s;ciencious: yet the principall Patrons for the Jewi&s;h Sabbbath do it out of a &s;ecret de&s;ign to lay wa&s;te the Lords Day.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Conatus eo|rum tan|quam Pe&s;ti|lenti&s;&s;imus e&s;t retunden|dus. <HI>Mu&s;c.</HI> Loc: Com. Part. <HI>1.</HI> fol. <HI>148.</HI></NOTE> This made <HI>Mu&s;culus</HI> to conclude their cunning endeavours were perillous and pe&s;tilent, and by all meanes po&s;&s;ible to be &s;uppre&s;&s;ed. Such men lift up <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> to throw down
<PB N="32" REF="37"> Chri&s;t: advance God the Father to aba&s;e Chri&s;t the Son, and to deface his glory due.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Zanchius</HI> de oper. re|dempt. li. <HI>1.</HI> ca. <HI>19:</HI> fol: <HI>612.</HI></NOTE>And though they &s;eem to be for God and his Law: yet 'tis an unlawful and ungodly thing (&s;ayes <HI>Zanchius</HI>) as to have no certain day for Gods publick &s;ervice: &s;o to undermine and to over|turn that day which is certainly &s;et|led for the Lords Day.</P>
<P>Secondly, &s;ome grant this to be the very Lords Day: but they do not be|lieve 'tis a day &s;o preci&s;ely to be cele|brated. As there are few &s;o far Athei&s;ts as ab&s;olutely to deny there is a God: (A God many grant there is, that yet deny the true God, and many acknowledge the true God: that yet cannot be con|vinced he is &s;uch a God, &s;o ju&s;t, holy, pure, and perfect.) Thus there are few &s;o far oppo&s;ite to Sabbath as wholly to deny there is any day. A day they yield there is; but then they do not confe&s;&s;e the right day, or they do not confe&s;&s;e the day aright, a day to be kept, &s;o ho|ly and &s;trict, this they with&s;tand, whence they are very loo&s;e and take large liber|ties upon the Lords Day. And of the&s;e there are two &s;orts.</P>
<PB N="33" REF="37">
<P>Some &s;o minded for want of better In&s;tructions. And &s;ome &s;o minded from the force of ba&s;e Corrupti|ons.</P>
<P N="1">1. Some have &s;trange latitudes in their judgements of the Lords Day: and indeed the very Doctrine of &s;ome Churches, and Canons of Synods &s;et the door wide, allowing liberty for worldly labour, recreations and &s;ports upon the Sabbath-day. But the&s;e are black &s;ports that blemi&s;h their beauty in the &s;ight of God.</P>
<P N="2">2. Some who live where they might learn better, the light of the Lords Day in the Doctrine of it, breaking out more bright, and &s;hining forth clear and pure: yet they cannot &s;ee the ho|line&s;&s;e of the Day, through the filthi|ne&s;&s;e of their fle&s;h, and their dear in|dulgings of their delightful lu&s;ts. Nei|ther are they willing to &s;ee the Sabbaths Sanctity, le&s;t it &s;hould di&s;turb their &s;inful &s;ecurity. If for the Lords Day they &s;hould be &s;trict in their opinions, they could not with con&s;cience-quiet be loo&s;e in their practice: the&s;e per&s;ons, in this point of corrupt principles, and
<PB N="34" REF="38"> erroneous judgements, object divers things, as,</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="section">
<P N="1">1. <HI>Objection,</HI> The Sabbath is mutable and moveable from one day to another, and therefore may be removed quite and made utterly to cea&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer,</HI> The Sabbath 'twas mutable, being altered from the la&s;t to the fir&s;t day of the week: but 'tis not po&s;&s;ible there &s;hould be &s;uch another change, in that there can never po&s;&s;ibly be &s;uch another cau&s;e. To that change we may con&s;ider a double cau&s;e concur|ring
<LIST>
<ITEM>The material cau&s;e for it, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The actuall cau&s;e of it.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The cau&s;e upon which the day was altered.</P>
<P>viz. Chri&s;ts Re&s;urrection.</P>
<P>The cau&s;e through which the day was altered,</P>
<P>viz. Chri&s;ts In&s;titution.</P>
<P>So that the cau&s;e on which, and the cau&s;e by which this was done, all was Chri&s;t. In this change of the Sabbath we may ob&s;erve a double u&s;e:
<LIST>
<ITEM>Originall, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Organicall.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<PB N="35" REF="38">
<P>The primary,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Id &s;ine du|bio tenen|dum, quod Eccle&s;ia ab Apo&s;tolis Apo&s;toli &agrave; Chri&s;to, Chri&s;tus &agrave; Deo &s;u&s;ce|pit, &amp;c. <HI>Tertul.</HI> No&s;trae po|te&s;tatis non e&s;t &s;anctifi|care. Deus e&s;t qui &s;anctificat, &amp;c. <HI>Mu&s;cul.</HI> Loc. Com. Praecept. <HI>4.</HI></NOTE> principall efficient cau&s;e of that change, was Chri&s;t: The holy Apo&s;tles were the Secundary and In|&s;trumentall cau&s;e; for to &s;uch purpo|&s;es all their power, was from Chri&s;t, who did extraordinarily call, qualifie, and commi&s;&s;ionate them upon &s;uch ac|counts as never can come the like. The Lord him&s;elf &s;et up his own Sabbath: and indeed, 'tis onely for him to give a being to a Sabbath that can give a ble&s;|&s;ing to a Sabbath: this is the work of the Lord alone, to ble&s;&s;e and &s;anctifie a day.</P>
<P>Therefore not any per&s;on may a&s;&s;ume power, nor by any power may per&s;ons pre&s;ume to alter and &s;ettle any other Sabbath. Men mu&s;t not alter the ordi|nance for the day, as they may not al|ter the ordinances in the day, to bring in other Sacraments, another Go&s;pell. <HI>Gal.</HI> 1.8. <HI>If an Angel from heaven &s;hould preach another Go&s;pel to you then that you have received, let him be accur|&s;ed;</HI> and &s;o he that &s;hall cry up among&s;t you any other Sabbath then what ye have ob&s;erved, let him be accur|&s;ed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="section">
<P N="2"><PB N="36" REF="39">2. <HI>Object.</HI> 'Tis contrary to Chri&s;tian liberty to be limited to a day wherein to wor&s;hip God.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer,</HI> Chri&s;tian liberty learned out, is taken
<LIST>
<ITEM>Either more &s;trictly,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or more largely.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Strictly,] Chri&s;tian liberty is a relea&s;e from Mo&s;aical Ceremonies and Judai|cal circum&s;tances; but this doth not free from a fixed day for the Lords &s;er|vice, which is not a ceremonie, a circum&s;tance, but the very Soul and &s;ub|&s;tance of Chri&s;tian religion.</P>
<P>Largely,] Chri&s;tian liberty or Go&s;pel-freedome it does compri&s;e the&s;e two things;
<LIST>
<ITEM>Freedom from the &s;ervice of &s;in, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Freedom in the &s;ervice of God.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Fir&s;t, to be free from &s;ins &s;ervitude, this implies freedom from death and di|vel, the cur&s;e of the Law, and the wrath of God, the &s;equels of &s;ins &s;lavery; Sins &s;ervice is the &s;ore&s;t bondage. <HI>Au|&s;tins</HI> Po&s;ition is proper:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> de civit. Dei li. <HI>3.</HI> cap. <HI>4.</HI></NOTE> A good man though he &s;erves, yet he is free; a wick|ed man though he reigns, he is a &s;er|vant. <HI>Rome,</HI> &s;aith he, is the great Mi|&s;tre&s;&s;e of the World, yet the drudge of
<PB N="37" REF="39"> &s;in:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Chry&s;o&s;. Hom. 19.</HI> in priorem Epi. ad Co|rinth.</NOTE> and hence <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tome</HI> concludes <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> was the freeman, and his Mi|&s;te&s;&s;e who obeyed her lu&s;ts, was the &s;ervant. 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2.19. <HI>While they promi&s;e them&s;elves liberty, they them&s;elves are the &s;ervants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the &s;ame he is brought into bondage.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, to be free in the &s;ervice of the Lord is &s;weet liberty: this is the ca&s;e of Chri&s;tians; whatever they do to|wards God as their duty, 'tis under a freetenure, <HI>viz.</HI> the Covenant of Grace. Tis through a freee mover, <HI>viz.</HI> the Spirit of Chri&s;t, yea, and their own &s;pirits &s;et free by Chri&s;t: The precepts of the Lord are a good mans large walks, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 119.45. <HI>I &s;hall walk at liberty, for I &s;eek thy precepts.</HI> BED|DACHAH, at large: that is the onely free life, that's &s;pent in &s;eeking, &s;erving, obeying, and ble&s;&s;ing God. So then into Chri&s;tian liberty let's look never &s;o farre, we &s;hall not find that a di&s;charge from the Lords day is any breach there|of.</P>
<P>And therefore a &s;trict ob&s;ervance of this Lords day is no breach thereof.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Objection,</HI> Under the Go&s;pel there
<PB N="38" REF="40"> is no difference of dayes to be ob&s;er|ved.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer,</HI> For &s;atisfaction herein, we &s;hall con&s;ider fir&s;t, That there is a dif|ference between dayes, which it is &s;inful for to ob&s;erve. And</P>
<P>Secondly, That yet there is a differ|ence of the Sabbath from other dayes, which not to ob&s;erve is &s;inful. Sinful it is to ob&s;erve &s;uch a difference of days as is Heatheni&s;h, Jewi&s;h, Popi&s;h; the Apo&s;tle plainly prohibits this, <HI>Rom.</HI> 14.6. <HI>Gal.</HI> 4.10. <HI>Colo&s;.</HI> 2.16. Yet by the&s;e places the Apo&s;tle doth not forbid a di&s;tinct ob&s;ervance of the Chri&s;tian Sabbath, for then &s;hould he contradict him&s;elf, as <HI>Zanchius</HI> well ob&s;erves; and others before him clear tho&s;e Scrip|tures, from any relation to the Lords day. Let him ble&s;&s;e the Lord, &s;ayes <HI>Lu|ther,</HI> that knowes how to di&s;tingui&s;h be|tween the Law and the Go&s;pel. Like|wi&s;e let him thank God who hath learned to di&s;tingui&s;h between &s;everal Sabbaths under the Law, and this Lords day under the Go&s;pel; they being aboli&s;hed weare not bound to ob&s;erve them, or to make any differ|ence between tho&s;e dayes, and others
<PB N="39" REF="40"> of equal concernment. But for the Chri&s;tian Sabbath, it abides; and a dif|ference of that day from others we ought to ob&s;erve.</P>
<P>This is that day &s;et apart, By the holie&s;t Per&s;on; and, For the holie&s;t purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>P&s;al. 4.3. <HI>Know ye that the Lord hath &s;et apart the man that is godly for him&s;elf.</HI> So know ye that the Lord hath &s;et apart the day that is holy for him&s;elf. Here not to di&s;tingui&s;h, is to aboli&s;h.</P>
<P>As God will have his Servants to be &s;eparated from other men: So he will have his Sabbath to be differenced from other dayes. As men mu&s;t not divide what God hath joyned: &s;o men mu&s;t not mingle what God hath &s;eparated, or deba&s;e what God hath elevated.</P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>Object.</HI> Every day ought to be a Sabbath.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> True, the whole term of our life &s;hould be a continued Sabbath, in two re&s;pects, Viz.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Ce&s;&s;ation from the &s;ervice of &s;in, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Di&s;po&s;ition to the &s;ervice of God.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. To &s;erve &s;in we &s;hould be ever aver&s;e; and O how glad would God's Saints be to keep &s;uch a perpetual Sab|bath,
<PB N="40" REF="41"> as alwayes to re&s;t from &s;in! and O how &s;ad have &s;ome of Gods Saints been, becau&s;e &s;uch a Sabbath comes &s;o &s;eldome! How does the Apo&s;tle com|plain, <HI>Rom.</HI> 7. <HI>That though with his mind he &s;erved the Law of God, yet with his fle&s;h he &s;erved the Law of &s;in?</HI> Thus <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> condoles his own condition, Alas, &s;in fol|lows I fly, and yet I fall; I fight, and yet I am captive: I run from it, and yet I am drawn to it; I would re&s;t, but I can|not be quiet one day, one hour, &amp;c. To have &s;uch an uninterrupted re&s;t, as to be every day at a di&s;tance from &s;in, is a very de&s;irable Sabbath.</P>
<P N="2">2. To &s;erve God we &s;hould be ever prepared. Though we are not alwayes in Sabbath-day-time, yet our hearts &s;hould be alwayes in a Sabbath-day-frame, in &s;uch a ble&s;&s;ed bent as is fit for all holy bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. Some expound that precept of the Apo&s;tle <HI>Paul, Pray con|tinually,]</HI> Have a continual frame of heart &s;it for holy prayer. And that of St. <HI>James, Be &s;wift to heare,]</HI> Have alway an open ear, ready to hearken to the holy Word of God. We find, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 1. Angels de&s;cribed under the form of Bea&s;ts;] <HI>Having four faces and four
<PB N="41" REF="41"> wings,</HI> ver&s;. 6. <HI>Faces]</HI> Ready to mind, <HI>Wings]</HI> Ready to move into any part of the World, about any portion of work God plea&s;es to appoint them: Thus Gods people &s;hould be in a pre|pared po&s;ture at all &s;ea&s;ons for Sab|bath-&s;ervice.</P>
<P>Yet if we re&s;pect the performance of the &s;olemn works of Gods wor&s;hip, or the forbearance of the lawful works of mens callings; we are not required to keep an every day Sabbath, <HI>Exod.</HI> 20.9. <HI>Six dayes &s;halt thou labour, and do all thy work,</HI> ver&s;. 10. <HI>But the &s;eventh day is the Sabbath of tht Lord thy God, in it thou &s;halt not do any work.</HI> God could in the Creation (as <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> ob&s;erves) have made an immediate di&s;patch of all with a word, but he took &s;ix dayes about the works of the World, that he might allot men &s;ix dayes time for worldly works. Yea, before the Law this was laid upon man: <HI>In the &s;weat of thy brows thou &s;halt eat thy Bread.</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Cumlegatur <HI>Adam</HI> in Paradi&s;o po|&s;itus, ut operaretur, quis &s;anum &s;apiens fi|lios ejus in hoc mundo po&s;itos ad &s;udendum arbitraretur <HI>Bern.</HI> Serm.</NOTE> And after the Law, under the Go&s;pel. <HI>We command,</HI> &s;aith the Apo&s;tle, <HI>men to work with quietne&s;&s;e, and to eat their own bread.</HI> So that if men &s;hould not be in their worldy bu&s;ine&s;&s;e upon the week-dayes,
<PB N="42" REF="42"> they would &s;in in a defect, falling &s;hort of what is commanded. And if they &s;hould be every day in the &s;et &s;ervice of a Sabbath, they would &s;in in an ex|ce&s;&s;e, going beyond what is required, which would be but will-wor&s;hip, un|warranted by the Word, and unplea|&s;ing to God. But with men this is but a meer pretence, to evade and avoyd all Sabbath-ob&s;ervance. As Polythei&s;me is the way to Athei&s;me, an omni-Reli|gion to no-Religion; &s;o a pretended every-day-Sabbath, and then really no Sabbath at all.</P>
<P>Next we come to con&s;ider &s;uch as &s;in again&s;t the Lords day in point of pra|ctice. Such are of two &s;orts.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Some doing upon this day what they &s;hould not; and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Some upon this day not doing what they &s;hould.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>The works that men &s;hould not do on the Sabbath day are double.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Servile, and Sinnefull or</ITEM>
<ITEM>Worldly, and Wicked works.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>And accordingly tho&s;e that do upon the Lords day, what they be bound to forbear, are of two &s;orts;
<PB N="43" REF="42"> Tho&s;e that then be about,<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;t triplex &s;ervitus, un|de opus dici|tur &s;ervile, &amp;c. <HI>Thom. Aqui. 22.</HI> qu. <HI>122.</HI> art <HI>4.</HI></NOTE> either
<LIST>
<ITEM>The evil works of &s;in, or</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;ervile works of the world.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>In evil actings there are tho&s;e that &s;in out the Sabbath day, pa&s;&s;ing away this precious time;
<LIST>
<ITEM>Some in &s;inful plea&s;ures, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Some in the plea&s;ures of &s;in.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Plea&s;ures that are in them&s;elves law|ful, yet are &s;infull upon the Lords Day. 'Twere better (Sayes <HI>Au&s;tin</HI>) for a man to dig and plow,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Augu&s;t. <HI>in tit.</HI> P&s;al. 91.</NOTE> then to dance and play upon the Sabbath day: that to the Common-wealth may be a benefit: but of this there is no advantage: yet this is one of Satans &s;tratagems, to make men mindle&s;&s;e of Sabbath duties, he plea&s;es them with &s;inful delights.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ju&s;tin. <HI>lib.</HI> 1.</NOTE> As <HI>Cyrus</HI> dealt with the <HI>Lydians</HI> when he had conquered them in battel, he allow|ed them liberty for all &s;ports and pa&s;times, and &s;o more fully &s;ubdued them, that they became his &s;ervants for ever: Thus Satan in policy puts men upon &s;inful plea&s;ures even upon Sab|bath daies, that for ever he may make them his a&s;&s;ured and &s;etled Servants. How contrary is this to what God in the Prophet expre&s;&s;es, <HI>I&s;ay.</HI> 8.13. <HI>Thou
<PB N="44" REF="43"> &s;halt not find thine own plea&s;ure upon my holy day.</HI></P>
<P>But there are &s;ome who do exceed the&s;e, pa&s;&s;ing Sabbath-daies in the down right plea&s;ures of &s;in: in la&s;civiou&s;ne&s;s, wantonne&s;s, &s;urfeiting &amp; drunkenne&s;&s;e, and &s;uch like &s;infull actions, that 'tis rather the Divells day, then the Lords Day.</P>
<P><HI>Plutarch</HI> thought that the Sabbath of the <HI>Jews</HI> was from <HI>[Sabbos]</HI> a name of <HI>Bacchus,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="foreign">, Jovialiter vivere.</NOTE> that &s;ignifies to live riotou&s;ly, jocundly, merrily, and the like. And indeed the Sabbath of Chri&s;tians, as &s;ome keep it, may &s;eeme to have &s;uch a derivation, for they make it the day of their mad merriments, when they are mo&s;t Jovial, vain and voluptuous. And were it not for Gods wonderful Pati|ence, while they are thus polluting the holy &s;ea&s;ons of God, it &s;hould be to them as to <HI>Bel&s;hazzar,</HI> when he was abu|&s;ing the holy ve&s;&s;els of God: <HI>In the &s;ame hour came forth fingers of a mans hand, and wrote upon the plai&s;ter of the wall; MENE, MENE, TE|KEL,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Then the Kings countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, &s;o that the joynts of his loyns were
<PB N="45" REF="43"> loo&s;ed, and his knees &s;mote one again&s;t another, Danniel</HI> 5.3, 4, 5, 6.</P>
<P>To be &s;inful upon the Sabbath-day,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Hieron. <HI>in</HI> I&s;aiam. <HI>cap.</HI> 5. Au|gu&s;t. <HI>Tract.</HI> 4. <HI>in</HI> Joan.</NOTE>
<LIST>
<ITEM>'Tis an aggravation of &s;in; And,</ITEM>
<ITEM>'Tis an a&s;&s;imilation of Satan.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Thus a man greatens his &s;in, by &s;in|ning upon the Sabbath; a man not on|ly offends again&s;t the fourth Comman|dement, but other Commandements by &s;uch &s;ins are al&s;o violated, which makes the offence more deep and double. As to be good in evill dayes, is that which heightens a mans prai&s;e, and declares the eminency of his grace; &s;o to be evill on good dayes, &s;infull upon the &s;acred Sabbaths of the Lord, is that which makes a mans ca&s;e more cul|pable, and his &s;in the more abomina|ble.</P>
<P>Thus a man likens him&s;elf to Satan, who is ever bad, but wor&s;t upon the be&s;t dayes. The wickede&s;t act that ever the Divell did, was when he met man in the holy place of Paradi&s;e: and O what &s;infull de&s;igns hath Satan upon the &s;ons of men, when he meets them upon the holy time of Sabbaths! Of all &s;ins &s;uch Satan is mo&s;t prone to pro|mote, that will mo&s;t provoke God, and
<PB N="46" REF="44"> &s;uch are the &s;ins of the Sabbath. 1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 6.15. <HI>Shall I</HI> (&s;ayes the Apo&s;tle) <HI>take the members of Chri&s;t, and make them the members of an Harlot? God forbid;</HI> &s;o &s;hould a man &s;ay, Shall I take the dayes of Chri&s;t, and make them the dayes of &s;in and vanity, of gluttony and drunken|ne&s;&s;e? God forbid. Unto God &s;in is ever offen&s;ive, but to &s;in upon the Sab|bath does mo&s;t incen&s;e God. <HI>Ezra</HI> 9.13. <HI>Seeing, O Lord, thou ha&s;t given us &s;uch a deliverance as this, &s;hould we break thy commandements, and joyn affinity with the people of the&s;e abominations, woulde&s;t not thou be angry till thou had&s;t con&s;umed us, and &s;o as there &s;hould be no e&s;cape?</HI> Thus ought men to argue, O Lord, &s;ee|ing thou ha&s;t given us &s;uch <HI>A DAY</HI> as this, &s;hould we tran&s;gre&s;&s;e thy com|mands, and practi&s;e abominations there|upon, would'&s;t not thou be very angry, &amp;c.?</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Chry&s;o&s;t: <HI>de</HI> Lazar. <HI>con. c.</HI> 1.</NOTE><HI>Chry&s;o&s;tome</HI> well ob&s;erves: that the Sabbath is the Day God appoints to purge and clean&s;e men from &s;in; and therefore on that day for men to mix them&s;elves in &s;in, is exceeding &s;in|ful.</P>
<P>Secondly, in earthly actings there are
<PB N="47" REF="44"> tho&s;e that &s;pend out the Sabbath-Day, ravelling and running out this rich and precious time of the Lords Day.</P>
<P>Some upon their worldly bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, &amp;</P>
<P>Others about their bu&s;ine&s;&s;e in the world.</P>
<P>In Sabbath-time are &s;ome &s;et upon their ordinary affaires. As Sea-water it will not abide in its own banks, but beats and eates upon the Land, and drownes the dry ground; &s;o many mens worldly callings will not keep within their weeks compa&s;&s;e, but eate upon the Lords Day, and drown up Sabbath-time. God in the creation went on through all the works of the World, till he had made man, and then he took his Seventh Dayes re&s;t, and &s;anctified it; how &s;ad is it to &s;ee man &s;tay in worldly works, and never care to come at God in a Sanctified-Seventh-Days-re&s;t.</P>
<P>True, there are &s;ome who though they will not be in the open Sabbath upon their ordinary week-day-work, yet they will be about &s;uch things as have ten|dency thereunto. We find in the 14. of <HI>Luke,</HI> of &s;ome that when they were &s;ent to at Super-time, they made their excu&s;e: <HI>One &s;aid, I have bought a piece of
<PB N="48" REF="45"> ground, and I mu&s;t needs go and &s;ee: and another &s;aid, I have bought five yoke of Oxen, and I go to prove them.</HI> The one &s;ort did not at that very time purcha&s;e their Farme, but went then to &s;ee it; nor the other did not then buy their Oxen, but went then to prove them. Thus &s;ome in Sabbath-time though they are not upon the common work of their Trades, yet then they go to &s;ee, and are bu&s;ie about the di&s;po&s;ing of their week-day-works. As God in the Creation wrought out the works of the World in &s;ix &s;everal dayes, but the very fir&s;t day he fitted and ordered the matter for the whole frame. Thus men upon the fir&s;t day of the week, OUR LORDS DAY, are bu&s;ie about the ordering of matters for their earthly affairs in the following dayes. All this proceeds from Satan that evil one, and from co|vetou&s;ne&s;&s;e the root of all evil.</P>
<P N="1">1. The Divel upon the Lords day, when he cannot draw to that which is wicked, he will to what is worldly; Thereby
<LIST>
<ITEM>To augment the &s;in of man, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>To prevent the &s;ervice of God.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. Hereby Satan encrea&s;es the &s;in of
<PB N="49" REF="45"> man, he well knowes tho&s;e works which are upon the week dayes lawful, are up|on the Sabbath &s;inful, and &s;o &s;ets men thereupon.</P>
<P N="2">2. Hereby Satan oppo&s;es and &s;uppre&s;|&s;es the Service of God: God upon this account requires (as <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> excellently notes) men upon the Sabbath to for|bear their worldly bu&s;ine&s;&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> de civit. Dei lib. <HI>6.</HI> cap. <HI>11.</HI> Idem de tempore Serm. <HI>25<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI></NOTE> that they may then be the more free and full, prompt and ready for religious &s;ervice; and fot this cau&s;e th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Divel puts people then upon their earthly bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, that he may beat them off from Gods ble&s;|&s;ed &s;ervice upon his holy Sabbath day. The Divel does not like diligence in a lawfull calling, but upon &s;inful de&s;igns he un&s;ea&s;onably &s;ets men thereupon. I could report of a poor woman, oft under &s;trong temptations, whom I have heard &s;ometimes &s;adly &s;ay, &s;he was not able all the week to go about the nece&s;|&s;ary works of her calling, but when the Lords day was, &s;he knew not how to keep from her worldly work, being vio|lently provoked thereunto. True, the more common ca&s;e is for Satan upon the Sabbath to hold men on in their earthly affairs, who are eagerly bent
<PB N="50" REF="46"> thereabout all the week be&s;ides. As the &s;ubtile Serpent &s;aid to <HI>Eve, Gen.</HI> 3. <HI>Yea, hath God &s;aid, ye mu&s;t not eat of every tree?</HI> &s;o Satan &s;ubtilly &s;ayes to men; Hath God &s;aid, Ye &s;hall not work upon every day? ye may work, 'twill be for your benefit.</P>
<P>Yea, &s;hould Satan be &s;ilent, to &s;urvile work on the Sabbath.</P>
<P N="2">2. A principle of covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e puts men hereupon: What made <HI>Eve</HI> to eat of the tree th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> was forbidden of God? And what cau&s;ed <HI>Achan</HI> to take the wedge of gold that was otherwi&s;e di&s;po&s;ed and &s;et apart of God, but co|vetou&s;ne&s;&s;e? And whence is it, that men upon the Sabbath day which God hath &s;eparated for him&s;elf, are &s;o car|ried about their own common bu&s;ine&s;s, but from covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e? Covetou&s;ne&s;s, <HI>Colo&s;.</HI> 1.5. is called Idolatry; This Idol the world, it takes up that time of &s;er|vice which does belong to God.</P>
<P>The Sun mu&s;t bear the &s;wey of the Day, though the Moon rules the Night; and though the World&punc; hath the pre|dominancy all the week, yet 'tis meet Chri&s;t &s;hould have the command of his own day,</P>
<PB N="51" REF="46">
<P>THE LORDS DAY.</P>
<P>I proceed to a &s;econd &s;ort that &s;inne again&s;t this Lords day, by not doing on the day what they ought.</P>
<P>Concerning Sabbath-day-duties, we &s;hall con&s;ider,
<LIST>
<ITEM>The kind they are to be of, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The place they are to be in.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>For the kind,] the duties on the Lords day to be done, are
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of Piety towards God, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of Charity towards men.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>For the place,] the duties to be done on the Lords day,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Are in our publike meetings,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or in our private dwellings.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Now per&s;ons who do not their Sab|bath duties, and &s;o &s;in again&s;t this day, are of two &s;orts. Some that Idle out the day, and do nothing of the duty, and others that trifle in the day, and of the duty do but &s;omething.</P>
<P N="1">1. Too many are manife&s;t, that &s;pend this holy day in Idlene&s;&s;e. By the Law the Prie&s;ts upon the Sabbath day, were to offer double &s;acrifice; whence <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tome</HI> collects,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chry&s;o&s;t. <HI>concion. de</HI> Lazaro.</NOTE> that the Sabbath ought not to be a day of ea&s;e and Idle|ne&s;&s;e, but of double diligence in holy
<PB N="52" REF="47"> exerci&s;es. In the Go&s;pel even the Lord of this day is revealed, not as in an idle, but an active po&s;ture; <HI>During the dayes of his fle&s;h he went about doing good,</HI> Act. 10.38. And the Sabbath was the day of his be&s;t and mo&s;t abundant works, as is well ob&s;erved; and there|fore this Lords day calls for diligence in the be&s;t duties, and does not indulge Idlene&s;&s;e. The <HI>Jewes</HI> u&s;e to call the &s;eventh year the Idle year, becau&s;e then the ground lay follow, no Plowing, or &s;owing, or bringing forth of Corn. Many Chri&s;tians may call the &s;eventh day, the Idle day, for then is no praying, hearing, &amp;c. or bringing forth any fruit that is good, the whole day to the man, and the whole man in the day lyes like the de&s;ert, dry and barren, where no &s;eed is &s;owen; through Idlene&s;&s;e on the Lords day men they become,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Mo&s;t culpable in their &s;in, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mo&s;t lyable unto Satan.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1, To be Sabbath-idle increa&s;es a mans &s;in: Idlene&s;&s;e is ever evil, but never &s;o bad, as upon this good day: No time is allowed for Idlene&s;&s;e. As <HI>of every idle word:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Matth.</HI> 12.36.</NOTE> &s;o of every idle hour, <HI>a man mu&s;t give account at the day of judge|ment;</HI>
<PB N="53" REF="47"> and as one upon the place fur|ther infers:<NOTE PLACE="marg">S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> pro etio&s;o verbo redde|mus ratio|nem, videa|mus ne red|damus pro otio&s;o &s;ilen|t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o. <HI>Am|bro&s;.</HI> de o&s;|&s;ic. lib. <HI>1.</HI> cap. <HI>3.</HI> ut nullo die intermit|tantur certa tempora o|randi. <HI>Aug.</HI> Haere&s;. <HI>57.</HI></NOTE> We &s;hall not onely give account for our idle &s;aying<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, but we mu&s;t give account for our idle &s;ilence, for our not &s;peaking, when men do not take unto them&s;elves words in prayer, and the like: but he like the Prophets Idols, <HI>having mouthes, and &s;peak not; ears, and hear not, &amp;c.</HI> Some religious exer|ci&s;es are every day duties: <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> up|on that place of the Apo&s;tle, <HI>Pray con|tinually.]</HI> Expounds it, See that in no day there be any intermi&s;&s;ion of certain times for prayer. But then from prayer and other holy duties to be idle, vacant, and voyd on the Lords day, deepens the &s;in, becau&s;e on &s;uch dayes,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Men have be&s;t work,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And mo&s;t work to do.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. The Sabbath is a day of the be&s;t work. Mo&s;t of the week-work is world-work, poor in compari&s;on of this. That's like digging in a dark pit, this as reap|ing in a plea&s;ant field. As 'tis be&s;t being with God: &s;o 'tis be&s;t working for God. Weekly labour is but bodily labour, burden&s;ome labour; Sabbath-work is chiefly &s;oul-work, and all &s;weet work. Men work on the week, that they and
<PB N="54" REF="48"> theirs may live well in this world a while: But the Lords Day-work is our meal for ever. Therefore for any to be idle on this day aggravates their &s;in of Idlene&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Secondly, the Sabbath is a day of the mo&s;t work: men on that day &s;hould do more in the &s;ervice of God then all the week be&s;ides. The <HI>Jews</HI> did much on their Sabbath; Chri&s;tians are to do more on their Lords Day. If we com|pare <HI>Numb.</HI> 28.9. with <HI>Ezek.</HI> 46.4. we &s;hall find that the offerings in the time of the Go&s;pel prophe&s;ied of, were more then tho&s;e in the time of the Law. In <HI>Num.</HI> we find but two Lambs: but in <HI>Ezekiel</HI> we find &s;ix Lambs and a Ram for the Sabbath. This &s;ignifies that in the &s;ettled times of the Go&s;pell, Gods Wor&s;hip upon the Chri&s;tian Sabbath &s;hould be &s;olemnized more fully then in former times under the Law. Now for men to be idle when they have mo&s;t work to do, cau&s;es idlene&s;&s;e to become the more culpable, and the greater &s;in.</P>
<P>Secondly, to be Sabbath-idle, expo&s;es &s;ouls to Satans &s;ervice: hence &s;o many do the divells drudgery, and draw the
<PB N="55" REF="48"> divells cart upon the Lords day. When Satan, e&s;pecially in Sabbath time, &s;ees men idle and not about any thing that is good, then he &s;oone &s;ets them about that which is naught: &s;o that upon this day men are mo&s;t eager to go on the divels arrand, though to their own ruin. Yea, men upon the Lords Day, that lye idle, they tempt the Tempter, and do invite the Divell to their dwellings, and as it were ask if he hath no work, or what &s;ervice he will command them. They are ready, each &s;aying, Here am I, &s;end me. As in &s;upper-time Satan en|tred into <HI>Judas:</HI> &s;o in Sabbath-time Satan takes po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of &s;uch idle ones. Some keep the Sabbath like their cattel, they go not to plow in deed, but no|thing good they go about. They are in their hou&s;es as their hor&s;es in ther &s;tables: yea, perhaps in their beds as their hogs in their &s;tyes. Or on the Lords Day, if they be not as bea&s;ts, they are as birds that flye from place to place: &s;o do they wander from town to-town, idly pa&s;&s;ing away of Sabbath-time. Yea, 'tis with many in this, as with the Divells, they believe a Sabbath, but they ob&s;erve no Sabbath: as they
<PB N="56" REF="49"> can keep no Sabbath in point of re&s;t: &s;o they will keep no Sabbath in point of work. Men are on earth as the damned in hell, who never are in any religious duties: they may be crying for water to coole theie tongues: but never pray|ing for grace to change their hearts, or for mercy to remit their &s;ins. For thou&s;ands of idle Sabbaths hath God with &s;ome to reckon: and let them be fure, that as God will not hold them guiltle&s;&s;e that take his Name in vain; &s;o God will never hold them guiltle&s;&s;e that &s;pend his time in vain.</P>
<P>Secondly, I come to con&s;ider &s;uch as indeed do &s;omewthat of duty in the day of the Sabbath: but of the&s;e there are that take up their Sabbath-work,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Either in &s;ome one part of the day:</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or in &s;ome one place for the day.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The part of the Lords day wherein the exerci&s;es of religion ought to lye, be|ing both
<LIST>
<ITEM>The former, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The latter.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Some men they take the one, but then leave the other, and will not let the Lord have his time entire. They &s;ay of
<PB N="57" REF="49"> the Lords day, as &s;he in the <HI>Kings</HI> of the living child; <HI>Divide it, Divide it.</HI> Yea, they make the time of the Sabbath like the Vaile of the Temple at Chri&s;ts death, to be rent in twain, viz. between the Lord and the World, or which is wor&s;e, between the Lord and their lu&s;ts; whereas not a bone of Chri&s;ts body was to be broke, &s;o not an hour in his day: As not a member of that, &s;o not a minute of this. As our Saviour &s;aid concerning the loaves, and the fi&s;hes; <HI>Gather up the fragments, let nothing be lo&s;t:</HI> &s;o he &s;eems to &s;ay concerning his holy Sabbath, Gather up the parcells thereof, let not minutes be lo&s;t, which are precious like the lea&s;t parings of gold. It hath been perillous to clip a Kings Coyn, tis more dangerous to clip the Lords day. O the dreadful death and doome of <HI>Ananias, who kept back part of the price, and brought onely a cer|tain part, and laid at the Apo&s;tles feet,</HI> whereas <HI>before 'twas all in his own pow|er, Act.</HI> 5.3, 4. But this holy time was never ours, nor ever was any part there|of in our power, therefore to keep back any hour of this holy day is wor|thy of death. If no part be the Lords,
<PB N="58" REF="50"> why do you give him any? if the whole be the Lords, why do you put him off with part?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="section">
<P N="2">2. The places wherein religious exer|ci&s;es are to lye upon the Lords day, be|ing
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both publike,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And private.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Some re&s;t in the publike and neglect the private: And others are all for the private, and contemn the publike.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, There are &s;ome, all who&s;e reli|gion upon the Lords day lyes at Church, no praying, reading of Scriptures, re|peating of Sermons, in&s;tructing their charge, or any &s;uch duty done in their hou&s;es all the day long. 'Tis &s;aid, <HI>Exod.</HI> 12. that <HI>there was a great cry at mid|night in all the dwellings of</HI> Egypt, <HI>for there was not a hou&s;e where there was not one dead:</HI> but not &s;o much as upon the Lords day from the dwellings of divers does any holy cry go up to heaven. ('Tis doubtfull in divers hou&s;es there are not any alive by grace, to bewaile them that lye there dead in &s;in,) while yet 'tis ea&s;ie to hear, and evident to &s;ee what rudene&s;&s;e they &s;uffer in their children and &s;ervants on the Sabbath day. <HI>Ha&s;t
<PB N="59" REF="50"> thou kept the commandement of the Lord</HI> (&s;aid <HI>Samuel</HI> to <HI>Saul) in de|&s;troying all</HI> Amelek? <HI>What then means the bleating of the Sheep, and lowing of the Oxen which I hear to day?</HI> So may we &s;ay to many a man: ha&s;t thou kept the commandement of the Lord, in ob|&s;erving his Sabbath? What mean<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> then the laughing and &s;porting and fooli&s;h talking of children and &s;ervants, which is then heard in their hou&s;es? Such parents, and ungoverning gover|nours &s;ure the Lord will one day charge with the breach of his ble&s;&s;ed Sabbath. See what God &s;ayes to <HI>Eli,</HI> 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 2.29. <HI>Wherefore kicke&s;t thou at my &s;acrifice, and honoure&s;t thy &s;ons above me, &amp;c?</HI> did <HI>Eli</HI> kick at the &s;acrifice of God? no, but his &s;ons did, and he re|&s;treined them not; and therefore Gad accounts it upon him.</P>
<P>Will not God thus &s;ay to &s;ome Fa|thers and Ma&s;ters, Wherefore prophane ye my Sabbath? and why have ye pol|luted my holy day? for they &s;o do in their children and &s;ervants, whom herein they do not re&s;train. They are careful to provide for family nece&s;&s;ities, but carele&s;&s;e to perform family-duties,
<PB N="60" REF="51"> though it be the Lords day, when they &s;hould look to all within their gates, <HI>Exod.</HI> 20.10.</P>
<P N="2">2. There are others, what they do in Gods &s;ervice on the Sabdath, 'tis pri|vate. for in the publike A&s;&s;emblies they are &s;eldome or never &s;een. For the <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> to &s;it &s;till in their hou&s;es when a thick darkne&s;&s;e was abroad in all parts of the land, was excu&s;able. [I pray God there be not a near approach of &s;uch a time upon <HI>England,</HI> when through wor&s;e then an <HI>Egyptian</HI> dark|ne&s;&s;e, people be con&s;treined to &s;tay at home in their hou&s;es.] But to lye at home on the Lords day, while through the open light of the Go&s;pel the land is like <HI>Go&s;hen,</HI> is an inexcu&s;able evil. And &s;ure,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chry&s;o&s;t. <HI>in Act.</HI> 3. Hom. 9. <HI>&amp;</HI> Hom. 2. <HI>in</HI> 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 1.</NOTE> 'tis no good pre&s;age, when people de&s;pi&s;e publike Ordinances, even on the Lords day: does not to &s;uch the Lord &s;ay, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 2.29. <HI>Wherefore do ye kick at my &s;acrifice, and at mine offering which I have commanded in my habitation?</HI> Read but tho&s;e Go&s;pel-Prophe&s;ies and Promi&s;es, <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 2.2, 3. <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 56.7. <HI>Mich.</HI> 4.1. which import the gatherings of Gods people for his publike wor&s;hip.</P>
<P>There are tho&s;e who withdraw
<PB N="61" REF="51"> them&s;elves from &s;uch duties, and while they think to prejudice others, they do them&s;elves the greate&s;t wrong. 'Tis clear they do not onely fall from holy ordinances, but they fall into ugly er|rours, and filthy evills many of them come to act.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Chry&s;o&s;to.</HI> Serm. cont. Anomeos.</NOTE> <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tome</HI> concludes that there is nothing more cau&s;es &s;ta|blene&s;&s;e in the truth, and keeps up ho|line&s;&s;e of life, and corrects oppo&s;ite vanities and vices, then a con&s;tant fre|quenting of the publick a&s;&s;emblies, and a careful and chearfull there hearing the holy Word of God. And hence <HI>Augu&s;tin</HI> &s;o earne&s;tly exhorts and per|&s;wades in &s;ome of his Sermons,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Aug.</HI> de tempore. Ser. <HI>251.</HI></NOTE> not to &s;eparate, but to congregate upon the Lords Day, and to the Go&s;pel publickly preached to apply them&s;elves.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ju&s;t. Mart; <HI>Apol.</HI> 2.</NOTE> <HI>Ju&s;tin Martyr</HI> reports of the Chri&s;tians in the primitive times, how they would call one another out of their hou&s;es, to meet together in the mo&s;t &s;olemne manner they might upon the Lords Day And if we come out of the Oce|an of the Ancients, and go into the &s;treames of our late<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Calv. <HI>in Deut.</HI> 5. <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Pet. Mart. <HI>in</HI> 1. <HI>Sam.</HI> 1.3. Bucer, <HI>in Math.</HI> 12.11. Zanch. <HI>in</HI> 4. <HI>Precep:</HI> Bullinger. Gualterus <HI>in Act.</HI></NOTE> Writers, as they all urge the ob&s;ervance of the Lords Day: &s;o they pre&s;&s;e the practice of publike
<PB N="62" REF="52"> duties in open a&s;&s;emblies, as mo&s;t ne|ce&s;&s;ary unto the right, and religious ob|&s;ervation thereof. Give me leave (I hope I dote not on any holine&s;&s;e of places, but prize the publike gatherings of Gods people, e&s;pecially upon the Lords Day) to tell you that &s;uch &s;er|vants the Lord hath had in preceding times, that would pitch upon places of publike wor&s;hip, not onely therein to &s;erve the Lord; but to &s;uffer for the Lord therein: thither they would run to die, where they u&s;e to pray: and rather then they would be driven from them, they would be de&s;troyed in them, thinking it good going together from thence to heaven. <HI>Eu&s;ebius</HI> reports that under the cruell per&s;ecution of <HI>Diocle&s;ian</HI> many thou&s;and Chri&s;tians were burned in the Temple of <HI>Nicomedia,</HI> being a&s;&s;embled to celebrate the Day of Chri&s;t. And another mentions how at <HI>Ments</HI> in <HI>Ger|many,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Hieron. <HI>Epi&s;tol. ad</HI> Geront.</NOTE> the Citie being taken, in the Church were many thou&s;ands murther|ed. But O how exceeding &s;ad is this when people may come to the publike in peace, pray in peace, hear in peace, de|part in peace from Sabbath after Sab|bath, yet loiter at home on the Lords
<PB N="63" REF="52"> Day! I wi&s;h empty &s;eats make not way for empty pulpits: and that quite forgetting Sabbaths, be not the event of &s;lighting Sermons.</P>
<P>(To &s;ay nothing of &s;uch as de&s;ert our a&s;&s;emblies, upon the groundle&s;&s;e grounds of Separation,) what Athe|i&s;me begins to grow in the Land? whole Pari&s;hes live as without God in the world, &s;carce knowing when a Sabbath comes: <HI>Help Lord.</HI></P>
<P>Now among&s;t &s;uch as &s;in again&s;t the Lords Day in re&s;pect of works thereup|on to be done,</P>
<P>Divers things are objected:</P>
<P>Some again&s;t the condition of the work in the day: And</P>
<P>Some again&s;t the continuance of the day in the work.</P>
<P>The condition of this dayes work con&s;idered, &s;ome object, Becau&s;e any thing of the day is required in publick. Others, Becau&s;e &s;o many things in the day are required.</P>
<P>Some &s;ay, They can read good books, and &s;erve God at home, when the Sab|bath comes.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer,</HI> 1. They can, but 'tis a que|&s;tion whether they will or no. Such as
<PB N="64" REF="53"> in their hou&s;es all the whole week do little or nothing in the wor&s;hip of God, are like to do no great matter at home when the Sabbath comes in the &s;ervice of God. As one well ob&s;erves, that commonly, they who forget God in the time of their life, do forget both God and them&s;elves in the day of their death: So they who neglect God in the week-time, do ordinarily little re|gard God or the good of their &s;ouls upon the Sabbath-day.</P>
<P>Secondly, The publike preaching of the Word is of more Soul-concernment on the Sabbath then any private read|ing at home, if we con&s;ider,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Either the precept of God;</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or the Profit of man.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Both expre&s;&s;e in that of the Apo&s;tle, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2.2. <HI>As new-born babes de&s;ire the &s;incere milk of the Word, that ye may grow thereby.</HI> Sincere milk of the Word, <GAP DESC="foreign">, Sermon-milk, warm milk from the Mothers bre&s;t is be&s;t to battle the babe. Sodden milk hath not &s;o much &s;pirits therein, nor the child that refre&s;hing thereby.</P>
<P><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Revera fratres nu|bes &s;unt praedicatores &amp;c. <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> in P&s;al. <HI>35.</HI></NOTE>Sermon-milk is the be&s;t food for &s;piritual growth. <HI>Agu&s;tin</HI> compares the
<PB N="65" REF="53"> preaching of the Word to the raining of the clouds, which more refre&s;hes the corn then if pond-water &s;hould be poured out in pailes and buckets: <HI>My doctrine &s;hall drop as the rain, and my &s;peech &s;hall di&s;till as the dew,</HI> Deut. 32.1, 2. Slight not &s;uch Sabbath-&s;howres, nor mi&s;&s;e upon the Lords Day the for|mer or the latter rain.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="section">
<P><HI>Object.</HI> On the Sabbath in publike I &s;hall only hear another, at home I my &s;elf can &s;peak to God in prayer.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> In publike thou maye&s;t not on|ly hear, but al&s;o pray even then when not one word thou &s;peake&s;t. A man at home may &s;peak many words, yet make never a prayer: and a Chri&s;tian in the congregation may pray earne&s;tly, though he &s;peaks never a word.</P>
<P>'Tis not the &s;peaking of the tongue, but the working of the heart that makes prayer.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Non vocis magnitudi|ne, &s;ed cor|dis magna|nimitate clamandum e&s;t, &amp;c. Cla|mabat popu|lus et non audiebatur, tacebat <HI>Mo|&s;es</HI> et audi|ebatur ille. <HI>Ambro&s;.</HI> in P&s;al. <HI>119.</HI></NOTE> One ob&s;erves how the <HI>I&s;raelites,</HI> when the <HI>Egyptian</HI> army was behind them, and the Red-&s;ea before them, they lift up their voyces and cryed out to the Lord: yet God did not regard, this as a prayer. <HI>Exod.</HI> 14.10. Mo&s;es he was &s;ilent, not one word of prayer ap|pears: yet the Lord &s;ayes to <HI>Mo&s;es.
<PB N="66" REF="54"> Wherefore crye&s;t thou unto me?</HI> ver. 15. Though his tongue was &s;till, his heart was hot in holy prayer.</P>
<P>Secondly, he that will not upon the Lords Day hear Gods Word, his pri|vate prayer is but unplea&s;ing to God. 'Tis a &s;aying of one of the Ancients, God oft rejects his prayer in trouble, who in the daies of his peace does de|&s;pi&s;e Gods precepts:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Deus &s;aepe ejus precem in perturba|tione de&s;erit, qui precepta illius in tranquilli|tate contem|nit. <HI>Greg.</HI> Mor. li. <HI>5.</HI> ca. <HI>36.</HI></NOTE> and &s;o God does but abominate his prayer in private, who will not hear upon the Sabbath-day Gods holy precepts in publike. <HI>He that turnes away his ear from hearing the Law, his prayer &s;hall be an abomi|nation,</HI> Prov. 28.9. He mu&s;t fir&s;t hear God that will be heard of God.</P>
<P><HI>Objection,</HI> On the Sabbath in publike I may be put upon expence, in contri|buting to &s;ome or other in want, which by being at home I e&s;cape.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> 1. Charity to &s;uch as are in nece&s;&s;ity is alwaies an excellent duty. It makes a man to re&s;emble God, who hath never need to receive, but is ever mo&s;t free to give, <HI>Jam.</HI> 1.5.</P>
<P N="2">2. For the duty of charity the mo&s;t &s;ea&s;onable day is the Sabbath<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Chry&s;o. <HI>in</HI> 1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 11. <HI>Homil.</HI> 43.</NOTE> <HI>Chry&s;o|&s;tenme</HI> ob&s;erves that the Sabbath is
<PB N="67" REF="54"> the day when God in his be&s;t bounty does mo&s;t appear unto us, and there|fore for us to expre&s;&s;e our bounty to others the Sabbath is the fitte&s;t day.</P>
<P N="3">3. Though charitable duties are fit for every Sabbath, yet &s;uch occa&s;ions are not con&s;tant. Chri&s;tians indeed upon tho&s;e Lords Dayes when they are not communicating to, they &s;hould be commi&s;erating of &s;uch as &s;uffer in the World; when they are not in their con|tributions liberall, they &s;hould be in their compa&s;&s;ions lively. In their thoughts they &s;hould go forth and look upon the burdens of their brethren, <HI>re|membring tho&s;e that are in bonds as if bound with them, Hebr.</HI> 13.3.</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> Some Sabbath-work I am willing to do, but &s;o many works on the Sabbat be burden&s;ome.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer,</HI> 1. The more work, the more wages. The more good Sabbath-&s;eed men &s;owe, the more plentifull crops of comfort they &s;hall r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ap both in earth and heaven. God hath more Sabbath-mercies to vouch&s;afe then we duties to perform.</P>
<P N="2">2. As on this day men have much
<PB N="68" REF="55"> work: So they have much help; Scrip|tures, Mini&s;ters, Ordinances, yea, An|gells: yea, God him&s;elf, Father, Son, and Holy Gho&s;t. Our Lord is not like <HI>Pharaoh</HI> who required brick, but with|held &s;traw.</P>
<P N="3">3. The work indeed on the Lords Day is large, but it is all excellent bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e, that well becomes Kings: yea, and pions Princes have accounted it not onely their duty, but their dignity not onely to &s;ee that others, but them|&s;elves al&s;o in all holy duties do ob&s;erve the Lords Day.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Zozom.</HI> Eccl. hi&s;t. &s;i. <HI>1.</HI> ca. <HI>8.</HI></NOTE> Hi&s;tory in the prai&s;e of <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> reports much of this. And the Scripture prophe&s;ies that Prin|ces in Go&s;pell-times &s;hould not abate, but abound in Sabbath-day-duties. And the burnt-offering that the Prince &s;hall offer to the Lord in the Sabbath-day,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Exek.</HI> 46.4.</NOTE> &s;hall be &s;ix Lambs without blemi&s;h, and a Ram without blemi&s;h. This by type did &s;ignifie that in &s;ucceeding times the Service of God &s;hould be plentifully performed, even by the highe&s;t of the people upon the Lords holy Day.</P>
<P N="4">4. Upon the Lords Day, though of du|ties there be a great variety, yet there is no contrariety. In the &s;oule of a
<PB N="69" REF="55"> Saint there be contrary principles, fle&s;h and &s;pirit one oppo&s;ing another: but there are not in the Sabbath contrary practices each to other repugnant, one duty does not thwart another&punc; but Sabbath-&s;ervices are to each other helpfull. Prayer fits for hearing, and hearing prepares for prayer.</P>
<P N="5">5. The diver&s;ity and change of Sab|bath-work, &s;hewes the Lords wi&s;dome, yea, and the love of the Lord; to make exerci&s;es the more ea&s;ie, that holy labour may not be heavy labour, nor men tyred all Sabbath-time with one continued work, the Lord lets them pa&s;&s;e from one imployment to another for refre&s;hment.</P>
<P N="6">6. On the Sabbath we have &s;everal works, yet in all we &s;erve but one Ma&s;ter: Indeed had we divers Ma&s;ters, it might di&s;courage; but to us there is but one Lord. Upon the Sabbath in re|ligious &s;ervices we change our place, and we change our bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, but we do not change our Ma&s;ter: All is to Chri&s;t; to Chri&s;t men &s;hould &s;ay upon a Sabbath-morning, Though <HI>other Lords</HI> in the week-time <HI>have had</HI> too much <HI>dominion over us, yet now
<PB N="70" REF="56"> we will make mention of thy Name one|ly.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="section">
<P N="7">7. If multitude of &s;ervices be tedious, what will multitude of &s;ufferings be? <HI>Jam.</HI> 1.2. &s;ayes the Apo&s;tle, <HI>My bre|thren, count it all joy when ye fall into di|vers temptations.</HI> How will they re|joyce in divers daily di&s;tre&s;&s;es, that &s;hrink back becau&s;e exerci&s;es are divers upon the Lords day?</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> The Sabbath cea&s;es when pub|like exerci&s;es end: no longer holy day, then while holy duty.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> If &s;o, &s;ure then with &s;ome Sabbaths are very &s;hort. But &s;hall we think that men can begin and end a Sabbath when they li&s;t? The Churches of Chri&s;t in ages pa&s;t have determined of an entire day due to the Lord. The Sabbaths,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iren. <HI>cont.</HI> Valent. <HI>lib.</HI> 4. <HI>cap.</HI> 31. Augu&s;t. <HI>de temp. Serm</HI> 251.</NOTE> &s;ayes <HI>Irenaeus,</HI> do require a compleat day, and the per&s;everance of that whole day in the Lords &s;ervice. <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> declares his judgement touch|ing the time of the Sabbath from that text, <HI>Levit.</HI> 23.32. <HI>From even to even &s;hall ye celebrate your Sabbath.</HI> 'Tis evi|dent from that place of the Apo&s;tle, <HI>Jam.</HI> 2.10. that who&s;oever carele&s;&s;ely ca&s;ts by any part of Gods precept,
<PB N="71" REF="56"> tran&s;gre&s;&s;es the whole law of God; and thus, who&s;oever wilfully neglects any part of Gods Sabbath, is guilty of breaking this whole holy day: men mu&s;t not &s;uite the day to their duties, but their duties to the day; while the day endures their duty remains.</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> But &s;o to keep the whole day is terribly tyring: a hard &s;ervice, who can do it?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> God becau&s;e of our infirmi|ties does afford what may refre&s;h, the better to bear up our bodies the Lord allowes moderate &s;leep in the night, and temperate food in the day. True, it was in <HI>Tertullians</HI> time a di&s;pute,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tertul.</HI> de coron. milit, cap. <HI>3.</HI> Tom. <HI>1.</HI> pag <HI>747.</HI></NOTE> whether it be not a duty on the Lords day to fa&s;t? but our Saviours Apologie for his Di&s;ciples, <HI>in plucking and eating the ears of Corn upon the Sabbath day,</HI> may ea&s;ily quiet that que&s;tion, <HI>Mark.</HI> 2.25. And ble&s;&s;ed be the Lord for the allowances of his love.</P>
<P N="2">2. Men do not complain of whole dayes for the world, <HI>They ri&s;e early, and go to bed late, and eat the bread of carefulne&s;&s;e,</HI> P&s;al. 127.2. They do not &s;ay all the week, <HI>when the morning is, Would God it were evening,</HI> but rather
<PB N="72" REF="57"> <HI>in the evening they wi&s;h, would it were morning again,</HI> to go after the world afre&s;h; yet we find &s;ome even in &s;in|ful wayes &s;o unwearied, that when one day is pa&s;t, they pitch upon the very next day with inlarged re&s;olutions: <HI>Come ye,</HI> &s;ay they, <HI>I will fetch wine, and we will fill our &s;elves with &s;trong drink and to morrow &s;hall be as this d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y, and much more abundant,</HI> I&s;ai. 56.12.</P>
<P N="3">3. We may &s;ee what &s;ome of Gods &s;ervants have de&s;ired; in&s;tance <HI>David,</HI> that dear &s;ervant of God, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 27.4. <HI>One thing have I de&s;ired of the Lord,</HI> (&s;ayes he) <HI>and that will I &s;eek after, that I may dwell in the hou&s;e of the Lord all the dayes of my life.</HI> As if he &s;hould wi&s;h it were alway Sabbath day with him. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 84.4, 10. <HI>O ble&s;&s;ed are they that dwell in thy hou&s;e, &amp;c. For a day in thy Courts is bet|ter then a thou&s;and: I had rather be a door-keeper in the hou&s;e of my God, then to dwell in the tents of wickedne&s;&s;e.</HI> Were men of <HI>Davids</HI> mind, a day in &s;even for the &s;ervice of the Lord would not be too long.</P>
<P N="4">4. There have been them that have &s;pent divers dayes and nights al&s;o in the &s;ervice of God: &s;ee a con&s;iderable in|&s;tance,
<PB N="73" REF="57"> <HI>Luk.</HI> 2.37. <HI>A widow of about four&s;core and four years, which departed not from the Temple, but &s;erved God with fastings and prayers night and day.</HI> For her &s;exe] A woman: For her ca&s;e] <HI>A widow,</HI> not having the company or comfort of a husband. For her age] <HI>About four&s;core and four years, yet night and day with fa&s;ting and prayer &s;erving God in the Temple.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. For &s;uch as are tyred out with the time of a Sabbath, would they go to heaven? There 'tis ever Sabbath, alway &s;inging, &s;erving, and &s;etting up of God. <HI>Bernard</HI> urges the ob&s;ervation of the Sabbath, and holding out in ho|ly exerci&s;es thereon upon this account, that by pre&s;ent re&s;t men may learn to live in re&s;t eternal,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Bern.</HI> &s;uper Saluz Regina Serm. <HI>4.</HI> Col. <HI>1744.</HI></NOTE> and by per&s;evering &s;ervice men may be prompt to perpe|tuate the Lords everla&s;ting prai&s;e. But how would men do to endure heaven, and a never ending Sabbath there, who know not here how to bear out the durance of a Sabbath day?</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> I cannot &s;o tend duties on the day, for I have other works of ne|ce&s;&s;ity to do.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> 1. There are works of nece&s;&s;ity
<PB N="74" REF="58"> which we grant may be done upon the Lords day,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Vid. <HI>Lyra.</HI> in Exod. <HI>20.</HI> &amp; in Jo|nna. <HI>5.8. Beda</HI> in Marc. <HI>2.23. Zanch</HI> in <HI>4.</HI> praece.</NOTE> as by food to refre&s;h our bodies, to re&s;i&s;t the inva&s;ion of ene|mies, to &s;top the irruption of waters, to quench the rage of fire, to pre&s;erve the life of our Cattel, and the like.</P>
<P N="2">2. Tho&s;e that &s;ay on the Sabbath &s;uch things they mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily do, ought yet carefully to &s;ee, it be not
<LIST>
<ITEM>A fained nece&s;&s;ity, or</ITEM>
<ITEM>A made nece&s;&s;ity.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>To pretend a things nece&s;&s;ity, when yet indeed no nece&s;&s;ity of &s;uch a thing to be done, is to commit a double &s;in:
<LIST>
<ITEM>To do what is not good, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>To &s;ay what is not true.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Men mu&s;t al&s;o beware they bring not a nece&s;&s;ity upon them&s;elves, upon the Sabbath to do &s;uch things as they might prevent through a prudent fore&s;ight, this is to make a &s;in with a nece&s;&s;ity. <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 58.13. <HI>Thou &s;halt call the Sabbath a delight, not doing thine own wayes, nor find|ing thine own nece&s;&s;ities;</HI> &s;o &s;ome Para|phra&s;ing expound the Hebrew word: men have many nece&s;&s;ities which yet are of their own cau&s;ing, and not of Gods appointing.</P>
<P N="3">3. There are things nece&s;&s;ary in their
<PB N="75" REF="58"> &s;ea&s;on, that yet are not nece&s;&s;ary upon the Sabbath. 'Tis nece&s;&s;ary for a man to follow his lawfull calling, and to be diligent in his worldly bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. When we read (&s;ayes <HI>Bernard</HI>) that <HI>Adam</HI> in the plea&s;ant place of Paradi&s;e was appointed to work, &s;hall we think that the &s;ons of <HI>Adam</HI> in the trouble&s;ome Wilderne&s;&s;e of this world are placed for play? No, 'tis nece&s;&s;ary for the &s;ons of men to be indu&s;trious in their lawful affairs: <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> putting his hand in his bo&s;ome, 'twas leprous; but putting it out, 'twas made whole. God hath given men hands, for a threefold work, &s;ayes one:</P>
<P>To lift them up in prayer to God,</P>
<P>To &s;tretch them out in charity to the poor; and</P>
<P>To put them down by labour in a lawful calling. So that for a man in his lawful calling to labour it is nece&s;&s;a|ry, viz. in its &s;ea&s;on. But herein to la|bour upon the Lords day is dangerous: The gain of this day may be as the gold of <HI>Tholo&s;&s;e,</HI> as the cole brought to the ne&s;t &s;etting the young and all on fire. <HI>Luk.</HI> 10. Reproof is given to <HI>Martha</HI> by our Saviour, for her being about
<PB N="76" REF="59"> ordinary affairs, a&s;&s;uring her that <HI>[One thing was needfull.]</HI> Needfull it was for <HI>Martha</HI> to be about her hou&s;hold bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. Yea, but not then when Chri&s;t was pre&s;ent, and an opportunity &s;erved for &s;oul-advantage, which her &s;i&s;ter <HI>Mary</HI> minded. Thus though 'tis needfull for Chri&s;tians to look after their lawfull occa&s;ions in the world, yet not upon the Lords day, the &s;ea&s;on for &s;oul-advantages.</P>
<P N="4">4. Are &s;uch wordly walks and works nece&s;&s;ary? and are the works of Gods wor&s;hip arbitrary? yea, upon the Sabbath is not the &s;ervice of God much more nece&s;&s;ary?</P>
<P>As the Apo&s;tle &s;aid, <HI>Act.</HI> 4. <HI>Whether it be more needfull to obey God or men, judge ye:</HI> So &s;ay I, Whether it be on the Sabbath more needfull to &s;erve God or your &s;elves, judge ye; whether more needfull to take care for your temporal or your eternal being, judge ye. A|mong nece&s;&s;aries that which is mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary, is to be fir&s;t minded.</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> We &s;ee none &s;o exact, our neighbours are not &s;o nice, but take their liberties on the Sabbath; and why not we the &s;ame?</P>
<PB N="77" REF="59">
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> 1. We mu&s;t live by precept, not by example; 'tis the Law of God, and not the lives of men that mu&s;t be our rule. As he that will be for God mu&s;t cro&s;&s;e the mo&s;t of men; &s;o he that would go to heaven mu&s;t leave the greate&s;t part of the world behind him. He &s;hall never write a good hand, that makes the world his Copy; nor &s;hall he ever well ob&s;erve a Sabbath, who frames him&s;elf unto the common platforme.</P>
<P N="2">2. If patterns are to bo followed, <HI>Be ye then followers of God as dear children,</HI> Ephe&s;. 5.1. <HI>In &s;ix dayes God made hea|ven and earth, and re&s;ted the &s;eventh day; wherefore the Lord ble&s;&s;ed the Sabbath-day, and hollowed it.</HI> Likewi&s;e let us look un|to the Lord Chri&s;t, <HI>Luk.</HI> 4.16. <HI>He went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath day, as his cu&s;tome was, &amp;c.</HI> Learn we ought of Chri&s;t, though not (as <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> ob&s;erves) to walk on the waters, yet to work in Gods wor&s;hip upon the Sabbath-day.</P>
<P N="3">3. If we will take our Model herein after the manner of men, 'tis be&s;t to look back to preceding Saints. Gods Church and people con&s;idered as pa&s;t and pre&s;ent may be compared to
<PB N="78" REF="60"> that cloud, <HI>Exodus</HI> 14. which was partly bright, and partly dark. The bright part was before, to give light to the <HI>I&s;raelites,</HI> and the dark part be|hind, to blind the <HI>Egyptians.</HI> The Saints and people of God aforetime were as the bright &s;ide of the cloud, &s;hining clear in Chi&s;tianity, &s;trict in all the waies of God, and mo&s;t exact in Sab|bath-&s;ervice; &s;uch as now profe&s;&s;e them|&s;elves the Saints of God, are as the following dark &s;ide of the cloud, more dim and dull in holy duties, more loo&s;e upon the Lords Day, having le&s;&s;e of the life and lu&s;tre of religion. O let us but think what was the care of Chri|&s;tians not many years ago, to improve Sabbaths, and all the &s;ervice of God, &s;uch follow, with holy Apo&s;tles and Martyrs, <HI>and the &s;pirits of ju&s;t men made perfect.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. If herein we will take &s;uch as are pre&s;ent for our pattern, Ble&s;&s;ed be the Lord, &s;ome are left, that hold up religi|on to the life; and with great care look to the Lords Day, and the duties there|of. Indeed there are divers of whom we may complain,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Chry&s;o&s;t.</HI> in Matth. H&ograve;m. <HI>3.</HI></NOTE> as <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tome</HI> of &s;ome in his time: Whereby (&s;ayes he) &s;hall I
<PB N="79" REF="60"> know you to be Chri&s;tians? Do you not delight in any place more then in the Courts of the Lords hou&s;e? and take plea&s;ure in any time, more then in the hours of the Lords day? Yet &s;ome few are found faithfull to the Lord, and his Day, and &s;uch we &s;hould duly ob|&s;erve.</P>
<P N="5">5. When an age is in religion loo&s;e, 'twill be the more any mans credit and comfort to be exact and &s;trict. To be a preci&s;e Sabbath-keeper in a Sabbath-breaking-age, that's a mans honour: For a man to remain &s;ound in his principles, and punctuall in the practicall ob&s;ervation of the Sabbath, when oppo&s;ite evills are high and huge,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Augu&s;t. <HI>de Tempo. Serm.</HI> 23 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> in times and places that &s;trange birds build their ne&s;ts, when multitudes in Townes and Pari&s;hes (as <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> re&s;em|bles them) are like Toades and Frogs in fens and puddles, Croaking again&s;t the Lords Day. When many as <HI>Mu&s;|culus</HI> upon the fourth commandement complaines,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Beza in <HI>Cant.</HI> So|lo: <HI>Hom.</HI> 30. Bucer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>in P&s;al.</HI> 92.</NOTE> (the like <HI>Beza Bucer</HI> and others laments) pittifully prophane the Lords holy Day; this is prai&s;e, then to be painful, pure and permanent in the practice of all the Lords-Day-du|ties.</P>
<PB N="80" REF="61">
<P><HI>Object.</HI> We for our &s;elves ob&s;erve the Sabbath, but there are &s;ome with us, that will have their liberties, and who can help it?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Superiours mu&s;t help as much as is po&s;&s;ible, that others under them as well as them&s;elves ob&s;erve the Lords Day.</P>
<P>Therefore as many of us as have others within our gates, and under our government, we ought as much as in us lyes, upon the Lords Day to endea|vour the drawing them to holy duties, which may appear plain through a dou|ble proof:
<LIST>
<ITEM>The precept of God about them, &amp;</ITEM>
<ITEM>The property of God in them.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. God gives his precept for them herein, as we find in the fourth Com|mandement: <HI>The Seventh day is the Sabbath: in it thou &s;halt do no manner of work, thou, nor thy &s;on, nor thy daughter, thy man-&s;ervant, nor thy maid-&s;ervant, &amp;c.</HI> If it be our duty to keep them from ordinary work for the ca&s;e of their bodies, then to bring them to holy or|dinances for the good of their Souls: and the bodily re&s;t we are to allow them lyes upon this account, they are
<PB N="81" REF="61"> to re&s;t from the common works of their vocation in order to the exerci&s;es of religion in private and publike upon the Lords Day. <HI>Luke</HI> 13.15. <HI>Doth not each one of you on the Sabbath loo&s;e his oxe or his a&s;&s;e from the &s;tall, and lead him away to watering?</HI> and ought not each one of us on the Lords Day to loo&s;e his children and Servants from our bu&s;ine&s;&s;es and hou&s;es, and lead them away with us to be in&s;tructed? &s;hould not every one of us publikely pre&s;ent our &s;elves on the Sabbath before the Lord, as it were, &s;aying, <HI>Behold, here am I, and the chil|dren and &s;ervaants that thou ha&s;t given me?</HI> And if we go before God alone lea|ving our families to their liberties, what will the Lord &s;ay? As <HI>Eliah</HI> &s;aid to <HI>Da|vid</HI> when he came to the Camp of the <HI>I&s;raelites,</HI> 1. <HI>Sam.</HI> 17.28. <HI>How come&s;t thou down hither? where is the flock? and with whom ha&s;t thou left tho&s;e few &s;heep in the wilderne&s;&s;e?</HI> And may not God thus que&s;tion &s;ome, when they come, and on the Sabbath day appear in pub|like, How come&s;t thou hither? where is thy family? with whom ha&s;t thou left thy Children, and &s;ervants?<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Eu&s;eb. <HI>de vita</HI> Con&s;t. <HI>li</HI> 4. <HI>Ca.</HI> 18. <HI>et</HI> 19&punc;</NOTE> <HI>Eu&s;ebius</HI> reports of <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> what good laws
<PB N="82" REF="62"> he made for the bringing forth of fami|lies, all &s;orts of &s;ervants, yea &s;ouldiets and men of war, to Gods publike wor|&s;hip upon the Sabbath day. And other pious Princes in times pa&s;t, have thought it no le&s;&s;e a part of their duty.</P>
<P N="2">2. God keeps his propriety in them; he is the great hou&s;holder, and all our families are his; as <HI>Laban</HI> &s;aid to <HI>Ja|cob, Gen.</HI> 31.43. <HI>The&s;e daughters are my daughters, and the&s;e children are my chil|dren, and the&s;e cattel are my cattel, and all that thou &s;ee&s;t is mine:</HI> Thus &s;ayes God to a Governour, <HI>Thy &s;ons are my &s;ons, and thy &s;ervants are my &s;ervants, and all that thou ha&s;t is mine.</HI> Now as by virtue of our intere&s;t in them, and authority over them, they work for us on the week: So by virtue of Gods intere&s;t in them, and &s;overeignty above them, they are bound to &s;erve God upon his holy Sabbath; they have a Father in heaven, and a Ma&s;ter in hea|ven, who&s;e commands e&s;pecially on this day they ought to obey, which we mu&s;t further, not hinder. As the Lord &s;aid by <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> to <HI>Pharaoh, Let my people go, that they may &s;erve me:</HI> &s;o he &s;ayes to us, Let my children go, and my &s;ervants go,
<PB N="83" REF="62"> that they may wor&s;hip me upon my ho|ly Sabbath. <HI>Pharaoh</HI> again&s;t this was froward, but think what befell him, and let us fear. We &s;hould be in this ca&s;e towards all under our charge, <HI>as the Ma&s;ter of the Colt, as &s;oon as he had heard the Lord had &s;ent for him, he &s;treight way unloo&s;ed him, and let him go,</HI> Luk. 19. Let them be loath herein, if we do not put them on, the utmo&s;t we can, our &s;elves fall under &s;in. Thus having &s;een the &s;everal &s;orts of men &s;inning again&s;t the Lords day, and examined the arguments which on each &s;ide they urge, an&s;wer|ing among objections the principal they pre&s;&s;e, that they may pa&s;&s;e with|out blame;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Multitudo peccantium auget pecca|tum,</NOTE> I proceed from the multi|tude of the &s;inners to di&s;cover</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="11" TYPE="section">
<P>The Magnitude of the &s;in.</P>
<P>Sin that lies again&s;t the Lords day is Great
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both in judgement,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And in practice.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>To erre in opinion upon this point, as the error
<LIST>
<ITEM>Is very &s;en&s;le&s;&s;e,</ITEM>
<ITEM>So very &s;infull.</ITEM>
<ITEM>'Tis a &s;en&s;le&s;&s;e error;</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>For &s;uch as own the Lord of the day,
<PB N="84" REF="63"> yet to deny the day of the Lord: for men to acknowledge them&s;elves under the command of Chri&s;t, and yet to be above the Sabbath of Chri&s;tians, &amp;c.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>'Tis a &s;inful error.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>'Tis an error full of &s;in, in judgement to be again&s;t the Chri&s;tian Sabbath: for it is
<LIST>
<ITEM>A Mother-error,</ITEM>
<ITEM>A Ma&s;ter-error.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>And therefore a mon&s;terous error; men may ea&s;ily imagine, many other errors are under the beck, and bred in the belly of this. Hence people cry down Sanctification, Mortification, Re|pentance, practical holine&s;&s;e, publick Ordinances, Prayer, Preaching, Scrip|tures, and all the means of grace, &amp;c. Yea, hence ready to plead for Popery, to imbrace Images, and advance all Idol-wor&s;hip. At this one door this tri|ple crown will ea&s;ily come in, with all Antichri&s;tian, yea Heatheni&s;h vanities: 'Tis a fundamental error, O what <HI>Ba|bels</HI> may be built upon this: yea, by this &s;uch batteries may be made, as may &s;hake and &s;hatterdown the whole Fa|brick of Chri&s;tian Religion. This makes many &s;o mi&s;erably mi&s;u&s;e Scrip|ture:
<PB N="85" REF="63"> &s;ome texts they muzzle their mouthes, and will not &s;uffer them to &s;peak; other texts they &s;et upon the rack, making them &s;peak what God never meant, and all to make the Sab|bath nothing: Satan having not a greater de&s;ign then to down this day.</P>
<P>And indeed the Divel well knowes, there is not a readier way to rout &amp; out all the truthes of God all the world over, and to introduce all errors into all parts of the Chri&s;tian world, then to corrupt the judgements of people, with an Anti&s;abbatarian principle. Ther|fore to erre herein, is a very great &s;in.</P>
<P N="2">2. To erre in point of practice, and to tran&s;gre&s;&s;e again&s;t the Lords day in re&s;pect of the duties thereof, is a &s;in exceeding &s;inful:
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both for its gradation,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And for its dilation.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>If we ob|&s;erve,
<LIST>
<ITEM>How high it ri&s;eth, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>How far it reacheth,</ITEM>
</LIST> The &s;in is great.</P>
<P>Great is the &s;inne of Sabbath neg|lects:
<LIST>
<PB N="86" REF="64">
<ITEM>If we con|&s;ider
<LIST>
<ITEM>How it a&s;cends in height, &amp;</ITEM>
<ITEM>How it extends in breadth.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. For height;] This &s;in goes up to God, and is a &s;in of &s;uch degrees a|gain&s;t him, as that therein are not onely many &s;ins enwrapped, but each &s;in ri|&s;ing higher then the other, &s;o that the latter is much wor&s;e then the former. As <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> once aggravated <HI>Adams</HI> &s;in in eating the fruit God had forbidden:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Augu&s;t. <HI>Enchi. ad</HI> Laur. <HI>cap.</HI> 45.</NOTE> &s;o may I aggravate this &s;in, in not keep|ing the day God hath commanded; For therein is
<LIST>
<ITEM>Ingratitude,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Forgetfulne&s;s,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Perfidiou&s;ne&s;s,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Theft,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robbery, &amp;</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sacriledge.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Ingratitude.] God at the beginning gave man a Sabbath; but man by &s;in &s;oon lo&s;t his Sabbath-right, yet God after gives men a new Charter for Sab|bath-priviledges, Chri&s;t confirmes it; the day is &s;ure,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Con&s;ule <HI>Ambro&s;.</HI> Orat. de obi|tu <HI>Satyri.</HI></NOTE> the mercy is &s;weet. Lord, what is man? even a mon&s;ter in nature (&s;ayes one) herein to be un|grateful. For him that is unworthy of a minute, to be unthankful for a day, and &s;uch a DAY as this; a mon|&s;trous &s;in indeed.</P>
<P>Forgetfulne&s;&s;e.] As for God to for|&s;ake
<PB N="87" REF="64"> man is among the &s;ore&s;t judge|ments: So for man to forget God is among the greate&s;t &s;ins. When the Scripture would &s;et out the wor&s;t of wicked per&s;ons and Nations, it &s;ayes they are &s;uch as forget God. Now &s;ure, he that does not remember the Sabbath of God, he does forget the God of the Sabbath. Yea, it argues God for|gotten all the week, when men do not remember the Sabbath day and duty.</P>
<P>Perfidiou&s;ne&s;&s;e.] This ble&s;&s;ed day is one of tho&s;e precious things God hath commited to mans tru&s;t to keep; now to be untru&s;ty and treacherous herein, is a mo&s;t abominable &s;in. <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> was wont to &s;ay, Such men I am &s;ure wil never be faithfull to me, that are un|faithful to their God. No marvel men betray &s;o many tru&s;ts in the world, when they deal fal&s;ely with God, in his holy times and things. To be ungrateful to God is bad, to be forgetful of God is wor&s;e, but to be perfidious with God wor&s;t of all.</P>
<P>Theft.] Though God hath given man the Sabbath for his u&s;e, yet he &s;till continues therein his own intere&s;t, and
<PB N="88" REF="65"> lets it go upon no other account, then to have it religiou&s;ly kept; therefore they that take it from God upon other terms, and turn it to other ends, &s;hall be thru&s;t among theeves in the great day of the Lord. Perhaps a man may &s;ay with <HI>Samuel, Whom have I ever defraud|ed? who&s;e Oxe or A&s;&s;e have I taken, &amp;c?</HI> Some though they have not theeved from their neighbour, yet they have &s;tollen from God the time of his holy day. Who is not afraid to be found &s;uch a Felon?</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> lib. <HI>4.</HI> in Exod. &amp; habetur <HI>14.</HI> q. <HI>15.</HI> c.</NOTE>Robbery.] <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> well ob&s;erves, that Robbers are wor&s;e then theeves: Theeves they take nothers goods &s;e|cretly, by fraud, when the owners are not aware: But Robbers they take openly, by force, the owners looking on. Thus men take away the Sabbath day, under Gods all-&s;eeing eye; that which God holds, they profanely pluck away: among high-way-Robbers &s;hall &s;uch be ranked not repenting, <HI>Mal.</HI> 3.8. <HI>Will a man rob God? yet ye have robbed me: But ye &s;ay, Wherein have we robbed thee?</HI> even in the dayes and times of the Sabbath. Yea, and this greatens the &s;in of &s;uch men: they that
<PB N="89" REF="65"> theeve and rob, they po&s;&s;ibly may plead nece&s;&s;ity, having nothing of their own whereon to live. But the Lord hath allowed men time of their own, for any needfull and lawfull work, and yet to rob him of his Sabbath?</P>
<P>Sacriledge.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> &s;u|per Joann. &amp; habetur <HI>13.</HI> q. <HI>4.</HI></NOTE>] This is wor&s;e then all the re&s;t. <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> does admirably aggra|vate this &s;in, and he makes it &s;o much the greater, becau&s;e it is a &s;in which cannot be committed but again&s;t God alone.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Augu. <HI>cont:</HI> Cre&s;. <HI>lib.</HI> 4. <HI>cap.</HI> 10.</NOTE> And what way can it be wor&s;e committed again&s;t God, then by pol|luting the holy time of his Sabbath? To abu&s;e &s;anctified time, is &s;uch Sacri|ledge as the Lord mo&s;t abominates: <HI>Thou then that abhorre&s;t Idols, do&s;t thou commit Sacriledge?</HI> Rom. 2.22. Why, is it not wor&s;e Sacriledge to take this ble&s;&s;ed day from Gods holy wor&s;hip, then to take the &s;ilver Cup from the communion Table, or the great Bible from the reading Desk? Be not de|ceived, here be heaps upon heaps, many &s;ins piled upon this &s;in, yea, more might be mentioned, as di&s;obedience, rebellion, unbeliefe, pride, &s;elf-conceit, a ba&s;e and low e&s;teem of the wayes of God, Word of God, wor&s;hip of God,
<PB N="90" REF="66"> all concurre to make this &s;in hateful and horrible in the height thereof.</P>
<P N="2">2. For the breadth;] This &s;in is of a large &s;pread,
<Q><L>Both again&s;t God the Father of Chri&s;t,</L>
<L>And again&s;t Chri&s;t the Son of God.</L></Q></P>
<P N="1">1. This &s;in again&s;t the Sabbath day, con&s;idered in the duties thereof, does reach &s;o far again&s;t God, as it is found to be a &s;in
<LIST>
<ITEM>Again&s;t all the Attributes of God, &amp;</ITEM>
<ITEM>Again&s;t all the Ordinances of God.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. The Attributes of God are herein all &s;inned again&s;t: He that takes not care to keep the Sabbath of God, &s;lights the wi&s;dom of God, di&s;obeys the will of God, de&s;pi&s;es the mercy of God, provokes the Ju&s;tice of God, con|temns the power of God, abu&s;es the patience of God, defiles the holine&s;&s;e of God, defaces the beauty of God; yea, as it were undermines the whole being of God ble&s;&s;ed for ever: No marvel if they that ob&s;erve no Sabbath, &s;hould believe there is no God.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Ordinances of God are here|in all &s;inned again&s;t; to &s;in again&s;t Ordinances, is to pollute tho&s;e holy
<PB N="91" REF="66"> ve&s;&s;els wherein are laid up for us the trea&s;ures of heaven, and to cut tho&s;e precious pipes that convey to us the water of life. To &s;in again&s;t Ordinan|ces, is to break tho&s;e Chariots wherein the Lord rides towards us, and to &s;ink tho&s;e Boats which are to carry us over to God. To &s;in again&s;t Ordinances is to ca&s;t by tho&s;e clear Lanthornes wherein the light of the Lord &s;hines, and to fling dirt in tho&s;e bright gla&s;&s;es wherein the face of our God is &s;een. Word, Sacraments, and Prayer, all are as it were pulled in peeces and put out of doors when the Lords day is laid by, and Sabbaths &s;et a&s;ide.</P>
<P N="2">2 This &s;in again&s;t the Sabbath day in its duties reaches al&s;o &s;o far again&s;t Chri&s;t, as its found to be a &s;in
<LIST>
<ITEM>Again&s;t the e&s;tates of Chri&s;t, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Again&s;t the offices of Chri&s;t.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Chri&s;t con&s;idered in his e&s;tates, is by this &s;in injured
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both as humbled in his death,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And as honoured in his re&s;urrection.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. To &s;in again&s;t the Lords day, is to &s;in again&s;t the Lords death. This holy day was one of tho&s;e precious things Chri&s;t purcha&s;ed, and with his blood
<PB N="92" REF="67"> bought. As with his blood he bought a people to &s;erve him, &s;o with his blood he bought this time for them to &s;erve him in. To &s;in then again&s;t the day of Chri&s;t, is to &s;in again&s;t the blood of Chri&s;t: What &s;in &s;o abominably black, as to &s;in again&s;t Chri&s;ts ble&s;&s;ed blood? I was nothing (&s;ayes <HI>Au&s;tin</HI>) and God made me with his word;<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Aug.</HI> Serm. <HI>151.</HI> de tempore.</NOTE> I was wor&s;e then nothing and Chri&s;t re|deemed me with his blood; what &s;hall I &s;ay? &s;hall I ever &s;in? we may well add,</P>
<P N="2">2. To &s;in again&s;t this in&s;titution of Chri&s;t, is to &s;in again&s;t the re&s;urrection of Chri&s;t.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Augu&s;t</HI> ad <HI>Janua. 119.</HI> cap. <HI>13.</HI> &amp; ad Ca&s;ul. <HI>86.</HI> Idem, de civit. Dei. lib. <HI>22.</HI> cap. <HI>30.</HI> Idem, de verb is Apo&s;t. Serm. <HI>15. Chemni.</HI> ex|am. cap. de diebus fe&s;tis. <HI>Sozom.</HI> lib. <HI>1.</HI> cap. <HI>8.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> does oft in his wri|tings prai&s;e the practice of the Apo&s;tles, in that they did ob&s;erve this fir&s;t day of the week to be the Lords day, upon the account of Chri&s;ts re&s;urrection. So <HI>Chem|nitius</HI> commends it much, &s;aying that the celebration of the day of Chri&s;ts re&s;urrection, was the be&s;t way for the abrogation of Judai&s;me, and the exal|tation of Chri&s;tiani&s;me in the world. <HI>Sozomene</HI> &s;ets this down for the honour of <HI>Con&s;tantine,</HI> that in the Law he made for the keeping of this day, he laid the &s;trength of his rea&s;on upon Chri&s;ts re|&s;urrection.
<PB N="93" REF="67"> On the contrary, how cro&s;&s;e is this to Chri&s;t who ro&s;e from the dead this day? And what a &s;inful &s;hame is this to them that profe&s;&s;e Chri&s;tianity, to ca&s;t by that day whereon Chri&s;t ro&s;e from the dead? Oh the &s;in of &s;uch as put this day to death, when Chri&s;t died that it might live! and how abomi|nable is it to bury this ble&s;&s;ed day, which God rai&s;ed together with Chri&s;t! This is a wickedne&s;&s;e worthy to be cryed down.</P>
<P N="2">2. Chri&s;t con&s;idered in his offices is herein injured,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both as a King,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And as a Prophet.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. Chri&s;t as a King is herein ca&s;t off: 'Tis one of the Regalities of a King, to appoint his own time when his &s;ervants &s;hall attend.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Berna.</HI> Serm. <HI>2.</HI> in Epipha.</NOTE> Chri&s;t (as one well notes) though his <HI>kingdom be not of this world,</HI> yet he hath his kingdom in this world; and in this world is to exerci&s;e Kingly power, in re&s;pect of his di&s;po&s;e of per|&s;ons and &s;ea&s;ons, times and things: 'Tis the me&s;&s;age that every Sabbath-breaker &s;ends to heaven, <HI>Chri&s;t &s;hall not be our King, we will not have him to reign over us.</HI></P>
<P N="2"><PB N="94" REF="68">2. Chri&s;t as a Prophet is herein put off:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tertul.</HI> li. contra judae|ot.</NOTE> An ancient writer affirmes, that Chri&s;t by his coming into the world, accompli&s;hed the prophecies of prece|dent Prophets, and as it were &s;ealed up them: but left a Prophetical office of his own to be fulfilling even unto the end of the world, and the Sabbath day to be the e&s;pecial day for his exerci&s;e&punc; in this office.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ramus</HI> de relig. lib. <HI>2.</HI> cap. <HI>6.</HI></NOTE> Another calls it the School-day, wherein Chri&s;t the great Doctor of his Church, who&s;e chair is in heaven,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Augu&s;t. <HI>Serm.</HI> 4. <HI>in fe&s;t.</HI> Jo. B.</NOTE> keeps School on earth, and tho&s;e per&s;ons proudly contemn Chri&s;ts teaching, who neglect Sabbath-time. Is not this then a great &s;in? a &s;in again&s;t God and Chri&s;t: a &s;in again&s;t Law and Go&s;pel: a &s;in which Pagans and Divels are not guilty of.</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> This is the &s;in of &s;uch as pro|phane and pollute the Lords day, but I do not &s;o, though I do not the duties thereof.</P>
<P><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Polluitur Sabbathum, cum cujus grati&acirc; in|&s;tituitur, &agrave; pleri&s;que plane non curatur. <HI>Mu&s;cul.</HI></NOTE><HI>An&s;w.</HI> They pollute the Lords day who do not keep it holy; as they are &s;aid to defile Gods Name, who do not &s;anctifie the Name of God, <HI>Jer.</HI> 34.16.</P>
<P>To fanctifie the Sabbath is to &s;pend
<PB N="95" REF="68"> it in holy exerci&s;es<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lyra. <HI>in Exod.</HI> 26. Bulling, <HI>in Rom.</HI> 14.5.</NOTE> and not to &s;anctifie it, is to pollute it.</P>
<P>There are things men may be &s;aid to de&s;troy them, when they do not take care to pre&s;erve them: So &s;uch are &s;aid to defile the Sabbath, who do not u&s;e the means to &s;anctifie it. But for this, that &s;aying of the Prophet may &s;uffice, <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 56.2. <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed is the man that doeth this, and the &s;on of man that laith hold on it, which keepeth the Sabbath holy, and pol|luteth it not.</HI> By which place it plainly appears, that as he doth not pollute the Sabbath who keeps it holy;<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Zanchi.</HI> de tribus Eloh. part. <HI>2.</HI> lib. <HI>3.</HI> cap <HI>9.</HI> &amp; de oper. creat par. <HI>3.</HI> lib. <HI>1.</HI> cap. <HI>1.</HI> Idem in <HI>4.</HI> praecep.</NOTE> &s;o he who keeps not the Sabbath holy, doth pol|lute it. Now all accord, that to keep the Sabbath holy, is to pa&s;&s;e the whole day in pious duties. Indeed divers they think they very well keep the Sabbath day, if they forbear wicked and world|ly works, though that day little be done in the &s;ervice of God: But as God &s;peaks in the Prophet, <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 58.5. <HI>Is it &s;uch a fa&s;t as I have cho&s;en?</HI> &s;o is it &s;uch a Sabbath as I have appointed? a day for men to do what they will? to take up and lay down duties as they plea&s;e? Is it &s;uch a Sabbath as I have commanded? a day for men to take
<PB N="96" REF="69"> their carnal ea&s;e, to be idle, &s;lothful, and vain? Is not this the day that I have ordained? to be loo&s;e from earth|ly delights, worldly cares, to be free from all entanglements for God? Is it not for men to give them&s;elves wholly to holy &s;ervice? Is it not to pray fervent|ly, to heare diligently, &amp;c? The neglect of the&s;e upon the Lords day, is a loud &s;in.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="section">
<P N="2">2. The judgements that &s;uch &s;inners are &s;ubject to, come next to be noted. The&s;e are,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both Privative</ITEM>
<ITEM>And po&s;itive</ITEM>
</LIST> Penalties.</P>
<P>Through this are
<LIST>
<ITEM>Good things renounced, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Evil things inflicted.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Gods judgements of the Privative &s;ort; are either
<LIST>
<ITEM>In temporal matters, or</ITEM>
<ITEM>In Spiritual means.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. God in judgment removes, or re|&s;treines matters nece&s;&s;ary for men in this world for the &s;inful neglect of his Sabbaths and &s;ervice;</P>
<P>As things needfull
<LIST>
<ITEM>For their per&s;onal &s;u&s;tentation,</ITEM>
<ITEM>For their political pre&s;ervation.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. Things neeedful and good for the
<PB N="97" REF="69"> &s;upporting of their bodies as they are men God removes as a puni&s;hment for this &s;inful neglect of the Lords day. Hence God does not hear the heavens, the heavens do not hear the earth, the earth does not hear the Corn.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Cypria. <HI>con|tra</HI> Demet.</NOTE> <HI>Cyprian</HI> hath an elegant &s;aying: thou complai|e&s;t that now adaies the fountains are not &s;o flowing, nor the air &s;o whole|&s;ome, nor the rain &s;o plentiful, nor the earth &s;o fruitful, &amp;c. Do&s;t thou &s;erve God by who&s;e means all &s;erves thee? do&s;t thou waite on him by who&s;e beck all waits on thee, &amp;c? God withdraws his bounty when men omit their duty. When the Lords day and religious du|ties, his hou&s;e and holy things are laid wa&s;te; what follows? let the Lord him|&s;elf &s;peak, <HI>Levit.</HI> 26.2, 16.19. <HI>Hagg.</HI> 1, 9. with &s;everal &s;uch texts.</P>
<P N="2">2. Things needfull and good, as peo|ple are embodyed, for the pre&s;erving of their civil State, God in puni&s;hment pulls them away for &s;infulne&s;&s;e again&s;t his Sabbaths: as order, government, good lawes, ju&s;t admini&s;trations a|mong&s;t men. Let ju&s;tice be removed (&s;ayes an ancient Writer) and what are Kingdoms and Common-Wealths, but
<PB N="98" REF="70"> great robbing places, where might overcomes right? Let government be gone, and multitudes of mi&s;eries break in, Nations of men are made as the fi&s;hes of the Sea, and as the creeping things that have no Ruler over them, ruines ru&s;h in upon them. Yet &s;uch are the &s;ad &s;equels of Gods &s;lighted &s;er|vice, and neglected Sabbaths, as may be ea&s;ily evidenced from that of the Prophet, <HI>Jer,</HI> 17.24, 25. <HI>Jer.</HI> 22.8, 9.</P>
<P N="2">2. Judgements privatively con&s;idered, which &s;inners again&s;t the Sabbath are like to &s;uffer, in removing of Spiritual good things;
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both In&s;trumental,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And Principal.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. Things In&s;trumental for much good, God removes from men not minding his Sabbaths and &s;ervice; I mean, the means of grace, the Mini&s;tery of the Go&s;pel. A mi&s;erable puni&s;hment. True; &s;uch as have an immediade hand in removing the Word of God preached from a people, are guilty of a very great &s;in. And wo, wo, wo, &s;ayes <HI>Luther</HI> to them that leave the Church without a Preaching Mini&s;tery, through which
<PB N="99" REF="70"> great Towns of people come to be like dark dens of wilde bea&s;ts. And a dread|ful doom it is on &s;uch as &s;uffer under a famine of the Word of God. Yet &s;uch a famine God inflicts for &s;inning again&s;t his ble&s;&s;ed Sabbath; See <HI>Amos</HI> 8. 5. &s;ome &s;aying, <HI>When will the Sabbath be gone, that we may &s;et forth wheat, &amp;c.</HI> ver&s;. 11. <HI>Behold, the dayes come, &s;aith the Lord, I will &s;end a famine in the land, not of bread, but of hearing the word of the Lord.</HI> 'Twas ill with <HI>I&s;rael</HI> when there was no Smith found in all the Land, but the <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> were forced to go to the <HI>Phili&s;tines</HI> every man to &s;harpen his Share and his Coulter, his Axe and his Mattock, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 13.19, 20. And will it not be ill with <HI>England,</HI> if no faithful di&s;pen&s;ers of the Go&s;pel &s;hould be found in the Land, but poor people &s;hould be put to go to Papi&s;ts, and other per&s;ons of corrupt opinions; thinking thereby to quicken and com|fort their dead and &s;ad hearts, &amp;c. The God of heaven hold off the &s;ight of &s;uch a di&s;mal day. We read <HI>Gen.</HI> 21.15, 16. of <HI>Hagar, when the bread and wa|ter in the bottle was &s;pent,</HI> and her &s;on ready to fami&s;h, <HI>&s;he went and &s;ate her
<PB N="100" REF="71"> down at a di&s;tance, &s;aying,</HI> O <HI>let me not &s;ee the death of my child! And &s;he looked toward him, and left up her voyce and wept.</HI> When Spiritual food &s;hall faile, will not a faithful Mini&s;ter &s;it down &s;orrowfully, &s;aying, O let me not &s;ee the death of my people? Yea, when holy Ordinances are gone, how will other Chri&s;tian Churches look over to <HI>England,</HI> and lament &s;aying, <HI>VVe have a &s;i&s;ter, and &s;he hath no brea&s;ts?</HI> Can. 8.8. The&s;e are the de&s;erved effects of our lamentable neg|lects of the Lords day: when men cea&s;e from Sabbaths, then God makes Sab|baths to cea&s;e, <HI>Ho&s;ea</HI> 2, 11. Men &s;in|fully forget Gods Sabbaths, and then God as a puni&s;hment cau&s;es Sabbaths to be forgotten, <HI>Lam.</HI> 2.6. The Lord <HI>hath violently taken away his Tabernacle, de&s;troyed the places of a&s;&s;embly, and cau&s;ed the Sabbaths to be forgotten in</HI> Zion.</P>
<P N="2">2. The principal of all precious things is hereby brought to depart, even God him&s;elf. When Gods Sabbaths, &s;ervice, and &s;ervants leave a Land, the Lord goes along with them. I read of <HI>Nazianzene,</HI> who being about to go from a place where he had Preached for &s;ome time, a good man comes cry|ing
<PB N="101" REF="71"> unto him. O <HI>Nazianzene,</HI> wilt thou go away, and carry the holy Trinity with thee? Father, Son, and holy Gho&s;t, all for&s;ake &s;uch as are Sabbath-for&s;aken: the Go&s;pel of God, and the God of the Go&s;pel goes together. In the departure of the Lords day, the Lord of the day departs.</P>
<P N="2">2 The po&s;itive puni&s;hments for Sab|bath-&s;ins are con&s;iderable,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both in their Diver&s;ity,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And in their Severity.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1 God does execute divers judge|ments upon the neglect of the Lords day; when God him&s;elf with his Sab|baths and &s;ervice for&s;ake a Land, he lets in lamentable calamities, and makes men &s;uffer &s;everal wayes. 2 <HI>Chron</HI> 15.5, 6, 7. For along &s;ea&s;on <HI>I&s;rael</HI> was without the true God, and without a teaching Prie&s;t, and without Law: <HI>And in tho&s;e times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabi|tants of the Countries. Nation was destroy|ed of Nation, and City of City, for God did vexe them with all adver&s;ity.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Gaulter. <HI>in Act.</HI> 13. <HI>Homil.</HI> 88.</NOTE> A learned Expo&s;itor thus &s;peaks&punc; In our dayes even among Chri&s;tians, the Sab|bath
<PB N="102" REF="72"> is &s;infully broken, that ble&s;&s;ed day abu&s;ed which &s;hould be wholly con&s;e|crated to God, and do we yet marvel what is the cau&s;e of our calamities? I have heard that in <HI>Germany,</HI> under their woful Wars, there was at a time a very great convention &s;itting to con&s;ult what &s;hould be the cau&s;e of their cala|mities, and the Major part pre&s;&s;ed the not trimming of their Churches and adorning them with Images; not con|&s;idering how carele&s;&s;e they were of the Lords day, and the due wor&s;hip of God. The error with us is &s;lighting of all publike places, painful Preachings, pure Admini&s;trations, Gods holy In&s;titutions of times and things; yet we are not aware that the&s;e things work our wo. Let's look into <HI>Levit.</HI> 26.2. <HI>Ye &s;hall keep my, Sabbaths and reverence my Sanctuary:</HI> What if not? <HI>I will make your Sabbaths to cea&s;e, and bring your &s;anctuaries into de&s;olation, and I will not &s;mell the &s;avour of your &s;weet odours:</HI> ver&s;. 31. And is that all? <HI>I will &s;et my face again&s;t you, they that hate you &s;hall reign over you, I will &s;end wilde bea&s;ts among you, and I will bring a &s;word upon you:</HI> and &s;everal other &s;ad mi&s;eries we meet in the Chap|ter.
<PB N="103" REF="72"> The like Lamentations. 2. <HI>The Lord hath violently taken away his Ta|bernacle, cau&s;ed his Sabbaths to be for|gotten in</HI> Zion, <HI>and hath de&s;pi&s;ed</HI> (or &s;uffered to be de&s;pi&s;ed) <HI>in the indig|nation of his anger the</HI> KING <HI>and the</HI> PRIEST: contempt to be ca&s;t upon all that are appointed to rule and govern both in Church and State, A great &s;in, a grievous puni&s;hment. and what fur|ther? <HI>The wall of the Daughter of</HI> Zion <HI>is fallen, her gates are &s;unk her bars are broaken, the LAW is no more,</HI> ver&s;. 7, 8, 9. Alas! O the breaches God makes, and blood&s;heds God brings for breaking his Sabbaths! The Chri&s;tian world is filled with wars when the Lords day growes dimme; <HI>When the Sun is dark|ned, the Moon is turned into blood,</HI> Joel 2.13.</P>
<P N="2">2. God does execute &s;evere judge|ments for the Non-&s;anctifying of his Sabbaths,
<LIST>
<ITEM>In general upon people,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And al&s;o on particular per&s;ons:</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><HI>Jer.</HI> 17.27. <HI>If you will not hearken to me, to hallow the Sabbath day, then will I kindle a fire in the gates of</HI> Jeru&s;alem, <HI>and it &s;hall devour the Palaces thereof, and it
<PB N="104" REF="73"> &s;hall not be quenched.</HI> Fire it holds forth the fiercene&s;s of anger, evidenced in its mo&s;t fearful effects: The Lord by the mouth of the Prophet threatens fire, fire,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Fire in the Palaces, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fire in the Gates.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Palaces;] Places of honour, the beauty and ornaments of a City: upon the&s;e &s;hall be fire. Gates;] Places of power, where the &s;trength of a City is laid, and where ju&s;tice is done, here al&s;o fire. Fire in the Palaces,] No keeping in: and al&s;o Fire in the Gates,] No running out. A devouring fire round about, that all mu&s;t feel, and none can quench; and all this comes for not keeping the Sabbath holy. See how <HI>Nehemiah</HI> contends with tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors again&s;t this holy time of the Sabbath, <HI>What evil is this that ye do, and profane the Sabbath day? did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon them, and upon this City? yet ye bring more wrath upon</HI> I&s;rael <HI>by profaning the Sabbath.</HI> This &s;in heightens the wrath of God, and cau&s;es great fires, <HI>Nehem.</HI> 13.17, 18. Not onely Nations, but Particular per&s;ons have al&s;o been &s;everely puni&s;h|ed
<PB N="105" REF="73"> upon the &s;ame account, as ther have been &s;ad in&s;tances in &s;everal ages; men made as monuments of Gods dreadful anger in divers places.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tacit.</HI> Hi|&s;tor. lib <HI>5. Jo&s;ephus</HI> Antiq. lib. <HI>12</HI> cap. <HI>13.</HI> &amp; lib. <HI>16.</HI> cap. <HI>11.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Pompey</HI> that great Souldier, is reported &s;orely to &s;uffer for defiling of Gods Sabbath and Sanctuary. 'Tis written of <HI>Herod</HI> the King, who appointing &s;ome to pull up the Sepulchres of Gods Saints, and to &s;earch for &s;uppo&s;ed trea&s;ures there|in, God made fire to ri&s;e out of the earth, whereby &s;uch as &s;earched were devoured.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccle&s;ia&s;t. Hi&s;tor. <HI>12.</HI> centur. <HI>Magdeb.</HI> cap. <HI>6.</HI></NOTE> Hi&s;tories are found full of examples of Gods fearful judgements upon &s;uch, who upon &s;uppo&s;als of earth|ly plea&s;ure, and profit, have pre&s;umed to pull down the Sahbath of his Son, in the &s;olemn &s;ervice thereof.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Joh. Fincel, <HI>lib.</HI> 3. <HI>de mirac.</HI></NOTE> Many make mention of that mi&s;erable Wo|man, who upon the Lords day dre&s;&s;ing her flax, fire flamed out thereof, and the third Sabbath it &s;o burned in the hou&s;e that her children and &s;elf was con&s;umed therewith.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Di&s;cipul</HI> de de tempore Serm. <HI>117.</HI></NOTE></P>
<P>Another carrying in his Corn upon the Lords day, fire kindled in his Barn, and burnt it to the ground: I have read of many &s;uch &s;ad examples. Some within doors their brains beat out, o|thers
<PB N="106" REF="74"> abroad their bodies burnt with Lightning, and beat down dead with claps of Thunder, as &s;ome recite.</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> We &s;ee no &s;uch puni&s;hments in our pre&s;ent times, upon per&s;ons pro|faning the Sabbath.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> The Lord now leaves men un|to that which is wor&s;e then puni&s;hment; to wit &s;in,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both in the time of the Sabbath,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And out of Sabbath-time.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>O the &s;ad &s;ins of &s;everal, even upon the Sabbath day! Such &s;ins &s;et <HI>Mu&s;|culus</HI> upon the fourth Commandement to make a &s;ad moane; and <HI>Bucer</HI> upon the 92. <HI>P&s;alme,</HI> does bitterly bewaile &s;uch &s;ins. O that we had &s;ome &s;o &s;eriou&s;ly mourning! for we have now many mi&s;erably &s;o &s;inning: yea, and al&s;o at other times: Men are in &s;in&punc; when they are out of the Sabbath: God leaves men to week dayes tran&s;|gre&s;&s;ions as a puni&s;hment of Sabbath day omi&s;&s;ions. The Lord lets men on the week dayes do the evil they &s;hould not, becau&s;e on the Sabbath day they did not the good they &s;hould. Yea, let's &s;adly con&s;ider our abomina|ble &s;ins,
<LIST>
<PB N="107" REF="74">
<ITEM>Both in judgment,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And in practice.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The &s;inking of Sabbaths, is the ri&s;ing of all errors. Hence we note Armi|nian, Socinian, Pelagian opinions pub|li&s;hed almo&s;t in every place. With our &s;ins again&s;t the day of Chri&s;t we have &s;inful errors again&s;t the death of Chri&s;t, again&s;t the whole Doctrine of Chri&s;t, Dignity of Chri&s;t, Deity of Chri&s;t. I have found &s;ome affirming, that 'twas a piece of the Divels policy, to hinder the Sabbath from being called (the Lords day,) that he might the more keep men from knowing, and imbracing the Lord of truth, and the truth of the Lord. I dare &s;ay, 'tis Satans de&s;ign, that he might make men vent and ad|vance Venomous opinions again&s;t the pure and precious truths of Chri&s;t, he cau&s;es them to become carele&s;&s;e in keep|ing the Lords day. 'Twas ob&s;erved among the <HI>Jewes,</HI> that when they grew remi&s;&s;e concerning the Sabbath, they became corrupt in their Tenents touching the works of God in the Crea|tion: And it may be ob&s;erved among Chri&s;tians, that &s;ince men have fallen to &s;oul neglects of the Lords day, they
<PB N="108" REF="75"> have about the works of Chri&s;t redemp|tion, wax'd wilde in their imaginations; yea, errors of all &s;orts hath God &s;uffer|ed, as filthy froggs to infect our <HI>Eng|li&s;h</HI> air.</P>
<P N="2">2. Sinful and prodigious practices are al&s;o plentiful in every place. As the ob&s;ervation of the Sabbath is that which brings on all the duties of godli|ne&s;&s;e, cea&s;e that, and all &s;inks: &s;o the violation of the Sabbath is the inlet of al loo&s;ene&s;&s;e, a door to all the works of darkne&s;&s;e; what wickedne&s;&s;e will not ri&s;e up where the Lords day is down? As in the Decalogue the command for the Sabbath is &s;et in the middle, being the band of the whole, and that which hath an influence into all: thus in the Catalogue of <HI>Jeru&s;alems</HI> &s;ins, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 22. the &s;in again&s;t the Sabbath is &s;et in the mid&s;t among&s;t them, as being the main, and that through which all the re&s;t move. Read ver&s;. 7, 8, 9, 10. <HI>In thee have they &s;et light by father and mother, in thee have they dealt by oppre&s;&s;ion, in thee have they vexed the father le&s;&s;e and the widow. Thou ha&s;t de&s;pi&s;ed my holy things, and ha&s;t profaned my Sabbath; In thee are men that carry tales to &s;hed blood, in thee
<PB N="109" REF="75"> they commit lewdne&s;&s;e, thou ha&s;t greedily gained by extortion, and ha&s;t forgotten me, &s;aith the Lord God.</HI> Now for the Lord in a Land to &s;uffer &s;uch &s;ins, is wor&s;e then if he &s;hould in an ordinary way puni&s;h, puni&s;hment not being &s;o great an evil as &s;in: Sin is the common cau&s;e of puni&s;hment. In evil things the cau&s;e is more corrupt then the effect; puni&s;hment is the work of God, &s;in is the proper work of the Divel, puni&s;hment is oppo&s;ite to the peace and quiet of the creature, &s;in 'tis repugnant to the very being of man, yea, of God him&s;elf: 'Tis &s;in alone which formally and cau&s;ally &s;eparates a &s;oul from God the chiefe&s;t good, and therefore is the greate&s;t evil: 'Tis &s;ins that are Bars in Heaven-gates, that there is no entering in; and Bonds in Hell flames, that there's no getting out. If I (&s;ayes <HI>An&s;elme</HI>) were in hell without &s;in, I &s;hould not be kept in, and were I in heaven with &s;in, I &s;hould &s;oon be turn|ed out. This (&s;ayes <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tome</HI>) do I think, and this I will ever Preach, that 'tis wor&s;e by &s;in to offend Chri&s;t, then to be tormented in hell-fire for ever, May not we then well think, that &s;in is
<PB N="110" REF="76"> a &s;orer evil then any puni&s;hment po&s;&s;i|ble? And therefore, though God does not puni&s;h per&s;ons for polluting his Sabbath: yet in that he leaves them upon this unto other &s;ins, their ca&s;e is a thou&s;and fold wor&s;e. Yet of &s;uch too many are manife&s;t, men who on the Sabbath do not regard Gods a&s;&s;i&s;ting grace to help them in good: God on the week dayes withdraws his re&s;trein|ing grace that might keep them from evil, even &s;in the wor&s;t of evils.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="13" TYPE="section">
<P N="2">2. Though God does not in vi&s;ible wayes puni&s;h &s;uch men, yet he does in various wayes whereof they are not aware, viz.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Negative, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Po&s;itive.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. 'Tis a puni&s;hment that God does not puni&s;h them, <HI>Ho&s;ea</HI> 4.14. <HI>I will not puni&s;h your Daughters when they commit whoredome,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Infignis e&s;t poena, &amp; vindicta impietatis connivere Deum &amp; indulgere peccantibus <HI>Philo.</HI> lib. de confu&s;. linguarum.</NOTE> <HI>&amp;c.</HI> When God does not puni&s;h per&s;ons for polluting and neg|lecting his Sabbath, this is a &s;ore puni&s;h|ment: Yea, 'tis a notable puni&s;h|ment (&s;ayes a learned Writer) and a dreadful revenge, when God &s;eems to indulge, and as it were over&s;ee &s;inful men. As God &s;hewes love in correct|ing,
<PB N="111" REF="76"> &s;o he &s;hewes wrath when he does not correct. 'Twas mercy to me, may &s;ome man &s;ay, that I was cha&s;ti&s;ed. <HI>'Twas good for me</HI> (&s;ayes <HI>David) that I was afflicted.</HI> So every wicked one &s;hall one day &s;ay, 'twas ill for me I was not afflicted, 'twas a judgement to me God did not correct me. The le&s;&s;e &s;mart on earth, the more pain in hell: 'tis a ter|rible puni&s;hment upon &s;ome Sabbath-breakers, to break the Sabbath, and yet to pa&s;&s;e unpuni&s;hed.</P>
<P N="2">2. God &s;ends in &s;ad Judgements for this &s;in which men do not &s;ee; as a Judge he &s;mites them with blindne&s;&s;e of mind, and hardne&s;&s;e of heart; for this God threatens, <HI>Levit.</HI> 26. <HI>to make the earth as bra&s;&s;e, and heavens as Iron:</HI> Iron-hearts are wor&s;e then Iron-heavens.</P>
<P>If &s;ometimes on the Lords day to the Congregatio~ men of hard hearts come, yet that word which is a mercy to &s;ome, is a judgement to them:<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Quum &s;anctae ex|hortationis verba alia|mens &s;u&s;ci|pit, alia reci|pere recu|&s;at, &s;uper unam civi|tatem pluit Dominus, &amp; non &s;uper aliam. <HI>Grego.</HI> in Ezek. Hom. <HI>10.</HI></NOTE> 'tis Gods ex|pre&s;&s;ion in the Prophet, <HI>That he cau&s;ed it to rain upon one City, and not upon a|nother,</HI> (that is, &s;ayes an ancient Writer) the &s;ame words of exhortation which God as a loving Father cau&s;es &s;ome to receive, as an angry Judge he makes
<PB N="112" REF="77"> others to reject. Yea, God for &s;innes again&s;t his Sabbath, gives men up to follow their own fancies, and eagerly to pur&s;ue their own &s;educements, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 20.24, 25. <HI>Becau&s;e they de&s;pi&s;ed my &s;ta|tutes, and polluted my Sabbaths, I gave them &s;tatutes that were not good, and I pol|luted them in their own gifts, &amp;c.</HI> Under &s;uch puni&s;hments poor people peri&s;h, and perceive it not. We &s;ee mens Sab|bath-&s;ins again&s;t God, and Gods judg|ments are upon men for tho&s;e &s;ins, though we &s;ee them not.</P>
<P N="3">3. Though God does not appear pre&s;ently to puni&s;h &s;uch men, yet he will ere long.</P>
<P>God is fitted him&s;elf to be &s;ure, and</P>
<P>God has fixed his day which is neer.</P>
<P N="1">1. God him&s;elf is fitted to inflict pu|ni&s;hment upon &s;uch as defile his holy day: for as he is the <HI>Lord of the Sab|bath,</HI> &s;o he is <HI>the Lord of ho&s;ts.</HI> The &s;ame that in the Hebrew term is the Lord of the ho&s;ts, in the Greek Septu|gint, <HI>is the Lord of the Sabbath;</HI> and &s;o does the New Te&s;tament expre&s;&s;e it. <HI>Except the Lord of ho&s;ts</HI> (&s;ayes the Pro|phet) <HI>had left us a remnant, we had been like</HI> Sodom. <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 1.9. <HI>Except the
<PB N="113" REF="77"> Lord of the Sabbath,</HI> &s;ayes the Apo&s;tle, <HI>Rom.</HI> 9.27. repeating the words of the Prophet. It appears he that is the Lord of this day, hath many ho&s;ts at his command, wherewith he is ready to give Battel to all the breakers of his ble&s;&s;ed Sabbath.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jo&s;ephus</HI> lib. <HI>5.</HI> Ant. Juda<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">car: cap. <HI>6.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Jo&s;ephus</HI> &s;peaking of the Battel, <HI>Judg.</HI> 5. wherein God fought again&s;t <HI>Si&s;era,</HI> with an ho&s;t of Men, an ho&s;t of Stars, an ho&s;t of Stormes, an ho&s;t of Rain, Haile, and Winds; for, &s;ayes he, there fell &s;uch a &s;udden and terrible tempe&s;t beating full in the faces of the <HI>Canaanites,</HI> as took away their &s;ight, and benummed their hands, that they could not hold their &s;hields, not fling their darts; but beat &s;o on the backs of the <HI>I&s;raelites,</HI> as em|boldened them the more. God indeed does not immediately make war with men that mi&s;u&s;e his Sabbath, but he hath his forces ready to fight them, his Armies are mu&s;tered and ready to march: all his weapons of war are pre|pared, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 7.12, 13.</P>
<P N="2">2. God hath &s;uch dayes drawing neer when he will certainly proceed again&s;t Sabbath-&s;inners, and pur&s;ue them to death;
<LIST>
<PB N="114" REF="78">
<ITEM>As a day of National Judgment,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And a day of general Judgement.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Indeed a di&s;mal day of calamity may our Land look for, wherein the pollu|ters of the Lords day &s;hall be drawn out to &s;uffer Gods &s;evere vengence. There be &s;ome offenders and Malefactors, which the Magi&s;trate does not immedi|ately puni&s;h, but they are bound over to the next A&s;&s;izes. Though Sabbath-breakers by Gods immediate blowes be not beaten down, yet they be bound over to &s;uch an A&s;&s;izes as we never yet &s;aw in <HI>England.</HI> God may not afore|hand inflict exemplary puni&s;hments up|on particular tran&s;gre&s;&s;ing per&s;ons, be|cau&s;e he means to come with common calamities upon the whole body of a Nation, when <HI>tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors &s;hall be de&s;troyed together. P&s;al.</HI> 37.38. if a National repentance prevents not. Such a day of National di&s;tre&s;&s;e drawes neer, wherein Sabbath-breakers with other &s;orts of &s;inners &s;hall a&s;&s;uredly &s;uffer: The Lord will either lay the Land in blood, or in water. If waters of &s;orrows do not flow from men, fires of fury will flame from God, and then wo to &s;uch as &s;inned down the day of the Sabbath.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="115" REF="78">2. The great day of Gods general Judgement is now apace approaching, when &s;uch as &s;in again&s;t Gods &s;acred Sabbath,
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Lord will di&s;own them, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Lord will condemn them.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Di&s;own them,] &s;o that they who regarded not the Lords day, &s;hall not be regarded in the day of the Lord, nor of the Lord in his day.</P>
<P>Condemn them,] down to endure pains perpetual, and torments eternal; O how &s;weet would one Sabbath of re&s;t be from Hell-torments in ten thou&s;and years! But they who would not keep the Lords day of re&s;t, &s;hall never have a day of re&s;t to keep. The day when Sabbath-&s;lighters &s;hall be certainly ad|judged &s;o to &s;uffer, now draws on. God in &s;ome former ages might more exempla|rily puni&s;h Sabbath-abu&s;ers, becau&s;e then this Judgment-day was at a further di&s;tance, this day now drawing nearer, the Lord may more let men alone, and they may e&s;cape pre&s;ent penalties. But they that neglect the Lords day &s;hall not e&s;cape the dreadful day of the Lord. We may ob&s;erve a double day that men for the mo&s;t part mind not:
<LIST>
<PB N="116" REF="79">
<ITEM>The pre&s;ent day of the Lords Sab|bath, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The approaching day of the la&s;t Judg|ment.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Men live as if there were no Sabbath day to be religiou&s;ly imployed in: and as if there were no Judgement-day to be diligently prepared for. I eat, I drink, I play,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Bernard</HI> de interna Do|mo. cap. <HI>33.</HI></NOTE> (&s;ayes <HI>Bernard</HI>) as if I were gone beyond the day of Judgement. Thus may many a man &s;ay, I eat, I &s;port, I &s;leep, I leap, and laugh, as if I had pa&s;&s;ed over, and got above Gods ble&s;|&s;ed day. Men are as if they were now exempted from attendance on the Lords day; and as if they &s;hould hereafter be excu&s;ed from appearance at the day of the Lord. But the day drawes neer, when all men mu&s;t appear before the Judgement-&s;eat of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and an&s;wer for non-attending upon his holy day.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Hieron.</HI> Epi&s;t. de &s;cient. legis. Tom. <HI>4.</HI></NOTE> Oh what &s;hall we do, &s;ayes <HI>Jerom,</HI> in that day, when the Lord &s;hall come with Trumphet &s;ounding, fire flaming, &s;inners fainting, &s;tars falling, mountains melting, poor creatures cry|ing to graves to hold them, and hills to hide them? Let none that abu&s;e the Lords day, &s;uppo&s;e this day of the Lord
<PB N="117" REF="79"> to be far off; for, <HI>Be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">old,</HI> &s;ayes the Apo&s;tle, <HI>The Lord comes with ten thou|&s;ands of his holy ones, to execute judgment, &amp;c.</HI> Jude 14, 15. <HI>The comming of the Lord draws nigh,</HI> Jam. 5 8. <HI>T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Lord is at hand,</HI> Phil. 4.5. Heare this all ye who with the Lords good day, put off the evil day of the Lord.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, though the Lord does not evi|dently puni&s;h all &s;uch men, yet he hath openly of late laid hold upon &s;ome. Yea, herein the Lord hath &s;poken &s;o loud from heaven again&s;t Sabbath-&s;inners, that I cannot be &s;ilent. We hereabout have had in a &s;hort time ter|rible tokens of Gods &s;evere vengeance upon men not minding the &s;ervice of his day. Among our &s;elves a &s;ad example, a Town&s;man going into the Pari&s;h, and gathering Cherries on the Lords day, fell from the tree, and in the fall was &s;o battered and brui&s;ed, that he never &s;pake more, but lay groaning in his blood untill the next day, and then he dyed. Another man not far off, this Cherry-time fell from a Cherry-tree, and lay in dreadful dolour all the week, and the very next Lords day dyed. A grown youth upon the Lords day, not
<PB N="118" REF="80"> long ago, in a Neighbour-Town &s;cram|bling with others for Pears, thrown out of &s;ome pockets in the Church-yard, broke his main thigh-bone, and the bone of his leg on the &s;ame &s;ide, in &s;uch a mi&s;erable manner, as a precious man who &s;et tho&s;e bones, a&s;&s;ured me though he had &s;een very many; yet he never &s;aw the like. Thus much may evidence, that though now the Lord lets alone the mo&s;t Sabbath-&s;lighting-men, yet he does evident execution on &s;ome:
<LIST>
<ITEM>To inform men of him&s;elf, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>To reform men in them&s;elves.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. By this God brings out unto men more of the knowledge of him&s;elf, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 9.16. <HI>The Lord is known by the judge|ment he executeth, &amp;c.</HI> God executing judgement upon &s;uch as pollute his holy day, is known to be a holy God. Some &s;uch the Lord lets alone, that his patience may be &s;een, and &s;ome he pro|ceeds again&s;t, that his ju&s;tice may be known.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> de civit Dei. cap. <HI>8.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> is excellent in this: God now puni&s;hes &s;ome &s;inners, that the Attribute of his pre&s;ent ju&s;tice may be ob&s;erved: but God he re&s;erves o|thers, that the Doctrine of his future Judgement may be believed. If God
<PB N="119" REF="80"> &s;hould puni&s;h none, he would not be known to be ju&s;t: If God &s;hould for pre&s;ent puni&s;h all, the need of a Judge|ment day to come might be que&s;tio|ned.</P>
<P N="2">2. By this God brings on more men to amendment of life: at lea&s;t 'tis the Lords end in executing judgement upon &s;ome Law-breakers, to &s;top others in the breaking of his Law: when God bodily beats any &s;inner down, his aime is, to &s;trike thereby upon the hearts
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of all &s;orts of &s;inners, but</ITEM>
<ITEM>E&s;pecially upon &s;inners of that &s;ort.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>God in doing vi&s;ible and terrible execution upon &s;ome Sabbath-breakers hereabouts, expects that all who break his ble&s;&s;ed Sabbath,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Interim ple|ctuntur qui|dam, quo cae+teri corri|gantur, &amp;c. <HI>Cypr.</HI> de lap&s;is, Serm.</NOTE> &s;hould heare and fear, repent and amend. <HI>Cyprian</HI> doth &s;weetly pre&s;&s;e the recovery of &s;ome re|lap&s;ed Chri&s;tians, from the dreadful examples of Gods judgements upon &s;ome Apo&s;tates. And this u&s;e our Savi|our makes of tho&s;e eighteen, who&s;e brains were beaten out by the fall of the Tower of <HI>Siloam,</HI> to provoke others unto &s;peedy repentance, <HI>Luk.</HI> 13.4, 5. <HI>Except, &amp;c.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Al&s;ted: <HI>Chronol.</HI></NOTE> We read of one <HI>Waldus</HI> in <HI>France,</HI> who &s;eeing a man &s;uddenly
<PB N="120" REF="81"> to fall down dead, it &s;o &s;truck upon his heart, that he went home, reformed his family, admoni&s;hed his friends to re|pent, and became famous, being the founder of the <HI>Walden&s;es.</HI> O that the hand of the great God would now reach all your hearts, who have &s;een and heard of what God hath in ju&s;tice done in the fearful falls of &s;ome, who defiled his Sabbath! For <HI>except ye re|pent,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Pereunt im|pii, non ut pereant, &s;ed ut pereundo alios profici|ant. <HI>Seneca.</HI></NOTE> <HI>ye &s;hall all likewi&s;e peri&s;h.</HI> O repent, repent!</P>
<Q><L>That the Lord may have the prai&s;e of his ju&s;tice,</L>
<L>And that you may have the profit of his judgements.</L></Q>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="14" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The exhortation followes.</HEAD>
<P>And in pro&s;ecuting this pre&s;ent u&s;e, attend
<Q><L>Both the Matters men are to be ex|horted to,</L>
<L>And the Motives men are to be ex|horted by.</L></Q></P>
<P>The mo&s;t material things to which I would incite concerning the Chri&s;tian Sabbath be,
<LIST>
<ITEM>To A&s;&s;ent in judgement, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>To A&s;&s;i&s;t in practice.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Let all a&s;&s;ent that this Sabbath ought
<PB N="121" REF="81"> to be ob&s;erved, and let each a&s;&s;i&s;t in the ob&s;ervation of the Sabbath; and let's &s;eriou&s;ly &s;ee that our Sabbath-a&s;&s;ent be
<LIST>
<ITEM>Full without doubting in it, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Firme without &s;werving from it.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>With &s;ome little varying, let me pre&s;&s;e in the words of the Apo&s;tle, 2 <HI>The&s;&s;.</HI> 2.1, 2, 3. <HI>Now we be&s;eech you, brethren, by the comming of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not &s;oon &s;haken in mind, neither by &s;pirit, nor by word, nor by letter;</HI> as if the Lords day &s;hould not be at hand, and ever in your hearts: <HI>Let no man deceive you by any means,</HI> for that day is, and mu&s;t be, and will be owned, <HI>except there come a</HI> &s;ad and fearful <HI>fal|ling away,</HI> through the &s;ubtilties of that man of &s;in. O let us take and keep &s;uch a conjunction upon our con&s;cien|ces concerning this day and duty, as may be &s;trong and &s;table. Indeed to be well &s;ettled in the point of the Sab|bath, we have exceeding good cau&s;e, con&s;idering we have
<LIST>
<ITEM>Not onely the help of Nature,</ITEM>
<ITEM>But al&s;o the help of Scripture.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>There be &s;ome le&s;&s;ons the light of nature leads to, viz.</P>
<LIST>
<PB N="122" REF="82">
<ITEM>That there is a God,</ITEM>
<ITEM>That this God mu&s;t be wor&s;hipped,</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>That there mu&s;t be a time &s;et to wor|&s;hip him in, Than 'tis meet for God to appoint his own way and time of wor|&s;hip.</P>
<P>'Tis true, to determine the &s;eventh part of time for the wor&s;hip of God, is above the dictate of Nature; hence the Heathen in deri&s;ion were wont to call a <HI>Jew</HI> [the &s;eventh man] becau&s;e he ob&s;erved a &s;eventh day wherein to wor|&s;hip God. We have not onely princi|ples of nature, but expre&s;&s;ions of Scrip|ture: nor onely con&s;equentiall deducti|ons, but al&s;o po&s;itive a&s;&s;ertions to &s;ettle our beliefe concerning a holy Sabbath; yea, we have
<LIST>
<ITEM>Not onely the help of the Law,</ITEM>
<ITEM>But al&s;o the help of the Go&s;pel.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The Go&s;pel guides into mo&s;t glori|ous truths, viz.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>That there is a Chri&s;t,</ITEM>
<ITEM>That this Chri&s;t is God:</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>That therefore he mu&s;t have Divine wor&s;hip: That for his wor&s;hip he mu&s;t have a &s;et &s;eventh day, as God had.</P>
<P>That every fir&s;t day in the week is the day &s;et, for the &s;olemn wor&s;hip of Chri&s;t: yea help,
<LIST>
<PB N="123" REF="82">
<ITEM>Not onely of the Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t,</ITEM>
<ITEM>But al&s;o of all the Churches of Chri&s;t,
<LIST>
<ITEM>In ages pa&s;t,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And pre&s;ent.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>They all with an harmonious con&s;ent &s;ubcribe this truth, and hand over to us this te&s;timony,
<LIST>
<ITEM>That the Lords day,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Is the Lords due.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Yea, Not onely the Churches of Chri&s;t without us,</P>
<P>But al&s;o the Spirit of Chri&s;t within us helps.</P>
<P>The Spirit of Chri&s;t, though he &s;a|vingly converts but few; yet he does forcibly convince the mo&s;t: mo&s;t men among&s;t us are hereby convinced of this fundamental in Religion, viz. That the Lords day ought to be ob&s;erved.</P>
<P>Let us not then dimme the light, nor drown the voyce within us, that cryes, Sabbath, Sabbath.</P>
<P>Let us not &s;uffer our minds to be cor|rupted with any poy&s;onous opinions in this point. But Brethren, &s;tand fa&s;t, and hold the in&s;titutions of God, accor|ding as you have been taught. Silence all doubts about, and di&s;putes again&s;t the Lords day; and &s;tick clo&s;e to that
<PB N="124" REF="83"> truth herein, which you have profe&s;&s;ed and imbraced. O let not any of you let in the lea&s;t thought ever to live Sab|bath-free; indeed 'tis a day all men mu&s;t alway be free for, and free in; but not any ever freed from.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bulling: <HI>in Rom</HI> 4 <HI>et</HI> 5.</NOTE> 'Twas a good ob&s;ervation of a learned Wri|ter: The Sabbath as it came in with the fir&s;t man, &s;o it mo&s;t not go out but with the la&s;t man. As it was from the beginning of the World, &s;o it mu&s;t continue till the worlds end. And therefore for the Lords &s;ake, and your own &s;ouls &s;ake, &s;uffer none to &s;educe you, as to conceive a Sabbath-cea&s;e: but keep your Intellectuals &s;ound in Sabbath-Tenents: and while you live, la|bour to keep pure your Sabbathp-rin|ciples. And as for practices,</P>
<P N="2">2. Let all and every one a&s;&s;i&s;t unto the &s;ervice of the Sabbath day:
<LIST>
<ITEM>Suitable to the parts of the &s;ervice, &amp;</ITEM>
<ITEM>Suitable to their places for the &s;ervice.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Concerning the &s;ervice of the Lords day it &s;elf ob&s;erve
<LIST>
<ITEM>The &s;pring of it, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;pread of it.</ITEM>
<ITEM>What it mu&s;t proceed from, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>What it mu&s;t extend unto.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1"><PB N="125" REF="83">1. Sabbath-&s;ervice mu&s;t proceed from a &s;pring of love: The &s;ervice of our Chri&s;tian Sabbath-love,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Amor meus pondus me|um; eo feror, quocunque feror. <HI>Aug.</HI></NOTE>
<LIST>
<ITEM>'Twill facilitate it, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>'Twill perpetuate it.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Love it will lead out and carry through the wole bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of this ble&s;|&s;ed day with ea&s;e to the end. Love is the be&s;t Load-&s;tone through all the Lords day-duties. This is one of the dayes of the Lords appearing, which every Chri&s;tian is bound to love, 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4.8. And who ever loves the day, will not leave the duty,</P>
<P N="2">2. The &s;ervice of the Sabbath is of &s;uch extent, that there are divers duties duly to be performed,</P>
<P>Both &s;ecretly in our Habitations,</P>
<P>And openly in the Congregation.</P>
<P>In our private dwellings;] Religi|ous duties upon the Lords day are re|quired of every one, as Prayer, Medi|tation, and holy Conference:</P>
<P>Prayer, whereby we &s;peak to God.</P>
<P>Meditation, whereby we &s;peak to our &s;elves.</P>
<P>And good Conference, whereby we &s;peak one unto another.</P>
<P>Prayer;] The Sabbath is indeed a
<PB N="126" REF="84"> day God hath &s;anctified, yet 'tis not &s;anctified as to us, nor we to it without prayer. Our Sabbath in heaven &s;hall all be imployed in pray&s;ings of God, but prayer to God mu&s;t have a prime part of every Sabbath we ob&s;erve on earth. Are there Sbbbath duties to be performed? we mu&s;t pray, [that God would make us able.] Are there Sab|bath mercies to be received? we mu&s;t pray, [that God would count us wor|thy.]</P>
<P>Meditation;] The Sabbath is the day for the bodies re&s;t from earthly affairs, and therefore the mind is then mo&s;t meet to be about the be&s;t bu&s;ine&s;&s;e.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Theophil. <HI>in Marc.</HI> 1. <HI>et</HI> 21.</NOTE> One well notes that the Lord commands re&s;t upon the Sabbath, that men might read the Word, and meditate upon the Word they read. The Word and the Works of God are indeed every day to be meditated on, but mo&s;t upon the Lords day. <HI>Augu&s;tine</HI> gives this rea&s;on why God was &s;ix &s;everal dayes in the works of the World, to wit, that upon the &s;eventh day man might the more orderly think upon tho&s;e Works of God.</P>
<P>Conference;] The Sabbath is the
<PB N="127" REF="84"> day when all in a family have more li|berty to be together, then on any other day. On the week dayes per&s;ons in a hou&s;e are as Bees in a Hive, that go forth &s;everal wayes to work; but on the Lords day their common work a|broad cea&s;es: &s;o that they may the better &s;et them&s;elyes to a&s;&s;i&s;t each other in &s;oul concernments. <HI>Exhorting one another while it is called to day,</HI> Heb. 3.13.</P>
<P>In our publick meetings;] The reli|gious duties which upon the Lords day are required, be
<LIST>
<ITEM>Either more ordinary,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or le&s;&s;e ordinary.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Ordinary and con&s;tant] duties for the exerci&s;e of all, As
<LIST>
<ITEM>Prayer to God,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hearing the Word, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Singing of P&s;almes.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Prayer;] Upon the Lords day, though one be made the Mouth, yet 'tis meete there &s;hould be as many praying hearts, as pre&s;ent bodies. Prayer was a princi|pal thing; the practice of which, the Primitive Chri&s;tians continued, in their congregated a&s;&s;emblies, <HI>Act.</HI> 2.42. <HI>Au&s;tine</HI> &s;adly complains of &s;ome in his
<PB N="128" REF="85"> time,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> de tempore Serm. <HI>251.</HI></NOTE> who when they &s;hould be entring in the Church doors, they are tarrying in the Church-yard: playing without, when they &s;hould be praying within: idly talking of the world, when they &s;hould be &s;eriou&s;ly &s;eeking the Lord, &amp;c. O that this abu&s;e had dyed in his dayes! but the Lord knows, it lives for us to lament.</P>
<P>Hearing;] Upon the Lords day a great duty is diligent attention to Gods word read and preached. They (&s;ayes a reverend Writer) who rightly u&s;e the Sabbath day,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gualt. <HI>in Marc.</HI> 3. <HI>Hom.</HI> 23.</NOTE> they go to the publick a&s;&s;emblies to hear the holy word of God. And herein what was the practice of Gods people in the time of the Apo&s;tles, is plain, <HI>Act.</HI> 13.14, 15, 16, 42, 44. <HI>Act.</HI> 15.21. <HI>Act.</HI> 20.7. &amp;c. And <HI>Ju&s;tine Martyr</HI> who dyed for the cau&s;e of Chri&s;t, in the year of our Lord 170. in his &s;econd Apologie for Chri|&s;tians, reports the people of God to ga|ther into one place perpetually on the Lords day, to hear the Scriptures read, and to attend exhortations there|upon.</P>
<P>Singing;] Upon the Lords day it being the day of Saints &s;weete&s;t de|light,
<PB N="129" REF="85"> holy P&s;almes are &s;ea&s;onable to be &s;ung. And in ancient times there were &s;ome P&s;almes penned and purpo&s;e|ly appointed for the Sabbath day&punc; as is expre&s;&s;ed in the Preface of <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 92. <HI>Pliny</HI> in his letter to <HI>Trajan</HI> tells how in tho&s;e times the Chri&s;tians upon their &s;et dayes of &s;olemn wor&s;hip u&s;ed early in the morning &s;weetly to &s;ing together unto the prai&s;e of God.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Augu&s;t. <HI>lib.</HI> 9. <HI>confe&s;&s;io. cap.</HI> 6.</NOTE> <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> in this publike exerci&s;e, &s;ayes he had often wept for joy, joy, &amp;c. Some &s;eek to cut off and ca&s;t this comfortable &s;ervice quite out of doors: contrary to the example of Chri&s;t, <HI>Matth.</HI> 26.30. the practice of the Apo&s;tles, <HI>Act.</HI> 16.25. and other expre&s;&s;e texts in the New Te&s;tament,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> in lib. P&s;al. Prolog. <HI>Ba&s;il.</HI> de virt. &amp; laud. P&s;al. Tom. <HI>1.</HI></NOTE> as <HI>Colo&s;.</HI> 3.16. <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 5.19. <HI>Jam.</HI> 5.13. Among other ancient Wri|ters <HI>Ba&s;il</HI> &s;peaks large in the prai&s;e of pray&s;ing God in this way, and abun|dantly ble&s;&s;es God for the Book of the P&s;almes as a fit foundation for this duty.</P>
<P>Le&s;&s;e ordinary, yet frequent] duties upon the Lords day to be done, they do relate to
<LIST>
<ITEM>Sacraments admini&s;tring,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cen&s;ures inflicting, and</ITEM>
<PB N="130" REF="86">
<ITEM>Nece&s;&s;ities &s;upplying.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Sacraments;] The tran&s;acting of the&s;e &s;uites be&s;t unto the Sabbath &s;ea|&s;on. One well ob&s;erves that upon the day of the ancient Sabbath, the &s;acrifi|ces were doubled:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Danaeus,</HI> Ethic. Chr. lib. <HI>2.</HI> cap. <HI>10.</HI></NOTE> And our Sacraments &s;ucceeding the&s;e, &s;hould not onely come in their room, but be at their time as &s;ervices mo&s;t &s;ea&s;onable for the day of our Sabbath. <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tome</HI> reports how in the primitive times the Lords day had a double name, 'twas called
<LIST>
<ITEM><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Chry&s;o&s;t.</HI> de Re&s;urr. Serm. <HI>15.</HI></NOTE>The day of light, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The day of bread.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Of light,] Becau&s;e on that day the Sacrament of Bapti&s;me was wont to be openly admini&s;tred.</P>
<P>Of bread,] Becau&s;e the Sacrament of the Lords Supper u&s;ed to be celebra|ted on that day in the A&s;&s;emblies of Chri&s;tians. And this was the manner of the Di&s;ciples in the time of the Apo|&s;tles, <HI>Act.</HI> 20.7.</P>
<P>Cen&s;ures,] The exerci&s;e of Di&s;ci|pline is fit for the Lords day, when the &s;ervants of Chri&s;t are a&s;&s;embled, then to remove from among them &s;canda|lous per&s;ons both in opinion, and pra|ctice; that's a plain place, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5.4.
<PB N="131" REF="86"> <HI>In the Name of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, when ye are gathered together,</HI> [viz. on our Lords day] <HI>and my &s;pirit, with the power of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, to deliver &s;uch a one unto Satan, &amp;c.</HI> And the fir&s;t power for this purpo&s;e that our Saviour gave to his Di&s;ciples, was upon the day of our Chri&s;tian Sabbath, the fir&s;t day of the week: &s;ee <HI>Joh.</HI> 20.19, 23. Therein di|recting them as on this day to exerci&s;e that power: and that power (it does appear) was upon this pre&s;ent day prin|cipally put in execution afterward; thus <HI>Origen, Cyprian,</HI> and others relate.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Orig. <HI>can.</HI> Cel&s;. <HI>lib.</HI> 3. Cypr. <HI>ad</HI> Pomp. <HI>Epi.</HI> 62. Greg&punc; Ny&s;. <HI>orat.</HI></NOTE> And O how pure and clean would our wa|ters boyl, could we on this day &s;o ca&s;t off our &s;cum! Help Lord, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Nece&s;&s;ities,] The duty of charita|ble relief is proper for the Lords day, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 16.1, 2. <HI>Tertullian</HI> tells in his Apo|logie for Chri&s;tians, how carefull the Chri&s;tian Churches were to works of mercy on the Lords day, whereby their Brethren in bonds were bountifully &s;upplied, and the bellies of the afflicted refre&s;hed.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Irenaeus <HI>contra</HI> Va|lenti. <HI>lib.</HI> 4, <HI>cap.</HI> 19<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> Another of the Ancients does excellently note from the example of our Saviour, <HI>Luk</HI> 13.15. that the right &s;anctifying the Sabbath day does
<PB N="132" REF="87"> con&s;i&s;t in acts of pitty, works of mercy; and how charitable deeds become this comfortable day, <HI>Luk.</HI> 14.1, 2, 3, 4, 5. is full. The&s;e Sabbath-duties &s;ome way concern the whole body of a people more promi&s;cuou&s;ly.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="15" TYPE="section">
<P N="2">2. There be &s;ome duties on the Sab|bath that do concern &s;ome per&s;ons principally, as
<LIST>
<ITEM>Magi&s;trates and Mini&s;ters,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Parents and Ma&s;ters.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>All ought to concur in their care for the keeping of this day. Indeed the Lords day is the Fort-royal of Religion, let all &s;tand to it in their places, we be not beaten out of that, e&s;pecially now, when &s;o many lay &s;iege thereunto: Some &s;et their wits awork, and op|po&s;e the doctrinal part of it. Others &s;et their wills awork, and impugne the practical part of it; and as they will not re&s;t on the Lords day, &s;o they will not let the Lords day to be at re&s;t, but mount their Cannons, and make what batteries they can, &amp;c. O let all, and e&s;pecially &s;uch as may do more then others, now be&s;tirre them&s;elves to rai&s;e the Sabbath &s;iege, and to main|tain our Sabbath Fort; if we dye, let
<PB N="133" REF="87"> us dye in a couragious keeping of this, indeed if this be taken, all is lo&s;t; hold this, and yet there is hope. Let us that are in publike places play the men. As the two milch-kine, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 6. being coupled together they bore up and car|ried on the Arke of God; Thus let Magi&s;trate and Mini&s;ter be united to hold up the holy day of God, and the holy wor&s;hip of God upon his day. Let Sabbath-breakers for multitude be like a numerous Army: if Magi&s;trate and Mini&s;ter would but joyn, we &s;hould route them all: O how commendable were it if the&s;e two in this regard would agree like <HI>Joab</HI> and <HI>Abi&s;hai</HI> his brother, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 10.11, 12. <HI>If the</HI> Syrians <HI>be too &s;trong for me, then thou &s;halt help me: but if the children of</HI> Ammon <HI>be too &s;trong for thee, then I will come and help thee;</HI> onely <HI>be of a good courage, let us quit our &s;elves like men, for our people, and for the Cities of our God, and the Lord do that which &s;eemeth him good.</HI> So let us do what we are able to the utmo&s;t for the Sabbaths and the &s;ervice of our God, and then the Lord do with us what &s;eems him good. O that tho&s;e who bear the &s;word were fired with &s;ome of
<PB N="134" REF="88"> that Sabbabth-zeal that once <HI>Nehemiah</HI> had, Chap. 13.17, 18, 19. 'Twas a high prai&s;e that <HI>Ambro&s;e</HI> gave of <HI>Theodo&s;ius,</HI> that he was more &s;olicitous to pre&s;erve the things of God as a Magi&s;trate, then to pre&s;erve him&s;elf as a man. And it was a good caution that <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> gives upon <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 2. Magi&s;trates are to be ad|moni&s;hed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Vid. <HI>Pet. Martyr.</HI> in judg. cap, <HI>1.</HI></NOTE> (&s;aith he) as not to grant men immunity to any fal&s;e wor&s;hip, &s;o not to allow men liberty to leave the true wor&s;hip of God. The Magi&s;trate upon the Lords day, is not onely to &s;ee men forbear the outward works of their callings, but to &s;ee that they be about the vi&s;ible works of Gods wor&s;hip.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Augu&s;t: Bonif.</HI> co|miti. Epi&punc; <HI>50.</HI> &amp; prae|cip. Tom. <HI>7.</HI> Cont. epi&s;t. <HI>Parmeniani</HI> lib. <HI>1.</HI> cap. <HI>7.</HI> Tom. <HI>7.</HI> lib. <HI>2.</HI> con|tra Epi&s;t <HI>Gaudentii,</HI> cap. <HI>16.17.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Au|&s;tin</HI> more then once commends Imperi|al Lawes again&s;t the <HI>Donati&s;ts</HI> for &s;epa|rating from the publike wor&s;hip of God, and gathering into private hou&s;es upon the Lords day, there to promote their Anti-magi&s;terial opinions. Which Lawes were to puni&s;h the ordinary peo|ple with fines of Money, their leaders with bani&s;hment, the places of their meeting to be forfeited to the Empe|rour: and that none of them &s;hould have power to be&s;tow their goods by will, or to enjoy any Legacy to them
<PB N="135" REF="88"> by will bequeathed. And he gives In|&s;tances of the execution of the&s;e Laws, and the good &s;ucce&s;&s;e thereof, encoura|ging the Magi&s;trate therein. And when people are brought to the publike Pool,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Joh.</HI> 5.2, 3.</NOTE> the Mini&s;ter is as the Angel that upon this Sabbath-&s;ea&s;on mu&s;t move and work in the waters, to wit, be active in all the Ordinances of God, that &s;uch as by divine a&s;&s;i&s;tance &s;tep clo&s;e in, may meet God for the cure of their &s;ouls. And as the Mini&s;ter is more immediate|ly to manage the wor&s;hip of God upon this holy day; yea, his place is to pre&s;&s;e that men do not on this day of the Sabbath &s;atisfie them&s;elves in a bare bodily way to wor&s;hip God, but to &s;ee they on the Sabbath &s;erve God in Spi|rit and truth. Thus the&s;e two as the two Cherubims that looked one to|wards another, and both upon the Mercy-&s;eat, they &s;hould with re&s;pect look one upon another, and both upon the &s;ervice of the Sabbath, that &s;o the Lord may have his day and his due.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, Let governours of families, Parents and Ma&s;ters contribute their be&s;t a&s;&s;i&s;tance to &s;ee the Sabbath well
<PB N="136" REF="89"> ob&s;erved; for which end towards their children and &s;ervants there is required upon the Lords day a double duty,
<Q><L>A taking of them to the publike means,</L>
<L>And a taking with them private pains.</L></Q></P>
<P N="1">1. You are to bring them with you unto the publike Ordinances. In the time of the Old Te&s;tament people that went to wor&s;hip God, <HI>they carried their flocks and their herds with them,</HI> Ho&s;e. 5.6. that in &s;acrifice they might offer them up to God. In the&s;e times of the New Te&s;tament, men are to carry their children and &s;ervants with them to the wor&s;hip of God upon his holy day, offering them up, with them&s;elves as a &s;acrifice to God. When 'twas re|quired that the whole body of the <HI>I&s;rae|liti&s;h</HI> people &s;hould go out from their dwellings in <HI>Egypt</HI> to &s;erve the Lord to|gether in the Wilderne&s;&s;e, <HI>Pharaoh called Mo&s;es and &s;aid, Go ye &s;erve the Lord, but let your flocks and your herds be &s;tayed:</HI> but what &s;ayes <HI>Mo&s;es? We will go with our flocks and our herds, with our &s;ons and our daughters, with our young and with our old will we go; there &s;hall not a
<PB N="137" REF="89"> hoofe be left behind: for we mu&s;t hold a fea&s;t unto the Lord, and &s;erve the Lord our God,</HI> Exod. 10.9, 24, 26. Such Religious re&s;olutions become Chri&s;tians in the pre&s;ent ca&s;e.</P>
<P N="2">2. Such of you as are heads of families, mu&s;t upon the Lords day be diligent in hou&s;hold-duties: We find in the 4^t^h^. of <HI>Mark,</HI> yea, and likewi&s;e <HI>Luke</HI> 14. how our Saviour on the Sabbath day, when he had publikely preached to the people as a Mini&s;ter of the Go&s;pel, he after privately examined his Di&s;ciples, and further in&s;tructed them as a Ma&s;ter of a family. From which example of Chri&s;t an excellent Expo&s;itor ob&s;erves,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Chemnit.</HI> examen cap. de dieb, fe&s;t.</NOTE> how unto the &s;anctification of the Sab|bath, be&s;ides publike duties there is work to be done in Families, as in&s;tru|cting &s;ervants, repetition of Sermons, reading Scriptures, coun&s;elling and quickning &s;uch as are under our care, that all may keep holy the Lords day.</P>
<P>So we &s;ee the matters men are exhor|ted unto, I come now to con&s;ider the motives by which hereunto men are to be exhorted.</P>
<P>The&s;e are of two &s;orts:
<LIST>
<PB N="148" REF="90">
<ITEM>Some more driving, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Others more drawing.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Motives that more drive unto dili|gence in the&s;e Duties, may ari&s;e by ob|&s;erving concerning the Chri&s;tian Sab|bath the&s;e four things:
<LIST>
<ITEM>The nece&s;&s;ity of it's continued be|ing,</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Jeopardy of its future lo&s;ing,</ITEM>
<ITEM>The uncertainty of its &s;udden re|gaining, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The po&s;&s;ibility of its pre&s;ent cur&s;ing.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="16" TYPE="section">
<P N="1">1. The being of the Lords day is ne|ce&s;&s;ary, note,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Negatively, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Affirmatively.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Not that God needs any Sabbath-&s;ervice, or &s;uch holy duties as additio|nals to his Dignity. Indeed as to us the honour of God &s;eems to &s;ink when Sabbaths cea&s;e. And the &s;upporting of Sabbaths &s;eems the advancing of Gods glory; but the intrin&s;ecal glory of God can receive no increa&s;e. God would be infinitely happy, though men keep no day holy: we need his &s;ervice, not he our obedience. When our Sa|viour &s;ent, <HI>Luk.</HI> 19. <HI>to unloo&s;e the Colt,</HI> the Di&s;ciples were to give the owner
<PB N="139" REF="90"> this rea&s;on thereof: <HI>The Lord hath need of him.</HI> We call indeed to a careful keeping of the Sabbath, but we do not &s;ay the Lord hath need of it. The gods of the Heathen need the &s;upports of &s;uch as &s;erve them; but &s;o does not the God of heaven. Hence &s;ayes the holy Apo&s;tle, <HI>Act.</HI> 17.24, 25 <HI>God that made the world, and all things therein, &s;eeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands, nei|ther is wor&s;hipped with mens hands, as though he needed any thing, &s;eeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things.</HI></P>
<P>One well ob&s;erves of the Angels,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Chry&s;o&s;t&punc;</HI> in Matth. Hom. <HI>9,</HI></NOTE> they are not poor, though they have no flocks of &s;heepe; they are not in want, though &s;ilver &amp; gold they have none; they do not need the&s;e things, becau&s;e they have better things abide them. Thus God does not want our &s;ervice in Sabbaths, neither needs he any of our duties on holy dayes, becau&s;e of tho&s;e mo&s;t perfect felicities, and glorious ex|cellencies that are in him&s;elf abiding. As the Lord is omni&s;cient, and needs not any man to a&s;&s;i&s;t his knowledge: So the Lord is all-&s;ufficient, and needs not any thing to help his happine&s;&s;e. And
<PB N="140" REF="91"> therefore the nece&s;&s;ity of Sabbath-ob|&s;ervance does not referre to God: But to ob&s;erve Sabbaths, the nece&s;&s;ity is in reference to us for a double cau&s;e, viz.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><NOTE PLACE="marg">Nece&s;&s;itas duplex, Prae|cepti, &amp; Medii.</NOTE>Gods Injunction towards us, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Our condition towards God.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="1">1. 'Tis nece&s;&s;ary for us to ob&s;erve the Sabbath day in all its duties, becau&s;e of Gods injunction. And here 'tis meet of two things to take good notice, to wit,</P>
<P>Every command of God cau&s;es a nece&s;&s;ity of our obodience: and here is a nece&s;&s;ity of our obedience, becau&s;e of Gods expre&s;&s;e command.</P>
<P N="1">1. Whereever God gives a word of command, there is a work of our obe|dience nece&s;&s;ary. I had rather (&s;ayes <HI>Luther</HI>) obey the Lords commands, then to work Miracles. If Miracles need be wrought, God will do his own work; but 'tis needfull we obey commands, for God will not do mans work. As God by his promi&s;es binds him&s;elf to vouch|&s;afe mercy: So God by his precepts binds us to perform duty. As God promi&s;ing mercy, requires our faith; &s;o God commanding duty, requires our
<PB N="141" REF="91"> obedience. Obedience 'tis a debt which as we certainly owe, &s;o we mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily pay. Some they owe to God the debt of pa&s;&s;ive obedience, as they are his pri&s;oners: all, they owe to God the debt of active obedience, as they are his creatures.</P>
<P N="2">2. Here God gives a word of mani|fe&s;t command, and therefore vi&s;ibly to obey is nece&s;&s;ary: <HI>Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day,</HI> Exod. 20.8. Touch|ing this commandement, That the Sabbath day be kept holy, we may ob&s;erve,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Who was the Giver of it,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mediatorem hic appellat Chri&s;tum, de|clarans qu&ograve;d ip&s;e ante legem fuerit, &amp; legem tulerit. <HI>Chry&s;o&s;t.</HI> In principio mundi Chri|&s;tus Media|tor erat ho|minum, etfi nondum erat homo, &amp;c. <HI>Orig. Am|bro&s;.</HI> lib. <HI>4.</HI> in Luc.</NOTE> and</ITEM>
<ITEM>To whom it was given.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. He who gave this Sabbath Com|mand, was Chri&s;t the Mediatour; He who came down upon Mount <HI>Sinai,</HI> and gave the whole Law, is called <HI>Je|hovah, Exod.</HI> 20.2. <HI>Deut.</HI> 4 11. This the Septuagint tran&s;late (Lord;) And the &s;ame the holy Apo&s;tle applies to the Mediatour, our Lord Chri&s;t, <HI>Gal.</HI> 3.19. And <HI>Origen, Chry&s;o&s;tome, Ambro&s;e,</HI> with almo&s;t all the Ancients, in expounding that place of the Apo&s;tle, do affirme, that 'twas Chri&s;t the Mediatour both of the Old and New Te&s;tament, by whom
<PB N="142" REF="92"> the Law was given: So <HI>Calvin, Juni|us, Marlorat,</HI> and other able Writers &s;ince a&s;&s;ert upon the &s;ame text. We are therefore to look upon this &s;anctifying the Sabbath, as that for which Chri&s;t hath given a po&s;itive Command. 'Twas not a Mo&s;aical Cere|mony pointing to Chri&s;t: but 'tis a Moral duty appointed by Chri&s;t, and &s;o to remain under the Go&s;pel and go|vernment of Chri&s;t, untill Chri&s;t &s;hall deliver up the Kingdome to God the Father, and &s;et an end to all times and things in this world.</P>
<P N="2">2. He to whom this Sabbath-Com|mand was given, is every one Indi|vidually, <HI>[Thou] Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day. Thou;]</HI> Not as a <HI>Jew,</HI> but as a man, every man, both <HI>Jew</HI> and Chri&s;tian. Herein who&s;oever exempts him&s;elf, deceives him&s;elf. Yea, and of all the commands, not any have &s;uch a <HI>Memorandum</HI> upon it, as that which concerns the &s;anctifying of the Sabbath. <HI>Remember,</HI>] As it related to a duty to be performed in dayes pa&s;t, &s;o it related to a people that in dayes pa&s;t &s;hould &s;till perform that duty. A Chri|&s;tian Church to come. <HI>Remember,</HI>] If
<PB N="143" REF="92"> men forget all the re&s;t, yet let them re|member this; and if they well remember this, not any of the re&s;t will be forgoten. That which <HI>Luther</HI> affirms of the fir&s;t, may wel be referred to the 4. Command|ment, that in the ob&s;ervance of that, obedience to all the re&s;t is comprized.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Sabbath day in all its duties is nece&s;&s;ary for men to &s;anctifie, becau&s;e of their condition, whether they be con&s;idered
<LIST>
<ITEM>As unregenerate,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or as regenerate.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. For men in an unregenerate e&s;tate, they need to have a holy Sabbath ob|&s;erved.</P>
<P>And of &s;uch there are two &s;orts;</P>
<P>Some in a &s;inful e&s;tate, and know it not: and others that know their e&s;tate to be &s;inful.</P>
<P>And towards both, there's a nece&s;&s;ity of Sabbaths.</P>
<P N="1">1. For &s;uch men as are &s;infull, and do not know it, but are utterly in the darke. <HI>Gen.</HI> 1. we find, that at the be|ginning there was darkne&s;&s;e as a black vaile drawn over the face of the deepe, but God upon the fir&s;t day in the week created light, which was exceeding
<PB N="144" REF="93"> good. God upon the fir&s;t day of the week our Chri&s;tian Sabbath, creates that good light which &s;catters darkne&s;&s;e, that before covered the face of the &s;oul, and cau&s;eth &s;uch di&s;coveries of things never before &s;een, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 14.23 24, 25. <HI>If the whole Church be come together,</HI> [viz. on the Lords day] <HI>there comes in one ignorant, and he hearing the Word, is convinced, is judged, the &s;ecrets of his heart are made manife&s;t, and &s;o falling down he wor&s;hips God, &amp;c.</HI> And in|deed this is one great end of Sabbaths and Sermons, <HI>Act.</HI> 26.18. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 4.4, 5, 6.</P>
<P N="2">2. For &s;uch men as know them&s;elves &s;inful, Sabbath-&s;ervice is nece&s;&s;ary, that they may con&s;ider how &s;ad it is to per|&s;i&s;t in known &s;ins, <HI>Luk.</HI> 12.47. <HI>Joh.</HI> 15.22, 24. <HI>Jam.</HI> 4.17. For &s;ome, our Saviour &s;ayes, <HI>Father, forgive them, they know not what they do:</HI> but of &s;everal we may &s;ay, Father, affright them, they know what they do. They tran&s;gre&s;&s;e Gods Lawes, abu&s;e his mercies, they oppo&s;e his Servants, and they know what they do. The former need Sab|baths to convince them of the evil they know not: And the&s;e latter need Sab|baths
<PB N="145" REF="93"> to convert them from the evil they know. Yea, to all &s;orts of &s;inners there's &s;uch a nece&s;&s;ity of the&s;e dayes and duties, as that there is little likely|hood of any &s;aving good to the &s;ouls of &s;uch as lay a&s;ide the Lords day: but they who come not within Sabbath-compa&s;&s;e, their ca&s;e becomes incurable. Though a man be never &s;o di&s;ea&s;ed and &s;ick, yet as long as he lyes at Phy&s;ick, keeps his purging dayes, and u&s;es good means for health, there is hope he may do well; but when he neglects his hea|ling time, lets his di&s;ea&s;e run, will not come under the Phy&s;icians hands, then his ca&s;e growes de&s;perate, and dye he mu&s;t. Even &s;o though a man be ne|ver &s;o &s;inful, yet as long as he keeps within Sabbath-compa&s;&s;e, and comes under the means of &s;oul-cure, there is hope he may amend; but if he neglects the Lords day, leaves off holy duties, damne he mu&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2. For men in a regenerate e&s;tate, the Lords day is of nece&s;&s;ary u&s;e; Of what|&s;oever &s;ort we con&s;ider them. Of &s;uch
<LIST>
<ITEM>Some are in &s;ins relap&s;ed, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Others are in &s;orrowes di&s;tre&s;&s;ed.</ITEM>
<ITEM>All need the&s;e Sabbath-helps.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1"><PB N="146" REF="94">1. Relap&s;ed Chri&s;tians need Sabbath-relief. Whether their &s;piritual decay be,
<LIST>
<ITEM>In opinion,</ITEM>
<ITEM>In affection,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or practice.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The &s;ervice of the Lords day is of nece&s;&s;ary concernment, to clear truth clouded, to quicken love deaded, and to introduce the duties of a holy life neglected.</P>
<P N="2">2. Di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Chri&s;tians need Sab|bath-&s;uccours. Sabbath-Cordials are required for the recovery of faint|ing &s;pirits, and the reviving of droop|ing dying hearts.</P>
<P>Again, Gods Saints are to be con&s;i|dered, either
<LIST>
<ITEM>As more weak,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or more &s;trong.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>And unto them all the Lords day, is a day of deep concernment.</P>
<P N="1">1. For weak ones, they need Sab|bath-&s;upplies, Dayes wherein they may draw near and derive virtue from Chri&s;t, into all their feeble parts. Dayes wherein as babes from the brea&s;ts of the Lord, they may &s;uck in &s;oul-nouri&s;hing milk of grace and mercy to breed them up.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="147" REF="94">2. For &s;trong ones, they need Sab|bath-&s;upports, that they may &s;tand fa&s;t in their good e&s;tate and plight. The highe&s;t and holie&s;t of Gods Saints ought to be under Sabbath-ob&s;ervance, 'tis a re&s;erve for heavens priviledge to be above Ordinances, and pre&s;ent Admini&s;trations. 'Tis the City of the Heavenly <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> that needs not the light of the Sun, neither of the Moon, <HI>Revel.</HI> 21.22. While we live, as we need the Moon, viz. the world with its crea|tures and comforts for the bearing up of our bodies: So we need the Sun, viz. Chri&s;t with his holy times, and things for the well-being of our &s;ouls. Some &s;ay of the time that is &s;pent upon the &s;ervice of Chri&s;t, as they &s;aid of the oyntment poured out upon the bo|dy of Chri&s;t. <HI>What need this wa&s;te? Matth.</HI> 26.8. But as St. <HI>Paul</HI> &s;aid, <HI>A nece&s;&s;ity is laid upon me, and woe to me if I preach not the Go&s;pel,</HI> 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 9.16. So may every one &s;ay, A nece&s;&s;ity is laid upon me, and woe to me if I &s;anctifie not the Sabbath. The &s;ancti|fying of the Sabbath is as the <HI>[One thing needfull]</HI> to Chri&s;tians in re|ligion, and unto the religion of Chri|&s;tians.
<PB N="148" REF="95">
'Tis &s;aid of <HI>Jacob</HI> that his life was bound up in the life of his &s;on <HI>Ben|jamin:</HI> So the life of a Chri&s;tian, and the life of his religion is bound up in the life of Sabbaths. As <HI>Rachel</HI> &s;aid, <HI>Give me children, or el&s;e I dye:</HI> &s;o a Chri&s;tian &s;ayes, Give me Sabbaths, or el&s;e I dye. Religion &s;ayes, Give me Sabbaths, or el&s;e I die. The Sabbath is as the &s;oul of Chri&s;tian-Religion, if that departs, all becomes as a Carca&s;e, upon which the Vermin of corrupt opi|nions prey: 'tis nece&s;&s;ary then this continue.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="section">
<P N="2">2. Of lo&s;ing the Lords day there is danger: And here we &s;hall di&s;cover
<LIST>
<ITEM>The grounds of the lo&s;&s;e, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The greatne&s;&s;e of the lo&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The grounds on which we may &s;ee the Sabbath in hazard to be lo&s;t, and the Lords day in our dayes likely to cea&s;e, are
<LIST>
<ITEM>The &s;infulne&s;&s;e of men, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of God.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. Men being mon&s;trou&s;ly &s;inful, put upon us this pre&s;ent peril of being de|prived of the Lords day, to wit,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Wicked men again&s;t us more remote, and</ITEM>
<PB N="149" REF="95">
<ITEM>Wicked men among&s;t us more imme|diate.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. Men of the Romi&s;h Religion in remote Nations, are they not bigg with a de&s;ign to make our Sabbaths cea&s;e? As &s;ome of the Powder-Traitors 1605. Confe&s;&s;ed the cau&s;e why they &s;ought to blow up the Parliament-hou&s;e was, be|cau&s;e that was a place wherein again&s;t the Romi&s;h Religion &s;o many Lawes were made. And do not Popi&s;h par|ties in all places, plot again&s;t the Sab|bath day, becau&s;e that is the time wherein again&s;t their Idolatrous wor|&s;hips &s;o many truths are taught? And are not now their hopes high, by our pre&s;ent Wars, to deprive us of our pre|cious times and things; to rai&s;e <HI>Rome</HI> in the ruines of poor Prote&s;tant Nati|ons? Does not Antichri&s;t crow ovet the&s;e Chri&s;tian Kingdomes, as once <HI>Tyrus</HI> over <HI>Jeru&s;alem, Aha, aha, &s;he is broken, that was the gates of the people, &s;he is turned unto me, I &s;hall be repleni&s;hed, now &s;he is laid wa&s;te?</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Among our &s;elves how many &s;eek to &s;et us be&s;ide our Sabbath-mercies? As
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both Papi&s;ts,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And Athei&s;ts.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<PB N="150" REF="96">
<P>Papi&s;ts,] Who &s;ecretly con&s;ult in our chief Cities to lay us Sabhath-wa&s;te. <HI>Je&s;uits</HI> who can cunningly comr like Countrey-men, and be &s;een like Soul|diers, Citizens, Lawyers, Preachers, in any po&s;ture to promote their projects.</P>
<P>Athei&s;ts,] The&s;e like <HI>Pharaoh's</HI>-frogs are found covering the land, and croak|ing again&s;t the Lords day in every Pond, in every Pari&s;h.</P>
<P>Men that would have no God for a Sabbath, would have no Sabbath for God</P>
<P>Yea, what numbers of two &s;orts may we &s;ee, all &s;etting again&s;t our Sabbath-enjoyments.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Men of rotten principles, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Men of wretched practices.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>As <HI>Herod</HI> and <HI>Pilate</HI> both agreed for the Lords death, &s;o the&s;e both joyn again&s;t the Lords Day.</P>
<P>As the ble&s;&s;ed body of Chri&s;t was crucified between the Theeves, &s;o the ble&s;&s;ed day of Chri&s;t is now crucifying between loo&s;e Sectaries, and prophane &s;inners. And Lord help, who labours to re&s;cue it? Who &s;ees not our Sab|bath-&s;lightne&s;&s;e, wearine&s;&s;e, and wil|lingne&s;&s;e to be &s;et Sabbath-free? The
<PB N="151" REF="96"> barrenne&s;&s;e of the be&s;t, and the ingra|titude of the greate&s;t part, what does it foretell, but an approaching time of turning out, and overturning Sab|baths?</P>
<P N="2">2. God being infinitely righteous, makes the danger of this more exceed|ingly dangerous. God in his ju&s;t way of Judgements makes mournfull re|moves of &s;uch &s;weet mercies, either
<Q><L>When men to follow their &s;ins, for|&s;ake his Sabbaths;</L>
<L>Or when men ob&s;erve his Sabbaths, but in their &s;ins.</L></Q></P>
<P><HI>I&s;ay</HI> 1.13. <HI>Your Sabbaths, and your &s;olemn A&s;&s;emblies I cannot away with, your hands are full of blood.</HI> Bloody hands cannot hold Gods ble&s;&s;ed day. Tho&s;e things will away, that God cannot a|way with. 'Tis not all the powers, nor policies of men and Divels can pull a|way Sabbaths from a Land if there the Lord will hold them, neither is it all the Prayers and Powers of Saints and Angels can keep Sabbaths in a Land if thence the Lord will take them. Let not us in <HI>England</HI> think we have &s;uch a &s;ettled Fee-&s;imple of the Sabbath, as that there is no di&s;inheritting, or &s;uch
<PB N="152" REF="97"> an entaile, as cannot be cut off. The Apo&s;tle, <HI>Rom.</HI> 11. &s;peaking of Gods cut|ting off the Chuch of the <HI>Jewes,</HI> a learn|ed Expo&s;itor puts the que&s;tion, <HI>How did God cut them off?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Olevian.</NOTE> And then gives the an&s;wer, <HI>By taking from them his Word, Sacraments, and Sabbaths,</HI> Lam. 2.6. <HI>The Lord hath cau&s;ed the &s;olemn fea&s;ts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in</HI> Zion. What in <HI>Zion? The Lord loves the gates of</HI> Zion, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 87.2. <HI>The Lord hath cho&s;en</HI> Zion, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 132.13. <HI>The Lord dwelleth in</HI> Zion, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 76.2. yet God cau&s;es Sabbaths to be forgotten in <HI>Zion?</HI> Yes, <HI>Zion</HI> and Sabbaths are parted, with the lo&s;&s;e of Sabbaths even <HI>Zion</HI> is puni&s;hed. And O <HI>England,</HI> doe&s;t not thou fear &s;uch a day drawing near?</P>
<P>Art thou better then <HI>Zion?</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. How great, the lo&s;&s;e of the Lords day will be, we may mournfully fore|&s;ee in four things, viz.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Matter it will be of,</ITEM>
<ITEM><NOTE PLACE="marg">This was Preached at a time when no le&s;&s;e lay in danger.</NOTE>The Subject it will be to,</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Sea&s;on it will be in, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Sequels that will be thereupon.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="1">1. The matter the lo&s;&s;e will be of. In the cea&s;ing of Sabbaths, a paw&s;e is
<PB N="153" REF="97"> put unto the precious things of God, as the Go&s;pel with its glorions admini|&s;trations. Was it not a &s;ad cau&s;e with the City <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> when the &s;ucklings &s;wooned in the &s;treets, and the children cryed to their Mothers, Where is Corn and Wine? And will it not be for poor people pittifull to cry to their Mini&s;ters, Where is the Word and Sa|craments? Where be tho&s;e ble&s;&s;ed re|fre&s;hments we were wont to find? That was a dolefull day, <HI>Jer.</HI> 14.3. when <HI>little ones were &s;ent to the waters, but they returned with ve&s;&s;els empty, be|cau&s;e the pits were dry.</HI> And will it not be a wofull day for men, women and children to go for the water of the Word whither they were wont, but to return with ve&s;&s;els empty, for the pits are dry, or full of mud and dirt? [What the pre&s;ent &s;inking of the &s;prings and drying of the &s;treams may mean, I much fear to think.] Will not that lo&s;&s;e be great, wherein the Word of life is lo&s;t? <HI>What</HI> (&s;ayes <HI>Luther) is the World with|out the Word but a dark hell?</HI> And what is a Land without the Go&s;pel, but a black Lanthorne without a candle? The keeping of the Sabbath hath been the
<PB N="154" REF="98"> honour of our Nation, and the Go&s;pel the glory of our Land; when the one is down, the other will be gone, and then may we write <HI>Ichabod</HI> upon all our doors. I read of a <HI>Germane</HI> Mini&s;ter, when he &s;aw hopes of the Go&s;pels-pa&s;&s;age, he cryed out with joy, <HI>Let it come, let it come.</HI> O but to let it go, what bitter cryes will it co&s;t?</P>
<P N="2">2. The Subject, this lo&s;&s;e will be to, It will be the &s;ouls of men will &s;uffer &s;orely herein. Sabbath-lo&s;&s;e is a &s;oul-lo&s;&s;e. A &s;oul in our Saviours account is of more worth then all the World, <HI>Matth.</HI> 16.26. <HI>Even the wor&s;t &s;oul</HI> (&s;ayes <HI>Au&s;tin) is better then the be&s;t body.</HI> As the Apo&s;tle &s;ayes of man, <HI>he was not made for the woman, but the woman for the man. And &s;o</HI> (&s;ayes <HI>Chry&s;o|&s;tome) the &s;oul was not made for the body, but the body for the &s;oul which is the better part.</HI> If we lo&s;e health, Wealth, and all the things of the world that relate to the body, 'tis but a little lo&s;&s;e. But if we lo&s;e the Word, Sacraments, and Sabbaths, it being a lo&s;&s;e that relates to the &s;oul, it is exceeding great.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Sea&s;on this lo&s;&s;e is likely to be in, makes it more lamentable. We find
<PB N="155" REF="98"> it foretold, <HI>Math.</HI> 24, that towards the latter end of the World there &s;hould be times of great tribulation. <HI>Nation &s;hould ri&s;e again&s;t Nation,</HI> &amp;c. Ill in &s;uch a time to be without Sabbat as: It was wofull for tho&s;e Virgins, <HI>Matth.</HI> 25. when there was a cry at midnight, <HI>Behold, the Bridegroom comes,</HI> and then their Lamps were out, and their oil to &s;eek. And doleful will it be for tho&s;e Nations, when they &s;hall be in their Nights of Trouble, and hear nothing but cries, Behold, more mi&s;ery comes, and then to have their Lamps out, their burning and &s;hining lights gone. Have not our hopes been high to &s;ee Sab|baths more firmly &s;ettled, the Go&s;pell more clearly preached, Ordinances more purely admini&s;tred, and if after all, all &s;hould be da&s;hed down in the dirt, and we left in the dark, how dreadful would this be? To lo&s;e Sabbaths at any time were &s;ad but at &s;uch a time as this.</P>
<P N="4">4. The &s;equels of the lo&s;&s;e make it mo&s;t lamentable. Fearfull effects will follow the lo&s;&s;e of the Lords Day, viz. the de&s;olating the places of publike a&s;|&s;emblies, <HI>Levit.</HI> 26.31. <HI>Lam.</HI> 2.6. <HI>P&s;al.</HI>
<PB N="156" REF="99"> 74.4, 5, 6. The Prophet thus &s;adly &s;ighs it out to God: <HI>Thine enemies roar in the mid&s;t of the congregation, they &s;et up their en&s;igns for &s;igns. A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees,</HI> viz. to build places for Gods publike Wor&s;hip. <HI>But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers. They ca&s;t fire into thy Sanctuary: yea, they &s;ay in their hearts, Let us take the hou&s;es of God in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, let us de&s;troy them together, and burn up all the Synagogues of God in the Land.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Decet Sacer|dotes cum Templis in|terire.</NOTE> <HI>Titus</HI> with his Roman ar|my when he ruined <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> burnt the Temple, he commanded the Prie&s;ts of the Lord to be &s;lain. <HI>Time will come,</HI> &s;ays our Saviour to his Di&s;ciples, <HI>that they which kill you, will think they doe God good &s;ervice,</HI> John 16.2. Rom. 11.3. Or if &s;uch places be not plucked down, they abu&s;e them to abominable wor&s;hips. <HI>When ye &s;hall &s;ee the obomination of de&s;olation &s;tand in the holy place,</HI> Math. 24.15. In&s;tead of a preaching Mini&s;tery, a wooden Idol. 'Tis &s;aid of the <HI>Egyptian</HI> Temples, <HI>they are beautifull without but within ugly formes.</HI> To have the places of our publike meetings filled with deformed faces, and
<PB N="157" REF="99"> bla&s;pheming voices. <HI>Owles to dwell there, and Satyres dance there,</HI> I&s;ay 13.22, 23. Yea, upon this lo&s;&s;e followes not onely the de&s;olating the places of pub|like wor&s;hip that be in the Land, but the de&s;olating the Land it &s;elf wherein the places of publike wor&s;hip be, <HI>Le|vit.</HI> 26.31, 33. <HI>I will bring your Sanctu|aries into de&s;olation, and I will not &s;mell the &s;avour of your &s;weet odours, Yea, I will make this whole Land de&s;olate, that your enemies &s;hall be a&s;toni&s;hed thereat. Then &s;hall the Land enjoy her Sabbaths, as long as it lies de&s;olate.</HI> The Land &s;hall have Sabbaths of re&s;t from plowing, when Sabbaths of praying cea&s;e. Now let us hence learn how lamentable the lo&s;s of the Lords Day would be. I fear &s;ome are &s;o profane, that they think while Sabbaths are kept, the lo&s;&s;e is great.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> de civit. Dei, li. <HI>6.</HI> ca. <HI>11.</HI></NOTE> Au|&s;tin reports of that heathen Philo&s;opher <HI>Seneca, That he &s;everely blamed the</HI> Jews <HI>for re&s;ting on the Seventh Day, becau&s;e thereby they lo&s;t the &s;eventh part of their time.</HI> Some I doubt that are called Chri&s;tians, that yet are of &s;uch a Paga|ni&s;h opinion, that they think that time lo&s;t which is &s;pent in the Service of God. But this, this is indeed that lo&s;&s;e
<PB N="158" REF="100"> which the Lord help us to lay clo&s;e to heart, not to have the Service of God to &s;pend Sabbath-time in, and not to have Sabbath-time to &s;pend in the Ser|vice of God. To lo&s;e the Sabbath is not alone the lo&s;&s;e of bare time, but of ble&s;&s;ed time, time &s;anctified and &s;et apart by a Divine Ordinance, &amp;c.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Lords Day lo&s;t in a land may be long before it be regained. The way of Sabbaths once cea&s;ed, may not &s;oone (if ever) return, as may evi|dently appeare in a double re&s;pect. viz.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of God inflicting this lo&s;&s;e, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of Men on whom this lo&s;&s;e is inflict|ed.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<Q>1. Becau&s;e God does not make Sab|baths to cea&s;e in a &s;infull Land, but when there is great wrath in him &s;tirred up, and great wrath of him to be poured out.</Q>
<P N="1">1. When God takes away his holy Sabbath from a people, he is with great wrath provoked. The Lord does not deprive a people of &s;uch precious pri|viledges, as his holy times and things, till he is very angry, and exceedingly in|cen&s;ed,
<PB N="159" REF="100"> &s;o as that him&s;elf for&s;akes them. Now great wrath in God as it is not &s;uddenly rai&s;ed; &s;o it is not pre|&s;ently appea&s;ed, but it may remain long, <HI>Zech.</HI> 1.12.</P>
<P N="2">2. When God takes away his holy Sabbath from a people, he hath great wrath to execute: <HI>The Lord hath cau&s;ed the Sabbaths to be forgotten in</HI> Zion, <HI>Lam.</HI> 2.6. This was when God had great anger again&s;t <HI>Zion,</HI> and <HI>Zion</HI> was &s;adly covered with the anger of God. <HI>How hath the Lord covered the daughter of</HI> Zion <HI>with a cloud in his anger</HI> Lam. 2.1. <HI>He hath thrown down in his wrath the &s;trong holds of the daughter, of</HI> Zion, v. 2. <HI>He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horne of</HI> Zion, v. 3. <HI>He hath poured out upon</HI> Zion <HI>his fury like fire,</HI> v. 4. <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Now when God hath much fury to bring forth, and in the way of his judg|ments much work to do, he takes time. God in the wayes of his mercie goes &s;wift, becau&s;e therein he moves with delight, <HI>Micah</HI> 7.18. But as God is &s;low to execute wrath, &s;o he is &s;low in the wrath he executes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dolet Deus quoties cogi|tur e&s;&s;e fe|rox.</NOTE> for herein he moves with a kind of grief, <HI>Judg.</HI> 10.16. <HI>Lam.</HI> 3.33,</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="160" REF="101">2. Such men as &s;uffer this &s;ad puni&s;h|ment, the ce&s;&s;ation of Sabbaths. 'Tis long
<Q><L>As before they come to a true &s;en&s;e of it,</L>
<L>So before they may make a good u&s;e of it.</L></Q></P>
<P>Men are many times long before they are &s;en&s;ible
<Q><L>Either of their &s;in, which is the cau&s;e of puni&s;hment,</L>
<L>Or of the puni&s;hment, that is the ef|fect of their &s;in.</L></Q></P>
<P>Commonly men that come under this Spiritual Judgement, the deprival of the Lords holy day,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Either they are plea&s;ed with it,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or they are &s;tupid under it.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="18" TYPE="section">
<P>Some they plea&s;e them&s;elves in being Sabbath-free, as we may &s;ee at pre&s;ent in &s;ome parts of the Nation. Can it be believed, that in <HI>England</HI> or <HI>Wales,</HI> there &s;hould be Pari&s;hes wherein the people know not when the Sabbath comes, neither do they enquire, but are contented, and account liberty from Gods Ordinance, a great deliverance. People are plea&s;ed when well-&s;pent Sabbath dayes are down,
<Q><PB N="161" REF="101">
<L>Becau&s;e then they are gone, who di|&s;turbed them, and</L>
<L>Becau&s;e then they find others in place, that flatter them.</L></Q></P>
<P>Such as cau&s;ed them &s;ome &s;oul-di&s;|quiet are gone, <HI>Revel.</HI> 11. See how merry the world makes it when Gods witne&s;&s;es are &s;lain: <HI>They that dwell upon earth &s;hall make merry, rejoyce and &s;end gifts one to another, becau&s;e the two Prophets that tormented them are dead,</HI> ver&s;. 10. Yea, and then &s;uch as keep them in a carnal, quiet, and &s;infull &s;e|cure peace are pre&s;ent. See the people of the <HI>Jewes,</HI> when <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> was gone from among&s;t them and they got <HI>Aaron</HI> to be of their own minds, and made them a golden Calf; O what dancings and merry doings there was! <HI>Exod.</HI> 32. It liked them well, but it wrought them woe. 'Twas that which had a &s;ad in|fluence into all their after troubles. Hence it grew a Proverb:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Non e&s;t poe|na &s;upra I&s;raelem in qua non e&s;t uncia vitult.</NOTE> <HI>That there was no puni&s;hment upon I&s;rael in which there was not an ounce of the goldden Calf.</HI> Thus people when they can get &s;uch Mini&s;ters among them,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sabbatum aurei vituli. <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI></NOTE> as will help make them, <HI>a Sabbath of the golden Calf,</HI> as <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> calls it, that they may
<PB N="162" REF="102"> huddle and &s;lubber over a little &s;ervice to God, and pa&s;&s;e the principal of the day in dancing, fea&s;ting, and Jovial meetings, this is to their minds, but 'twill be mi&s;ery in the end. 'Twill put a &s;ting into every trouble on earth, and torment in hell.</P>
<P>Others under this judgement of Sab|bath-cea&s;ing are &s;otti&s;h, and bruti&s;h. Abundance &s;uch there be now abroad in <HI>England,</HI> where for want of a pub|like Mini&s;tery the Lords day it laid by, and &s;ince that liberty hath been granted to &s;ome upon the Sabbath, wholly to &s;eparate into private hou&s;es: others have taken the advantage to live like Athei&s;ts and Epicures, as if there were no Sabbath for God, nor any God for a Sabbath. Yea, people are in &s;uch a po&s;ture, that if the Lord &s;hould puni&s;h the Land with the lo&s;&s;e of Sabbaths, 'tis not like &s;oon to be laid to heart. With many, the Lords day is already lo&s;t in the Land. As they that being asked, whether they had re|ceived the holy Gho&s;t? An&s;wered, <HI>We know not whether there be any holy Gho&s;t.</HI> So aske many now adayes, whe|ther they have ob&s;erved the Lords holy
<PB N="163" REF="102"> day? they are ready to an&s;wer, they know not whether there be any &s;uch holy day to be ob&s;erved. Time was, a Book was &s;et out to give liberties up|on the Lords day, men now take their liberties from the Lords day without any Book. And they that do not, are &s;o li&s;tle&s;&s;e and livele&s;&s;e in the Lords-day-duties, that I doubt if God &s;hould judicially deprive us of Sabbath-Sea|&s;ons, we &s;hould not thereof &s;oon be &s;en&s;ible. And &s;o the time of Sabbath-returnes may likely be long.</P>
<P>Again, if the Lord &s;hould lay &s;uch a Judgement upon the whole Land, as the lo&s;&s;e of Sabbaths, 'tis not probable people will pre&s;ently make &s;uch a pro|fitable u&s;e thereof,
<LIST>
<ITEM>As to prize them highly,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And to pray for them earne&s;tly.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Highly God will have them prized. God will rai&s;e Sabbath-e&s;teems before he makes Sabbath-returns; before God brings back his ble&s;&s;ed Day, as men &s;hall feele the want, &s;o know the worth thereof, and be of <HI>Davids</HI> mind: <HI>One day in thy Courts is better then a thou&s;and,</HI> P&s;alme 84.10. ver&s;. Heartily God will have them prayed for. [Sabbath-Li|berties,]
<PB N="164" REF="103"> Men &s;hall be humble Petitio|ners for them before they be happy po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ors of them. 'Twas one of the three things <HI>Latimur</HI> did &s;o ordinarily and earne&s;tly pray for in Queen <HI>Marys</HI> dayes; <HI>That the Go&s;pell might be re&s;to|red to</HI> England, <HI>once again, once again,</HI> &amp;c. That Sabbaths might be openly ob&s;erved, and Gods wor&s;hip publikely performed, [Once again, once again.] Which words he u&s;ed to repeat with great vehemencie of &s;pirit. Others concurred in the &s;ame reque&s;t, and had from God a mo&s;t gracious grant. What are <HI>David</HI> de&s;ires and prayers? <HI>P&s;alm</HI> 63.2. <HI>That I may &s;ee (Lord) thy power and thy glory, &s;o as I have &s;een thee in the Sanctuary.</HI> And, <HI>P&s;alm</HI> 42.4. <HI>When I remember the&s;e things, I pour out my &s;oul within me: for I had gone with the multi|tude, I went with them to the hou&s;e of God, with the voice of joy and prai&s;e, with the multitude that kept holyday.</HI> Should holy Sabbath-dayes cea&s;e, &s;ome I doubt not but upon knees bended would beg their bringing back, though the Major part would likely make little of it. O that men would yet make much of Sabbath-Sea&s;ons, le&s;t &s;uch a time come when
<PB N="165" REF="103"> they would they cannot! <HI>Time will be,</HI> &s;ayes our Saviour to his Di&s;ciples, <HI>Luke</HI> 17.22. <HI>when ye &s;hall de&s;ire to &s;ee one of the daies of the Son of man, and &s;hall not &s;ee it.</HI> O if you might but have one Sab|bath as in former times! <HI>Luke.</HI> 19.42, 43. <HI>When he came near, he beheld the City &amp; wept over it, &s;aying, If thou had&s;t known, even thou, at lea&s;t in this thy Day? the things that belong to thy peace, but now they are hid from thine eyes.</HI> The things with the day, and the day with the things there|of are now pa&s;t and gone. <HI>Amos</HI> 8.11. <HI>Behold, the dayes come, &s;aith the Lord, I will &s;end a famine in the Land, not of bread, but of hearing the Word. And men &s;hall wan|der from Sea to Sea, and from the North to the Ea&s;t, they &s;hall run to and fro to &s;eek the Word of the Lord, and &s;hall not find it.</HI> O now, now, while it is called to day, <HI>THE LORDS DAY,</HI> be|fore Sabbaths, and Sermons cea&s;e: though there &s;hould not come &s;uch a time over all the Land, yet it may be upon particular places rain may fall on one City, and not upon another, <HI>Amos</HI> 4.7. Brighr beames of the Sun may &s;hine on one field, and the very next field under a dark &s;hadow, and
<PB N="166" REF="104"> over it a black cloud. There &s;hine; Here rain. O the clear light that hath &s;hi|ned upon the Lords Day, and the &s;weet Sabbaths that have been kept in &s;ome Townes of <HI>England</HI> not long &s;ince: but now <HI>Ichabod, The glory is gone:</HI> God knowes who&s;e turn it may be next. O let me be&s;eech you of this place to look to the Lords Day, be diligent, hold fa&s;t. God never takes away his Sabbaths till people are weary of them, and wil|ling to part with them,</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="19" TYPE="section">
<P N="4">4. To a people the Lords Day may not be lo&s;t, but la&s;t; yet all lie under a cur&s;e.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>They may be cur&s;'d to the Sabbath, &amp;</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Sabbath may be cur&s;'d to them.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>The &s;oules of men may be cur&s;'d towards Sabbaths. <HI>Never let fruit grow on this tree:</HI> Never let Sabbath or Ser|mon do this people good. No &s;ooner had our Saviour cur&s;'d the fig-tree, but it withered at the roots. May there not be found among&s;t us men and women that are mo&s;t mi&s;erably withered,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both branch,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And root?</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Not onely the branch of their out|ward
<PB N="167" REF="104"> profe&s;&s;ion, but al&s;o the root of their inward affection withered. What &s;hall we &s;ay of &s;uch <HI>Galatians,</HI> who would now pluck out <HI>Paul's</HI> eyes, that were once ready to pluck out their eyes for <HI>Paul?</HI> Are not they withered? Are not they under Gods dreadful cur&s;e? For men to be cur&s;'d in the trades they fol|low, &amp; fields they po&s;&s;e&s;s, is &s;ad: but to be cur&s;'d in the Sabbaths they &s;pend, and cur&s;'d in the Sermons they hear, is wor&s;e. For God to &s;ay to a Mini&s;ter every time a Sabbath comes, Go indeed to the Pulpit, and preach to that people, <HI>Hearing they &s;hall hear, but &s;hall not un|der&s;tand: &s;eeing they &s;hall &s;ee, but not per|ceive. For the heart of this People is wax|ed gro&s;&s;e, their ears are dull of hearing, their eyes have they clo&s;ed.</HI> Now make their hearts hard their eares deafe, their eies blind, that they may never be convert|ed, never healed, but live and die under a Go&s;pell-cur&s;e, and their Soules &s;inking under a Sabbath-cur&s;e: yea, and &s;o Sabbaths them&s;elves may be cur&s;ed to the &s;oules of men. As men by their &s;ins may pollute that day, which otherwi&s;e is holy:</P>
<P>So God by his judgement may cur&s;e
<PB N="168" REF="105"> that day, which otherwi&s;e is ble&s;&s;ed, and &s;o Sabbath-mercy may be turned into a judgement, as <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> Rod was turned into a Serpent.</P>
<P>It would have been ill for <HI>I&s;rael</HI> if the brazen Serpent &s;hould have become a fiery Serpent; that mortally to &s;ting them, that was made to heal them. And will it not be ill for any if the Lords day which is a day of life, &s;hall become a day of death? This &s;aving day, changed into a damning day? 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 12.17. We &s;ee 'twas terrible when God turned a day of Harve&s;t, into a day of tempe&s;t; and that time wherein they &s;hould have gathered their Wheat with the labour of their hands on earth; God &s;cattered it with thunder and hail from heaven. And who would not fear &s;uch an effect, for God to turn a day of Re&s;t, into a day of Wrath, and therein not to ble&s;&s;e, but thereby to bla&s;t mens hearts and hopes? 'Tis &s;weet for Saints, when to them the very cur&s;es of men are ble&s;&s;ed; but 'tis &s;ad for &s;in|ners when to them the very ble&s;&s;ings of God are cur&s;ed, <HI>Mal.</HI> 2.2. <HI>I, &s;aith the Lord, will &s;end a cur&s;e upon you, I will cur&s;e your ble&s;&s;ings, yea, I nave cur&s;ed
<PB N="169" REF="105"> them already, yet ye lay it not to heart.</HI> Beware then I be&s;eech you, how you &s;pend the Lords day, le&s;t the Lord make this ble&s;&s;ed day, to become a cur&s;e.</P>
<P>But I proceed from the&s;e Motives that are more driving,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Genero&s;us animus fa|cilior duci|tur quam trahitur.</NOTE> to in&s;i&s;t upon &s;uch Motives as are more drawing; for upon Generous and Ingenuous minds &s;uch Arguments work mo&s;t. And here I be&s;eech you con&s;ider: The carefull keeping of the Lords day, and the Lords day carefully kept,
<LIST>
<ITEM>It is Equitable,</ITEM>
<ITEM>It is Honourble,</ITEM>
<ITEM>It is Profitable,</ITEM>
<ITEM>It is Delectable.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>And O that God from heaven would &s;et to the help of his own hand, that un|to diligence in the Lords-day-duties you might be drawn by this fourfold Cord.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="20" TYPE="section">
<P N="1">1. For the equity,] That 'tis ju&s;t and fit we all do the utmo&s;t of our endea|vours in the duties of this day, divers rea&s;ons may be drawn.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Some from God,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Some from other men, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>From our &s;elves &s;ome.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="1"><PB N="170" REF="106">1. If we con&s;ider God in his graci|ous dealings, there is much may draw to a diligent ob&s;ervance of his holy Sabbath,
<Q><L>As his general dealing towards us with others,</L>
<L>And above many others, his &s;pecial dealing with us.</L></Q></P>
<P>Let us mark how well God hath here|in dealt with man-kind in common; as for in&s;tance,</P>
<P>His mercy in appointing this day, out of other time, and</P>
<P>His bounty in affording &s;o much time, be&s;ide this day.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, if we con&s;ider,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both our &s;ouls,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And Bodies, There's much mercy.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The common re&s;t of the day, is mer|cy to our bodies,</P>
<P>And the holy work of the day, is Gods mercy to our &s;ouls.</P>
<P>For the &s;aving of our &s;ouls, God in|joynes the work,</P>
<P>And for the ca&s;ing of our Bodies, God Ordains the re&s;t:
<Q><L>That neither our &s;ouls fall, into hell|torments,</L>
<L>Nor our bodies faint, under earthy toylings.</L></Q></P>
<PB N="171" REF="106">
<P>God is plea&s;ed in pitty to &s;et apart a Sabbath. Hence 'tis &s;aid, <HI>Mark</HI> 2.27. <HI>That the Sabbath was made for man]</HI> That is, for mans u&s;e, in order to mans advantage.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gualter <HI>in Marc.</HI> 2. <HI>Homil.</HI> 22.</NOTE> A learned Expo&s;itour upon the place does excellently open this; <HI>Even as had it not been for man, a Savi|our had never been born: So had it not been for man, a Sabbath had never been made. For their &s;akes</HI> (&s;ayes Chri&s;t) <HI>do I &s;anctifie my &s;elf.</HI> And for their &s;akes (&s;ayes God) do I &s;anctifie my day. Now it cannot but be manife&s;t to as many as mark this mercy, how meet it is for each man to make much of the day of God.</P>
<P N="2">2. Let us &s;ee how liberal the Lord hath been in allowing man &s;o much o|ther time, viz. &s;ix dayes, with a re|&s;erve to him&s;elf, <HI>[This ONE.]</HI> As <HI>Jo&s;eph,</HI> Gen. 39. &s;aid to <HI>Potiphars</HI> Wife, <HI>My Ma&s;ter hath not kept back any thing from me but thee, becau&s;e thou art his Wife:</HI> So may each man &s;ay to the Sabbath, God the great Ma&s;ter hath kept back no time from me but thee, becau&s;e thou art his DAY. We read how under a Parable <HI>Nathan</HI> the Prophet aggra|vated <HI>Davids</HI> &s;in, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 12. <HI>A rich
<PB N="172" REF="107"> man that had many flocks of &s;heep,</HI> yet when a traveller came to his hou&s;e he &s;pared to take of his own, <HI>but took and killed the one ewe-Lamb,</HI> that this poor neighbour had nouri&s;hed up for him|&s;elf. This aggravates the &s;in of many a man, when a temptation comes to his heart, and bu&s;ine&s;&s;e he is to go about, he &s;pares to take of his own time, though he hath &s;everal dayes, but takes of this ONE DAY which God hath &s;et out for him&s;elf. <HI>Luk.</HI> 13. <HI>There are &s;ix dayes wherein men ought to work in them, therefore come and be bealed, but not on the Sabbath day.</HI> So &s;ay I, There are &s;ix dayes for lawfull labour; in them men may go and trade and travel, but not on the Sabbath day. What &s;ayes the Apo&s;tle, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.21. <HI>Have ye not hou&s;es to eat and drink in? or de&s;pi&s;e ye the Church of God?</HI> So I &s;ay: What have ye not nights to &s;leep in, and have ye not dayes to buy and &s;ell in? and have ye not time to recreate and take any lawfull delights in? but pollute ye the day of God? Seeing 'tis but one day in &s;even, how unwearied in holy workings ought we to be? As Chri&s;t &s;aid to his Di&s;ciples when
<PB N="173" REF="107"> he found them a&s;leep, <HI>Could ye not not watch with me one hour?</HI> So will the Lord &s;ay to &s;ome at the la&s;t and great account, Could ye not work for me one day? Seeing the Lord hath been &s;o bountiful as to give us &s;ix daies for our nece&s;&s;ary concernments in the World, he may well claim our clo&s;e attendance upon this one day. God might (as one well ob&s;erves) have required all dayes to be &s;pent in the works of his wor&s;hip,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>See</HI> Pet. Martyr. <HI>Gen.</HI> 2.3. <HI>Read.</HI> Cal. <HI>upon Deut.</HI> 5. <HI>Ser.</HI> 35.</NOTE> and &s;et us by night to get our nece&s;&s;a|ry living. Had all time been ours, then if God had taken out one whole day for him&s;elf and his &s;ervice, and left us &s;ix, we might have made &s;ome exception: But when all time was Gods, &s;o that for men to have a minute is a mercy: yet to have &s;uch a plentifull portion as &s;ix-days-time of God every week, with &s;o &s;mall a re&s;erve to him&s;elf, is well worthy of wonder.</P>
<P>But O how much more to be admired is God in his goodne&s;&s;e towards us of this Nation, and e&s;pecially in the&s;e parts thereof, in &s;ettling among&s;t us for &s;o many years &s;uch Sabbath-Helpers, and Helps for Sabbaths! Should we go into many parts of the Chri&s;tian world,
<PB N="174" REF="108"> yea, into divers parts of this Land we might &s;ee poore people &s;itting of Sab|baths de&s;titute. <HI>Matth.</HI> 20.6, 7. 'tis &s;aid to &s;ome, <HI>Is it not the eleventh hour? Why &s;tand ye here all the day idle? they &s;aid, Becau&s;e no man hath hired us.</HI> Thus might it be &s;aid to &s;everall, Is it not the Sabbath? why walk you about, or &s;it you at home all the day idle? They may an&s;wer, Becau&s;e we have no Mini|&s;ter to preach to us. For want of the Mini&s;tery of the Word, in many Church|es of this Land, the Lords Day lies dead and buried, the generality of people running into Athei&s;me, ready for Pope+ry, and all Soul-poy&s;oning opinions; yet God is good to us, and gives us Sabbath-&s;upplies, Sermons in &s;ea&s;on, and out of &s;ea&s;on: Week-day-lectures, as preparatives to Sabbath-day-labour, and pre&s;ervatives of Sabbath-Day-life, to keep up quickenings in Chri&s;tians, that what they gain on the Lords Day, they may not lo&s;e in the week. Behold, what manner of love is this? And is it not meet, that this Day &s;hould be du|ly ob&s;erved?</P>
<P N="2">2. Let us con&s;ider &s;ome men, and we &s;hall &s;ee the ob&s;ervance of this day more meet; viz.</P>
<LIST>
<PB N="175" REF="108">
<ITEM><HI>Adam</HI> before <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The <HI>Jewes</HI> before Chri&s;t.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="1">1. For <HI>Adam, Peter Martyr</HI> upon <HI>Ge|ne&s;is</HI> the &s;econd ob&s;erves, that man im|mediately after his creation, was to en|ter upon this Holy-day-duties. God having made him a woman for his wife: &s;oone made them a Sabbath for their work. And <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tome</HI> notes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chry&s;o&s;t. Gene. 2. <HI>Homil.</HI> 18.</NOTE> how God in &s;etling the very fir&s;t week of the world &s;anctified a Sabbath; thereby (&s;ays he) <HI>in&s;inuating that in the compa&s;&s;e of every week one whole day was to be &s;pent in &s;pirituall working for God, and a Sabbath to be for holy re&s;t as long as a week of the world la&s;t</HI> Had <HI>Adam</HI> in innocencie remained, he was bound to God in Sabbath-obedience, and is it not more meet that we &s;hould be Sab|bath-bound in obedience to God? Mu&s;t he keep a Sabbath to God his Creator, and we keep no Sabbath to Chri&s;t our Redeemer? Mu&s;t not he mi&s;&s;e a Sab|bath in his compleat condition? and may we omit Sabbaths who have mani|fold imperfections? Might not the fir&s;t Man and the common Father of us all be free? and &s;hall any of his po&s;terity plead liberty?</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="176" REF="109">2. The <HI>Jewes</HI> generally were held un|der the tye of a holy Sabbath. Hereof we have greater cau&s;e for a con&s;ciona|ble cour&s;e. If we con&s;ider,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Our Sabbaths are fewer, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Our mercies are larger.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. The <HI>Jewes</HI> be&s;ides their great Sab|bath, every &s;eventh day, they had &s;ever|al other Sabbaths which they were re|quired to ob&s;erve: <HI>[Sabbaths of moneths, and Sabbaths of years;]</HI> Sabbaths of di|vers &s;orts, <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 1.13. <HI>Ho&s;ea</HI> 2.11. We for our Chri&s;tian Sabbath, have onely one day in &s;even, and &s;hall we cea&s;e the &s;ervice of that, or in the &s;ervice thereof be &s;light?</P>
<P N="2">2. The <HI>Jewes</HI> had not &s;o many mer|cies as we, for engagements unto Sab|bath-ob&s;ervance.</P>
<Q><L>They lo&s;t many mercies that we might find them;</L>
<L>We find many mercies that they ne|ver lo&s;t.</L></Q>
<P N="1">1. Mercies were taken from them, for us to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e. They that were the natural branches were broken off, that we of the wilde Olive might be graffed in. <HI>Behold therefore the goodne&s;&s;e and the &s;everity of God: on them &s;e|verity,
<PB N="177" REF="109"> but towards us goodne&s;&s;e.</HI> See <HI>Romans</HI> the eleventh at large. They received their <HI>Lo-ammi</HI> and <HI>Lo-ruhamah,</HI> that it might be <HI>Ruhamah</HI> and <HI>Ammi</HI> to us, <HI>Ho&s;ea</HI> 1.6, 8. <HI>Ho&s;ea</HI> 2.1.</P>
<P N="2">2. Mercies are given to us that they did never po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e. The be&s;t of them could but look through a lattice, and &s;ee Chri&s;t to come; look upon the &s;a|crifices &s;lain, and &s;ee a Chri&s;t to die: We may &s;ee Chri&s;t come, crucified, rai|&s;ed and &s;et at the right hand of the Maje&s;tie on high.</P>
<Q><L>They had the Go&s;pel vailed in the Law,</L>
<L>We have the Law revealed in the Go&s;pel.</L>
<L>They had the promi&s;es of things pre|cious,</L>
<L>We have the precious things promi|&s;ed.</L></Q>
<P>Shall God to us be more in mercy?</P>
<P>And &s;hall we in duty be le&s;&s;e to God?</P>
<P>We &s;hould be &s;tricter then they in Sabbath-obedience, becau&s;e God hath been larger to us in all &s;orts of kind|ne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P N="3">3. If we yet further con&s;ider our &s;elves, the be&s;t care in keeping the Sab|bath-day is due.</P>
<Q><PB N="178" REF="110">
<L>Other dayes we ob&s;erve, while&s;t we live,</L>
<L>We may live to ob&s;erve but few Sabbath dayes.</L></Q>
<P>As long as we live there are dayes we duly ob&s;erve; &s;ome their Birth-day, others their Marriage-day; The day of &s;ome notable victory; The day of a great deliverance, wherein we know our &s;elves concerned: Our Fair-dayes, and Market-dayes, that meet us every week; upon that day who lyes in bed? or lazies abroad? are not &s;hops filled, and &s;acks crouded, every one in his cal|ling careful? And is it not more meet to mind the Lords day, in the &s;erious ob&s;erving of which con&s;i&s;ts the &s;aving good of &s;ouls, and mens nece&s;&s;ary com|merce for heaven, and conver&s;e with God?</P>
<P>And long we may not live to cele|brate Sabbath-&s;ea&s;ons. The Wi&s;e man <HI>Eccl.</HI> 3. &s;ayes, <HI>There is a time to be borne, and a time to dye;</HI> he &s;ayes nothing of any time to live. <HI>For what is our life?</HI> &s;ayes the Apo&s;tle, <HI>Jam.</HI> 4. <HI>'Tis but a vapour, that appears a little time, and then vani&s;heth away.</HI> Mans time in this world is certainly &s;hort, and how &s;hort
<PB N="179" REF="110"> uncertain; and are his Sabbaths &s;ure? The dayes of mans life are few, and are his Sabbaths many? Indeed he that hath not lived above twenty years, above a thou&s;and Sabbaths have pa&s;&s;ed over his head, but whether his life will la&s;t to the light of another Lords day, he cannot &s;ay. Before the re&s;t comes of another Sabbath on earth we may come to our Sabbath-re&s;t by death. Thus we &s;ee the Equity.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="21" TYPE="section">
<P N="2">2. Let us &s;ee the Excellency of Sab|bath-time. The honour and dignity of this day is di&s;coverable,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both as a holy Sabbath,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And as a Chri&s;tian Sabbath.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. This day having holine&s;&s;e hath honour: For what ever God &s;anctifies and makes holy, he dignifies and makes honourable, 1 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 4.4.</P>
<Q><L>God hath much honoured this holy day,</L>
<L>And this holy day hath much ho|noured God.</L></Q>
<P N="1">1. God hath highly honoured this his holy Day,
<LIST>
<ITEM>By precious Ordinances in it, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>By glorious Exerci&s;es on it.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. The Ordinances God hath put into
<PB N="180" REF="111"> the day, adds to its honour. A ring that is it &s;elf gold, is of value; but put a precious Diamond into it, the weight and worth thereof is greater. Take a plot or parcel of ground that is it &s;elf good, yet if there be rich Woods, Springs, and Mines in it, co&s;tly hou&s;es, and &s;tately buildings on it; this rai&s;es the price. Thus is the Sabbath it &s;elf holy, and highly to be priz'd. O but the rich trea&s;ures of Ordinances where|with God hath adorned the day, draw up the dignity of it. Yea, upon the Sabbath day there is not onely &s;ome &s;ingle Ordinance, but the Ordinances of God gathered; as then there is a meeting of good Chri&s;tians at the Or|dinances: So then there is a meeting of Ordinances for the good of Chri&s;ti|ans. Prayer &s;ayes to Preaching, Come and help me. The Sermon &s;ayes to the Sacrament, Come and help me. Upon this day they all joyn, which is indeed the honour of the day. <HI>Aha&s;huerus</HI> commanded <HI>Mordecai</HI> to be dre&s;&s;ed in all his brave attire, and to have it pro|claimed, <HI>Thus &s;hall it be done to the man the King delights to honour.</HI> The Sabbath, 'tis dre&s;&s;ed up with all the rich
<PB N="181" REF="111"> attire, and &s;tately furniture of glorious Ordinances, that we well may &s;ay, Thus &s;hall it be done unto the day that God delights to honour.</P>
<P N="2">2. Let us &s;ee what God for a further honour hath done upon this day. Upon this day God hath commanded light to &s;hine out of darkne&s;&s;e, brought many a dead <HI>Lazarus</HI> out of his grave: upon this day God hath of &s;tones rai&s;ed up children to <HI>Abraham,</HI> of Lions made Lambs to God, out of &s;inful men con|verted thou&s;ands of &s;ouls to the faith of Chri&s;t. Upon this day God hath made the blind to &s;ee, the deafe to hear, the dumbe to &s;peak, and the lame to walk. Whereas the works of the fir&s;t Creation were all done upon the &s;ix dayes, and none upon the &s;eventh which was the Sabbath-day. All the works of the new Creation are ordi|narily done upon the Sabbath day, rather then upon any of the &s;ix dayes. This, this hath been the Birth day of many &s;piritual Kings and Princes, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 87.5. <HI>And of</HI> Zion <HI>it &s;hall be &s;aid. This and that man was born in her.</HI> And of the Sabbath it may be &s;aid, This and that man was born therein. O ble&s;&s;ed
<PB N="182" REF="112"> day! Millions of Saints in heaven they ble&s;&s;e this day of God, and they ble&s;&s;e God for this day. I read of one that cur&s;ed the day of his Birth; but I ne|ver read of any that cur&s;ed the day of his New Birth. This is the day of re&s;cuing the prey from the mighty, the day of opening the Pri&s;on-dores, and &s;etting the captive free. <HI>Exod.</HI> 12.42. <HI>It is a night much to be ob&s;erved to the Lord for bringing them out from the Land of</HI> Egypt. <HI>This is that night of the Lord to be ob&s;erved of all the children of</HI> I&s;rael <HI>in their generations.</HI> So may we &s;ay of the Sabbath, 'Tis a day much to be ob|&s;erved to the Lord for bringing &s;ouls from the bondage of &s;in. This is the day much to be ob&s;erved to the Lord of all the children of God throughout all generations. This hath been the day of many a &s;piritual Marriage, or the day of Gods e&s;pou&s;ing many &s;ouls to Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Thus hath God honoured this his holy day highly. And as for this holy day, it doth highly honour God, exalting all that appertains to God;
<LIST>
<ITEM>It beautifies the &s;ervice of God,</ITEM>
<ITEM>It dignifies the &s;ervants of God.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1"><PB N="183" REF="112">1. Hereby the &s;ervice of God is beau|tified. <HI>Eccle&s;.</HI> 3.11. <HI>Every work</HI> (&s;ayes the Wi&s;e man) <HI>is beautiful in its &s;ea&s;on.</HI> Holy duties are be&s;t in &s;ea&s;on upon ho|ly dayes. <HI>Preach the Word,</HI> &s;ayes the Apo&s;tle, 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 42. <HI>Be in&s;tant in &s;ea&s;on and out of &s;ea&s;on, rebuke, exhort,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>In &s;ea&s;on;]</HI> That is, upon the Sabbath day.</P>
<P><HI>Out of &s;ea&s;on;]</HI> That is, in the week|time.</P>
<P>So &s;everal &s;ound Expo&s;itors upon the place. <HI>Prov.</HI> 25.11. <HI>Words &s;poken in &s;ea|&s;on, are like apples of gold in pictures of &s;il|ver.</HI> Thus Prayers made, and Sermons preached in &s;ea&s;on, are as golden ap|ples in &s;ilver pictures, one helping to honour the other. The golden apples grace the &s;ilver pictures, and the &s;ilver pictures &s;et out the golden apples. Thus the Sabbath-&s;ervice advances the Sab|bath-&s;ea&s;on, and the Sabbath-&s;ea&s;on exalts the Sabbath-&s;ervice; and all lifts up the honour of God, who hath pre|pared &s;ilver di&s;hes for golden apples, and put golden apples into &s;ilver di&s;hes. Appointing ble&s;&s;ed dayes for &s;acred duties, and &s;acred duties for ble&s;&s;ed dayes.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="184" REF="113">2. Hereby the &s;ervants of God are dig|nified. God in giving the whole Law, and &s;o in proclaiming the Command for the &s;anctifying of the Sabbath, made u&s;e of the Mini&s;tery of Angels, not for nece&s;|&s;ity to him, but dignity to them. 'Twas an honour to the Angels to be pre&s;ent and a&s;&s;i&s;tant when the Sabbath was &s;et forth, <HI>Gala.</HI> 3.19.. Thus God in the continued management of the Sabbath, and carrying on the &s;anctification thereof in the world: makes u&s;e of the Mini&s;tery of men as a dignity to them. Among other re&s;pects there are two mo&s;t remarkable things that do dignifie the office of Mini&s;ters above all other Functions:
<Q><L>The &s;ubject they are imployed for, viz. The Souls of men,</L>
<L>And the Sea&s;on they are imployed in, viz. The Sabhaths of God.</L></Q></P>
<P>Other callings their work lies upon the week-daies, but the Mini&s;ter in his bu&s;ine&s;&s;e lies bound for the Sabbath. O let not any earthly di&s;couragements &s;ink the &s;oules of my dear brethren: but let's honour that God who hath &s;o honoured us, as to bend and bind our bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to this ble&s;&s;ed Day. Hath
<PB N="165" REF="113"> God magnify'd our office to labour on this day? Let us magnifie our office by this days-labour. <HI>Steadfa&s;t, immovea|ble, abounding in the Lords work</HI> upon the Lords day. That God who hath ble&s;&s;ed the day for our work, will ble&s;&s;e our work in the day.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Sabbath con&s;ider'd as Chri&s;ti|an, hath honour. Chri&s;tianity brings on dignity. <HI>Theodo&s;ius accounted him&s;elf more noble as he was a Chri&s;tian, then as he was an Emperour.</HI> Hence <HI>Luther</HI> pro|fe&s;&s;ed, <HI>He had rather be a Chri&s;tian beg|gar, then Heathen</HI> Alexander. Our Sab|bath is Chri&s;tian, and therefore excel|lent. The excellencie of our Chri&s;tian Sabbath may be &s;een by two &s;orts of things;
<LIST>
<ITEM>Some more Principal.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Some le&s;&s;e Principal.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The principall things that put a price upon the Sabbath, lie,
<LIST>
<ITEM>In the appointing of it, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>In the abyding of it.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>This day may appear precious, if we ponder
<LIST>
<ITEM>The per&s;on by whom, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The rea&s;on for why 'twas appointed.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. The per&s;on through whom this ap|pointment
<PB N="186" REF="114"> came, was Chri&s;t, and his In&s;titution.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> de temp. Serm. <HI>36.</HI></NOTE> To this <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> applies that prediction of the Prophet, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 118.24. <HI>This is the day which the Lord hath made, we will rejoyce and be glad therein.</HI> Je&s;us Chri&s;t him&s;elf &s;et out this Sab|bath-time. Chri&s;t in per&s;on, Chri&s;t in the Apo&s;tles.</P>
<P>THE LORD CHRIST,</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Coelum e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Chri&s;tus non patiantur hyperbolen:</NOTE>O how excellent is he? <HI>Chri&s;t and Heaven,</HI> (&s;ays <HI>Luther) in their prai&s;e can be no exce&s;&s;e.</HI> Too little we may &s;peak, never too much. All the excellencies of God and man meet in Chri&s;t. That then mu&s;t needs be excellent whereof Chri&s;t is the Author. That Child is nobly born which can call Chri&s;t Father.</P>
<P>The Sabbath derives its pedigree from Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2. The rea&s;on upon which this Day was ordained, was Chri&s;t in his Re&s;ur|rection. The Re&s;urrection of Chri&s;t was the fir&s;t degree of his exaltation. Had he not ri&s;en from the dead, he had never a&s;cended into heaven, never &s;at down at the right hand of God. And therefore his ri&s;ing day, may well be our re&s;ting day: that day on which Chri&s;t took the fir&s;t &s;tep to all his great honours, is an
<PB N="187" REF="114"> honourable day, and a day much to be honoured. God hath highly honour|ed this day;</P>
<P>As by converting on it the Souls of men,</P>
<P>So by rai&s;ing on this day the Body of his Son.</P>
<P N="2">2. We may &s;ee this days excellency in its permanency. As the Prie&s;thood of <HI>Melchizedeck</HI> was more excellent then the Prie&s;thood of <HI>Aaron,</HI> becau&s;e of its order for ever, <HI>Hebr.</HI> 7.17. So the Sab|bath of Chri&s;tians is more excellent then all the Sabbaths of the <HI>Jews,</HI> be|cau&s;e it continues. To this Sabbath it might be &s;aid in regard of all the <HI>Jew|i&s;h</HI> Sabbaths, <HI>They &s;hall peri&s;h, but thou remaine&s;t, and they &s;hall all wax old as doth a garment. As a ve&s;ture &s;halt thou roul them up, and they &s;hall be changed; but thou art the &s;ame, and thy years &s;hall not fail.</HI> Heb. 1.11, 12. To this day all the powers of earth &amp; hell &s;hall never put a period.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, we may look into the large dignity of this Day,
<LIST>
<ITEM>From the timing of it, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>From the naming of it.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. This day is &s;o tim'd, as is a help to its honour: 'Tis the fir&s;t day in the week. We have a rule, <HI>That the fir&s;t in
<PB N="188" REF="115"> every kind is more excellent then all the re&s;t,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> de civit, De. ili. <HI>11. Cypria.</HI> Serm. de Spir. S,</NOTE> Au&s;tin, <HI>Cyprian,</HI> and other of the Ancients much advance the excellency of the Sabbath from the circum&s;tance of time: That 'tis the &s;eventh Day: The number &s;even being mo&s;t perfect &amp; that which they &s;ay compri&s;es many my&s;te|ries of moment. But that which is more meet for us to con&s;ider, is the &s;ettling of our Chri&s;tian Sabbath upon the fir&s;t day of the week. <HI>Luke.</HI> 2.23. we read how 'twas <HI>written in the Law, that every Male that fir&s;t opened the womb, was called holy to the Lord:</HI> our Sabbath it is that day which fir&s;t opened the womb of time, that day which fir&s;t opens the womb of every week: and therefore may well be kept holy to the Lord, and be accounted honourable in the world. Whereas the <HI>Jewes</HI> Sabbath was upon the la&s;t, ours is upon the fir&s;t day of the week. So that the Jewi&s;h Sabbath might well &s;ay concerning the Chri&s;tian, as <HI>John</HI> Bapti&s;t of Chri&s;t, <HI>There comes one after me, that is to be pre|ferred before me:</HI> 'Tis more excellent as 'tis time.</P>
<P N="2">2. Our Sabbath as it is named, tran|&s;cends in excellency. <HI>Heb.</HI> 1.9. 'tis &s;aid
<PB N="189" REF="115"> of Chri&s;t in re&s;pect of the Angels: <HI>He hath obtained a more excellent name then they;</HI> &s;o may it be &s;aid of our Sabbath in re&s;pect of all the Judaicall Sabbaths, It hath obtained a more excellent name then they, it is called</P>
<P>THE LORDS DAY.</P>
<P>True, there is excellency in the name (Sabbath) as it &s;ignifies re&s;t. Re&s;t is the Centre to which all living creatures move. Re&s;t is the perfection and &s;ati&s;|faction of all creatures after their tyring and trouble&s;ome motions: But in this name excellencie more abounds,</P>
<P>THE LORDS DAY.</P>
<P>As it made much for the honour of <HI>Jacob</HI> when he had another name ad|ded, <HI>I&s;rael. Jacob</HI> &s;ignified, The &s;up|planter of weak man: <HI>I&s;rael</HI> &s;ignified, The prevailer with a &s;trong God. The latter the far more excellent name. This is the honour of the Sabbath, it hath another name, and the former was not like this la&s;t.</P>
<P>THE LORDS DAY.</P>
<P>There is admirable excellency in all that is called the Lords.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Lords Go&s;pel.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Lords People.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Lords Praier.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Lords &s;upper.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="1"><PB N="190" REF="116">1. <HI>The Lords Go&s;pel;]</HI> There is excel|lencie. The Law of God hath beauty, but the Go&s;pel excells in glory. The <HI>Jewi&s;h</HI> Rabbins were wont to &s;ay, That upon every letter of Gods Law hang Mountaines of admirable matter. But <HI>Luther</HI> of the Go&s;pel goes further, &s;aying, <HI>That the &s;horte&s;t line, and the lea&s;t letter thereof is more worth then all Earth and Heaven.</HI> The very Angels look out from Heavens Glory, &s;tooping down to &s;ee into the glory of the Go&s;|pell, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 1.12.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>The Lords people:]</HI> There is excellen|cie. They are the honour of the earth, the glory of the world, the ornaments of Townes and Cities. <HI>As one pearl</HI> (&s;ays <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tome) is more worth then a thou&s;and pebbles: So one pious man is more precious then ten thou&s;and &s;in|ners.</HI> The whole wicked world may &s;ay to a Saint, as the people of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> to <HI>Da|vid, Thou art worth ten thou&s;and of us,</HI> 2. <HI>Sam.</HI> 18.3. We may &s;ay of Saints in the world, as our Saviour &s;aid of the Li|lies of the field, <HI>Solomon</HI> in all his glory was not cloathed like one of the&s;e, <HI>Matth.</HI> 6.29.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>The Lords prayer;]</HI> There is ex|cellency.
<PB N="191" REF="116"> Some have called it, The Abridgement of the Bible; and others,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tertul.</HI> li. de orat. ca. <HI>1. Cypr.</HI> &s;er. de orat. Dom.</NOTE> The Epitome of the Go&s;pel. And &s;e|veral ob&s;erve, that though it be little for phra&s;e of words, yet it is great for matter, and &s;weet for order, pithy and precious in every part. A &s;hort prayer may be full of God, as there may be little of God in a prayer that is long. The Lords prayer is, as it were, a Bre|viary and <HI>Compendium</HI> of the great God.</P>
<LIST>
<HEAD>Infolded.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Gods worth, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mans wants</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="4">4. <HI>The Lords Supper;]</HI> There is excel|lency. 'Tis that Ordinance, wherein Saints the mo&s;t excellent of per&s;ons, and wherein faith the mo&s;t excellent of graces hath the highe&s;t activities. Here the precious blood of Chri&s;t, and the precious faith of Chri&s;tians meet.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Cypr.</HI> de coe Dom.</NOTE> <HI>Here faith</HI> (&s;ayes <HI>Cyprian) layes its mouth clo&s;e to the wounds of Chri&s;t, and &s;ucks in &s;in-killing, and &s;oul quickning blood.</HI> O ble&s;&s;ed be God! Thus 'tis evident what is the Lords is excellent: And is not the Lords day? Let us ob&s;erve,
<LIST>
<ITEM>All time from the Beginning was pre|cious.</ITEM>
<PB N="192" REF="117">
<ITEM>Go&s;pel-time is more precious then any before it.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The Lords day is the mo&s;t precious part of Go&s;pel-time. 'Twas a brave expre&s;&s;ion of <HI>Galeacius Garacciolus</HI> that <HI>Italian</HI> Marque&s;&s;e&punc; when a great &s;umme of money was offered him, to draw him to his own Popi&s;h Countrey and kindred: <HI>Let all their money peri&s;h with them, who account all the wealth of the world worth one dayes Communion with Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</HI> One Sabbath-dayes &s;ocie|ty with a Saviour ought to be of higher e&s;teem then all the honours of the earth. O let us not &s;ink down the dignity of this day in our hearts, but every way let us labour to lift up its Honour higher and higher: For
<LIST>
<ITEM>As 'tis &s;ad to deba&s;e it,</ITEM>
<ITEM>So to advance it is good.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. To deba&s;e and de&s;pi&s;e the Lords day is common now in our Nation. Men for the mo&s;t part make no more of this then of any other day, <HI>Cant.</HI> 5.9. <HI>What is thy beloved more then another beloved?</HI> &s;ay they to the Church extolling of Chri&s;t. Upon this &s;he fell to a more full di&s;covery of the dignities and excellencies of Chri&s;t. Some had
<PB N="193" REF="117"> need &s;et up Gods Sabbath-honour the more, there are &s;o many that &s;ay in their hearts, What is the day of the Sabbath more then another day? yea, and indeed it is no more, as many in their lives &s;infully make it. <HI>Dalilah</HI> pre|vailing upon <HI>Samp&s;on, he lo&s;t his locks and his &s;trength, and became like another man.</HI> The Devil with divers hath pre|vailed &s;o far again&s;t the Sabbath, that it hath lo&s;t its life and lu&s;tre, glory and honour, and is become like another day; which I am &s;ure is no &s;ign of good to come. Some &s;ay, that if the Sun which is the chief of planets be Eclip|&s;ed, it &s;ignifies great Commotions, Mutations, De&s;tructions. I dare &s;ay, that when the Sabbath which is the chief of dayes, is clouded and covered over with black opinions and practices, it intimates heavy evils to come. O how do men pollute that which God hath &s;anctified! and deba&s;e that day which God hath dignified! <HI>Act.</HI> 10.15. <HI>What God hath clean&s;ed, call not thou com|mon.</HI> And what God hath honoured O man, account not thou ba&s;e.</P>
<P N="2">2. To advance this day is its due, and our duty; And indeed could we in
<PB N="194" REF="118"> <HI>England</HI> but recover the Sabbaths ho|nour, that this Sabbath-Sun might &s;hine again in its beauty and lu&s;tre, and our Horizon be filled with the bright beames thereof, it would remove the fogs of filthy errors, prevent the inflict|ing of &s;ad calamities, regain the credit of contemned Ordinances, <HI>Joh.</HI> 12.32. as there the Lord of the Sabbath &s;aid. <HI>If I be lifted up, I will draw all men to me:</HI> So may the Sabbath of the Lord &s;ay, <HI>If I be lifted up, I will draw all to me.</HI> Then all the things of God &s;hall ri&s;e. As when Chri&s;t was ri&s;en, <HI>Matth.</HI> 27.52. <HI>Many bodies of Saints which were a&s;leep in their graves, aro&s;e and went into the holy City, &amp;c.</HI> Thus were the Chri|&s;tian Sabbath rai&s;ed, the whole body of Chri&s;tian Religion would be brought out of its grave, and many of Gods Saints that are as it were now a&s;leep upon the beds of &s;ad &s;educing errors, would ari&s;e and come forth to the holy &s;ervice of God. <HI>Heb.</HI> 11.35. 'tis &s;aid of &s;ome Mothers, <HI>that they received their dead children rai&s;ed to life again.</HI> O what joy would it be to poor Mini&s;ters, that they might receive again &s;ome of their &s;piritual children as alive from the
<PB N="195" REF="118"> dead! Such things would be, were Sabbaths rai&s;ed in their honour, that lye now under the worlds contempt. Indeed as the Lord in the Prophet &s;peaks, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 37.3. <HI>Son of man, can the&s;e dry bones live? And I an&s;wered, O Lord God, thou knowe&s;t. Then &s;aith the Lord, I will cau&s;e breath to enter, and the dead bones &s;hall live.</HI> May not the Lord &s;ay, Can my dead Sabbaths live? Can my dry Or|dinances be green, juicie, and &s;appy again? Lord, thou knowe&s;t. O would but God breath from above, and bring his Sabbaths up from below, then would come on that <HI>FIRST RES&V;R|RECTION!</HI> O that I might live to &s;ee &s;omewhat of this! As there hath been a certain day of the Lords Re&s;ur|rection: Oh that there might be a &s;peedy re&s;urrection of the Lords day! A day for the recovery of who&s;e life, all ought to labour. A day for the clearing of who&s;e honour, all ought to be earne&s;t. A day that above all dayes ought to be had in very high e&s;teem. This for the Excellency.</P>
<P N="3">3. Let us mark the Commodity that accompanies the well keeping of this Chri&s;tian Sabbath. That the profit may appear: Note,
<LIST>
<PB N="196" REF="119">
<ITEM>The Grounds for it, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Parts of it.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Viz.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Out of what it proceeds, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Unto what it extends.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The grounds from which profit by the Sabbath proceeds, are
<LIST>
<ITEM>Primary and antecedential,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Secondary and con&s;equential.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The antecedent grounds through which proceeds Sabbath-profit for &s;e|veral purpo&s;es, are
<LIST>
<ITEM>The plea&s;ure of God for it, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The ble&s;&s;ing of God upon it.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="22" TYPE="section">
<P N="1">1. The plea&s;ure of God;] This brings out abundant benefit by the Sabbath. This makes the Sabbath-Tree to bear plenty of precious fruit. As if we &s;hall enquire upon what account, and from what cau&s;e there comes &s;uch a conflu|ence of all good to be gathered in, and gained by Chri&s;t the Lord of the Sab|bath? the Apo&s;tle makes it plain, to proceed from the good plea&s;ure of God, <HI>Colo&s;.</HI> 1.19 <HI>It plea&s;ed the Father, that in him &s;hould all fulne&s;&s;e dwell:</HI> So if any ask after the rea&s;on, why multitudes of mercies meet in the Sabbath of the Lord? 'tis becau&s;e it &s;eemed good in Gods &s;ight: It plea&s;ed the Father to fill this day with all fulne&s;&s;e of good,
<PB N="197" REF="119"> fitting for glorious de&s;igns.</P>
<P N="2">2. The ble&s;&s;ing of God;] This brings benefit and good in abundance; from the beginning of the World, God &s;anctified this day, and ble&s;&s;ed it, <HI>Gen.</HI> 2. Sanctified,] that is, &s;eparated the day from common things. Ble&s;&s;ed,] that is, God con&s;ecrated the day to &s;peciall ends. <HI>Junius</HI> ob&s;erves,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Juni. <HI>in Gen.</HI> 2.</NOTE> <HI>That the Sab|bath be&s;ides the common ble&s;&s;ing it had with other dayes by the law of Nature, it had a &s;pecial ble&s;&s;ing above other dayes from the Love of God.</HI> Gods ble&s;&s;ing on his Sabbath,
<LIST>
<ITEM>As 'tis abounding</ITEM>
<ITEM>So 'tis abyding.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>As the precious portion God hath ble&s;&s;ed his Sabbath with,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Is double:</ITEM>
<ITEM>So &s;table.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Such a Sabbath-ble&s;&s;ing as God will never rever&s;e: But as <HI>I&s;aac</HI> &s;aid of his &s;on, <HI>I have ble&s;&s;ed him, and he &s;hall be ble&s;|&s;ed:</HI> So &s;aies God of his Sabbath, <HI>I have ble&s;&s;ed it, and it &s;hall be ble&s;&s;ed.</HI></P>
<P>Whence was it that <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> was as a fruitful bough, who&s;e branches run over the wall, &amp;c. but that ble&s;&s;ing that was upon him from his Father above
<PB N="198" REF="120"> all his brethren? <HI>Gene&s;.</HI> 49.22, 26. And hence is it that the Sabbath in the Tree of the week is the mo&s;t fruitfull bough outrunning the re&s;t of the daies in doing good; becau&s;e beyond all the other daies it hath the ble&s;&s;ing of God.</P>
<P>The &s;ub&s;equent grounds of Sabbath-Benefit are:
<LIST>
<ITEM>The promi&s;e of God to it, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The pre&s;ence of God with it.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. The promi&s;e of God,] This produ|ces profit in the day. Precious promi|&s;es God hath made to men minding his Sabbath,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Teneamus fideli&s;&s;imum debitorem, quia tene|mus mi&s;cri|cordi&s;&s;imum promi&s;&s;orem. <HI>Aug.</HI> in P&s;al. <HI>32.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Levit.</HI> 26.2, 3, 4, 5. <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 56.4, 5, 6. <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 58, 12, 13, 14. <HI>Jerem.</HI> 17.24, 25, 26. Let us but all here &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;ider,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Gods bountifulne&s;&s;e in making pro|mi&s;es,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And Gods faithfulne&s;&s;e in keeping promi&s;es made.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>And none need marvel if mercies by multitudes meet in, and march out upon the Sabbath-day.</P>
<P>The work of Gods promi&s;es, &s;ets a promi&s;ing God awork.</P>
<P N="2">2. The pre&s;ence of God,] This is pro|ductive of Sabbath-profit. As the An|gel
<PB N="199" REF="120"> &s;aid to <HI>Gideon, Judges</HI> 6.12. <HI>The Lord is with thee thou mighty man of va|lour;</HI> and hence he did great things, ver. 14, 15. thus may it be &s;aid to the Sab|bath,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sicut <HI>Maria</HI> virgo inter omnes muli|eres princi|patum te|net. ita inter caeteros dies haec di|es omnium dierum Ma|ter e&s;t. <HI>Hi|eron.</HI> de re|&s;urrect. Do|mini.</NOTE> The Lord is with thee thou migh|ty day of Honour; and no wonder if thereon great things be done: or as the Angel &s;aluted the virgin <HI>Mary, Luke</HI> 1.28. <HI>Hail, thou art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee. Ble&s;&s;ed art thou among women.</HI> O the wonder of mercy that her womb brought forth! And thus may we be&s;peak the Lords Day with a <HI>Hail,</HI> holy Sabbath, <HI>thou art highly fa|voured, the Lord is with thee, and ble&s;&s;ed art thou among</HI> daies. And O the ble&s;|&s;ed births that are from this womb! And O the abundant benefits that are in and by this Day upon the&s;e grounds!</P>
<P>But I &s;hall pa&s;&s;e on to the parts of the profit, and di&s;cover where in the Sabbath-day is &s;o profitable; viz.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Again&s;t Evill,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And for good.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Fir&s;t, great is the profit of Gods precious Sabbath,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Again&s;t evill things, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Again&s;t evill ones.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<PB N="200" REF="121">
<P>Evill things.] Gods holy Sabbath is good again&s;t
<LIST>
<ITEM>The evill of &s;in, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The evill of puni&s;hment.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Fir&s;t, the Sabbath it is good again&s;t the evill of &s;in: <HI>Iniquity</HI> now <HI>abounds,</HI> but O how would &s;in &s;uperabound were this world &s;et Sabbath-free! Sin that is vigorous all the week, may be upon the Sabbath-day &s;ubdued. <HI>Exod</HI> 14.13. Mo&s;es <HI>&s;aid unto</HI> I&s;rael, <HI>Stand &s;till, &amp; &s;ee the &s;alvation the Lord will &s;hew to day: for that very day God drowned the</HI> Egyptians <HI>in the water of the Red-&s;ea,</HI> &amp;c. The Sabbath is the day wherein God &s;aves &s;oules from their &s;ins, drowning their corruptions this day in the Red-&s;ea of Chri&s;ts ble&s;&s;ed blood. Or if &s;in does not immediately die; yet it may re|ceive &s;uch a Sabbath-wound, as it &s;hall never recover, but as the hou&s;e of <HI>Saul</HI> wax weaker and weaker, till all comes to an utter end.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Sabbath 'tis good again&s;t the evil of puni&s;hment, and all kinds of ca|lamities. When Judgements de&s;olating are up and down, O 'tis &s;afe being in a Sabbath-&s;anctuary: when enemies are black and bloody, the Sabbath of God
<PB N="201" REF="121"> will bring the God of the Sabbath to be on our &s;ide. <HI>Luther</HI> reports of a Bi&s;hop of <HI>Magdenburg,</HI> who being told that a Duke of <HI>Saxony</HI> prepared warre again&s;t him, an&s;wered, <HI>My care &s;hall be to reform the Church and amend what is ami&s;&s;e in the Sabbaths and &s;ervice of God, and God will fight for me: Which when the Duke heard, he disbanded his forces, &s;aying, he would not contend with that man, that engaged God in his quarrel.</HI> Let who will re&s;olve warre again&s;t us, this dayes reforming, would prevent the Lands ruining. Indeed while Reli|gion is langui&s;hing, Nations are peri&s;h|ing; while Sabbaths are &s;inking, Cities are &s;haking: O what a controver&s;ie hath God! O what a fire did God threaten within the walls of <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> for the breach of his ble&s;&s;ed day! <HI>Jer.</HI> 17.27. Breakings of Sabbaths, brings burning of Cities. And the be&s;t way for the &s;afe keeping of Cities, is the well keeping of Sabbaths.</P>
<P N="2">2. The &s;anctification of the Sabbath is of &s;ingular u&s;e again&s;t evil ones;
<LIST>
<ITEM>As the Devil,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And Antichri&s;t.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Much good again&s;t the Devil may this day be done,
<LIST>
<PB N="202" REF="122">
<ITEM>To the delivering from him, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the conquering of him.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>O the rare re&s;cues of &s;ouls from the power of Satan upon the Sabbath day! <HI>Luk.</HI> 13.16. We &s;ee <HI>a poor woman eigh|teen years bound by the Divel, was upon the Sabbath-day loo&s;ed from her bond.</HI> Some under the &s;ore bondage of Satan twenty, thirty, fourty years, have been delivered upon the Lords day. God hath made heavy chains to fall off, and Iron gates to fly open, which hath put the Jaylor the Divel in a rage to &s;ee up|on the Sabbath &s;ouls pulled out of his pri&s;on, and &s;inners &s;et free from his fetters. And O the &s;ucce&s;&s;eful Battels that have been &s;ought again&s;t Satan upon this day of the Sabbath! We read, <HI>Jo&s;h.</HI> 10. <HI>That when five Kings came out in Battel again&s;t</HI> I&s;rael, <HI>there was a day the Sun &s;tood &s;till, and the Moon &s;tayed at the command of Jo&s;hua.</HI> And &s;ayes the text, <HI>There was no day like that before it, nor after it, that the Lord &s;o hearkened to the voyce of man; for the Lord fought for</HI> I&s;rael, <HI>and they had that day a very great victory,</HI> ver&s;. 13, 14, &amp;c. Thus upon the Lords day combinations of Devils have been broken and bea|ten;
<PB N="203" REF="122"> no day like this, wherein God hearkens to the voyce of man, Heaven and Earth &s;tand &s;till, God fights, and the Divel falls, <HI>Luk.</HI> 10.18. 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 10.4, 5.</P>
<P>Yea, and much good may be done this day again&s;t Antichri&s;t, and all his Adherents, both by
<LIST>
<ITEM>The preachings of Chri&s;ts Go&s;pel,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And the prayings of Gods people.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>This dayes preaching of the Go&s;pel brings on <HI>Babylons</HI> fall, <HI>Rev.</HI> 14.6. <HI>An Angel flies in the mid&s;t of heaven, having the everla&s;ting Go&s;pel to preach to men that dwell on the earth.</HI> And what followes? v. 7, 8. <HI>Another Angel, &s;aying,</HI> Babylon <HI>is fallen, is fallen.</HI> The words are doubled, to foretell a double fall of <HI>Babylon,</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>The one Spiritual,</ITEM>
<ITEM>The other Literal.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><HI>Babylons</HI> &s;piritual fall, viz. in the hearts of Princes and people, this is wrought by the Word.</P>
<P><HI>Babylons</HI> literal fall, viz. in its vi|&s;ible pomp and power, this &s;hall be done by the &s;word. The former falling makes way for the latter. The more purely the Word is preached, and the more clearly the Go&s;pel &s;hines, the
<PB N="204" REF="123"> more the My&s;terious workings of that man of &s;in is made manife&s;t, and the more he lo&s;es in the minds of men, 2 <HI>The&s;.</HI> 2.8. <HI>Then &s;hall that wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord &s;hall con&s;ume with the &s;pirit of his mouth, and de&s;troy with the brightne&s;&s;e of his coming.</HI> It notes the coming of Chri&s;t in the clearne&s;&s;e of the Go&s;pel, to ca&s;t down Antichri&s;t, and call home the <HI>Jewes. Amen, Lord Je&s;us, come quickly.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Sabbath-dayes prayings of the peo|ple of God, this brings <HI>Babylon</HI> down. <HI>Luther was wont to call his and the Chur|ches Teares and Prayers their great Guns and Cannons.</HI> Upon the Lords Day the Lords people play with their Cannons agan&s;t the walls of <HI>Babylon</HI> and make irrepairable batteries and breaches, <HI>Jo|&s;hua</HI> 6. <HI>Every day the army of</HI> I&s;rael <HI>went round the city of</HI> Jericho, <HI>but on the Seventh day they compa&s;&s;ed the city &s;even times. And at the &s;eventh time the Prie&s;ts blew the trumpets, and the people &s;houted; and then the walls fell, and the City was ta|ken.</HI> Every day the Saints of God in their &s;ighs and &s;uits &s;hould be&s;iege <HI>Ba|bylon,</HI> but on the Sabbath day be&s;et it &s;even times: Mini&s;ters preach, and peo|ple
<PB N="205" REF="123"> pray. Upon this day all the &s;oul|diers of Je&s;us Chri&s;t mu&s;t march out of their quarters into the open fields to fight the battel of the Lord again&s;t Satan and <HI>Babylon,</HI> Hell and <HI>Rome:</HI> and when they be in prayer fervent, then they are in the heat of battel; then &s;hout, &s;hout, this would make walls fall. O even upon this account let us keep up Sabbaths, and therein cry mightily, <HI>Jerem.</HI> 50.14, 15. <HI>Put your &s;elves in aray ag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">in&s;t</HI> Babylon <HI>round about, all that bend the bowe, &s;hoot at her, &s;pare for no arrowes: &s;hout again&s;t her round about, her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down.</HI> Upon this day let all Gods people in all parts, put them&s;elves in aray again&s;t <HI>Rome,</HI> My&s;ticall <HI>Babylon;</HI> pour out teares, put up prayers, all Artillery-Chri&s;tians, bend the bowe, &s;hoot, &s;pare for no arrowes; cry again and again. With the hands of the Prayer of faith lay hold, as <HI>Samp|&s;on</HI> upon the pillars of the great <HI>Phili|&s;tine-hou&s;e, bowing him&s;elf with all his might, &amp; then down it fell,</HI> Judges 16.30. O let us every Lords day bow our &s;elves with all our might. 2. <HI>Samuel.</HI> 17.13. Coun&s;ell was given to <HI>Ab&s;alom</HI> that if <HI>David</HI> were got into a City, all <HI>I&s;rael</HI>
<PB N="206" REF="124"> &s;hould bring ropes to that City, and draw it into the River, till not one &s;mall &s;tone be found there. Is not Antichri&s;t got into a City? Every Sabbath let all Gods <HI>I&s;rael</HI> bring their ropes, pull hard by holy prayer, draw all into the River, till not a &s;tone be left upon a &s;tone. No marvell Antichri&s;t and the divell &s;eeks to throw down Sabbaths; for Sab|baths will throw down the divel and Antichri&s;t.</P>
<P>Again, great is the profit of this pre|cious Sabbath:
<LIST>
<ITEM>For good things towards men, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>For men towards good things.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Fir&s;t, this brings on things that much concerns mens good,
<LIST>
<ITEM>In Church,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And in State.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Let Sabbaths be well ob&s;erved, and we &s;hall &s;ee
<LIST>
<ITEM>Good Governours to be obeyed, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Good obedience to Governours.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>To keep holy the Sabbath is a &s;ure way to &s;ettle a &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of Gover|nours that are good, <HI>Jerem.</HI> 17.24, 25, 26. <HI>If ye diligently hearken to me, &s;aith the Lord, and hollow the Sabbath-day, Then &s;hall there enter into the gates of this City
<PB N="207" REF="124"> KINGS and PRINCES &s;itting upon the throne of</HI> David, <HI>riding in Chari|ots and on hor&s;es; they and their Princes, the men of</HI> Judah <HI>and inhabitants of</HI> Jeru&s;alem, <HI>and this City &s;hall remain for ever.</HI> This &s;peaks good things to the State. <HI>And they &s;hall come from the Cities of</HI> Judah, <HI>and the places about</HI> Jeru&s;alem, <HI>and from the Lana of</HI> Benjamin, <HI>&amp;c. bringing burnt-offerings and Sacrifices of prai&s;e unto the hou&s;e of the Lord.</HI> This &s;peaks good to the Church, and all upon this ac|count,
<Q>The well keping the Sabbath.</Q></P>
<P>If then in Church and State we would have things go well, and do de&s;ire a &s;e|ries of &s;uch &s;ettled as may govern for God, let us &s;ee to the Sanctification of the Sabbath. God he makes breaches in mens Government, when men make breaches in Gods Commandement. The way to keep good Government whole, is to keep Gods Sabbath Ho|ly.</P>
<P>Yea, this will bring on obediential re|&s;pects to governours that are good. Peo|ple that profane and pollute Gods Sab|baths, will contemne and reject good Rulers. That is a &s;ad ca&s;e, <HI>Lam.</HI> 2.6. <HI>The
<PB N="208" REF="125"> Lord hath de&s;troyed the places of the pub|like a&s;&s;emblys, he hath cau&s;ed the Sab|baths to be forgotten in</HI> Zion, <HI>and hath de|&s;pi&s;ed in the indignation of his anger, the KING and the PRIEST.</HI> [That is, God, then as a te&s;timony of his terri|ble di&s;plea&s;ure, did &s;uffer &s;uch to be de|&s;pi&s;ed.</P>
<P>Where Sabbaths are not remembred,</P>
<P>There Superious are not regard|ed.</P>
<P>None &s;o &s;oone give to <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> the things that are <HI>Cae&s;ars,</HI> as they who fir&s;t give to God the things that are Gods. Remarkable is Gods Method in the ten Commandements: <HI>Remember, the Sab|bath:]</HI> and then the next, <HI>Honour thy Fa|ther,]</HI> whether they be
<LIST>
<ITEM>Natural,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Civil, or,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Spirituall.</ITEM>
</LIST> Fathers.</P>
<P>The way to honour the Father, is fir&s;t to remember the Sabbath. No marvell if &s;uch as make little of the fourth Com|mandement, make nothing of the fifth. Indeed none will make more of the fifth Commandement, then they that make mo&s;t of the fourth. We &s;hall find it clear,</P>
<PB N="209" REF="125">
<P>That &s;uch as mo&s;t imbrace Gods Com|mandements,</P>
<P>They will be&s;t obey Gods Vice-ge|rents.</P>
<P N="2">2. The men, this &s;anctifying the Sab|bath is profitable for, are
<LIST>
<ITEM>Sinners, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Saints.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Men that remain in their finfull e&s;tate, the Sabbath is good,
<LIST>
<ITEM>For their conforming in &s;ome part, &amp;</ITEM>
<ITEM>For their transforming through|out.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Through Sabbath-day-impre&s;&s;ions &s;ome men bad are brought to the out|ward performance of religious actions. As <HI>Herod</HI> hearing <HI>John</HI> Bapti&s;t preach (probably at &s;uch appointed times) was &s;o far wrought upon, that her eve|renced <HI>John,</HI> and did many good things, <HI>Mark</HI> 6.20. If Sabbaths were laid a&s;ide, men would not have the face of vi&s;ible profe&s;&s;ion, nor &s;o much as keep the tongues of Chri&s;tians, but turn into ab&s;olute Athei&s;me, yea, bruti&s;h Bar|bari&s;me, forgetting the Lord to be God, and them&s;elves to be men. Chri|&s;tianity would &s;oon cea&s;e, and not long after humanity &s;ink. The Name of God,
<PB N="210" REF="126"> the knowledge of Chri&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, civilities among men, are all kept up by a Sab|bath-&s;upport.</P>
<P>Yea, be&s;ides &s;uch more common com|modities, &s;ome by Sabbaths-meanes are brought to a &s;oul-&s;aving change. In that gla&s;&s;e of the Go&s;pel which this day is held up, &s;ome <HI>beholding the glory of the Lord, are changed from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord,</HI> 2 Cor. 3.18. This is the day where|in the net is ca&s;t out, that drawes many to &s;hore. Yea, fi&s;hes that could never be caught, are brought in by a Sabbath-tyde. Through the warme beames of a Sabbath-&s;un &s;ome new creatures are in|gendred, that were before but as filthy dung. Such ciences of &s;aving graces are graffed into the &s;oules of &s;ome upon the Sabbath-day, as that after they prove trees bearing the be&s;t fruit, who were before but as Crab-tree-&s;tocks.</P>
<P>Men that are removed into a &s;ancti|fied e&s;tate, the Sabbath does exceeding|ly concern their good:
<LIST>
<ITEM>That they which are fallen may &s;tand, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>That they which &s;tand, may not fall.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Such as are fallen through &s;in are &s;et
<PB N="211" REF="126"> up through Sabbath-helps. The helps of a Sabbath have recovered decayed Chri&s;tians, impoveri&s;hed places and per&s;ons have been relieved by Sabbath-Collections, and &s;o by Sabbath-peti|tions, have &s;ome had &s;weet relief who were &s;unk low in their &s;ouls e&s;tate. Nothing better by way of means, then holy Ordinances upon the Lords day to recover &s;oul-Con&s;umptions. Some that have been as <HI>Aarons</HI> dry Rod, yet through this dayes ble&s;&s;ing, have blo&s;|&s;om'd and born abundance after of the be&s;t fruit. <HI>Mark</HI> 2. we &s;ee our Saviour upon the Sabbath day healing of a man that had a withered hand. O how many withered hearts bath Chri&s;t upon the Sabbath cured? How many ca&s;t down by the Divel, hath the Lord upon this day rai&s;ed, <HI>Matth.</HI> 12.11. <HI>And Je&s;us &s;aid unto them, What man among you, ha|ving his &s;heep fallen into a pit, will not pull it out on the Sabbath day?</HI> Out of deep pits of Apo&s;ta&s;ie the Lord hath pulled poor relap&s;ed Saints upon the Sabbath day. 'Twas upon this Lords day that <HI>Paul</HI> rai&s;ed <HI>Eutichus</HI> fallen down from the third loft, <HI>Act.</HI> 20. O how many
<PB N="212" REF="127"> in our dayes are fallen from the third loft, lamentably lap&s;ed,
<LIST>
<ITEM>In judgement,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Affection, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Practice!</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Yet we hope that in &s;ome of them there is &s;ome life left, and that the Lord will ere long rai&s;e and recover them through tht benefit of this ble&s;&s;ed day. Others that have not yet fallen, the Sabbath is of &s;ingular u&s;e to &s;ettle them fa&s;t. 'Tis conceived by &s;ound Au|thors from &s;everal grounds, that our fir&s;t Parents fell from their created In|nocency, upon the &s;ixth day of the week, the very &s;ame day wherein God had made them: Should they have &s;tood up, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed out the &s;ervice of the en&s;uing Sabbath, they would have been more &s;ettled in their obedience, and better confirmed for their continu|ance; but Satan &s;ubtilly a&s;&s;aults them before the Sabbath, or the &s;eventh day comes, and &s;o more ea&s;ily were they conquered, and ca&s;t down. The Sabbath with the &s;ervice thereof is &s;oul-quickning, Saint-&s;trengthening. The Chri&s;tian Sabbath is the main &s;inew of
<PB N="213" REF="127"> Chri&s;tian Religion; if this be &s;topt or ob&s;tructed, and vital blood does not well pa&s;&s;e, all the parts weaken, wi|ther, wa&s;te and die: but if all pa&s;&s;es well in Sabbath-veines, then all grows and gathers &s;trength, and is more vigo|rous, lively, and la&s;ting. Sabbaths &s;erve to make the Saints of God more pure, perfect, and permanent. That's holy which the Sabbath &s;anctifies, and that is &s;trong which rhe Sabbath ratifies, and that is ble&s;&s;ed upon which pa&s;&s;es the ble&s;&s;ing of the Sabbath. Some Collect from <HI>Levit.</HI> 22. &amp; 27. that the Lamb appointed for the Pa&s;chal &s;acri|fice, was not allowable before it was eight dayes old: And &s;ome of the Rab|bins render this rea&s;on, becau&s;e nothing in the world was to be reputed per|fect, untill a Sabbath had pa&s;&s;ed over it; but then was a thing clean, compleat, and ble&s;&s;ed, when it had gone under the ble&s;&s;ing of a Sabbath. Yea, &s;uch is the benefit of this ble&s;&s;ed day, that as it brings all things to be ble&s;&s;ed to us: &s;o it brings us to be in all things ble&s;&s;ed, <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 56.2. Yea, all things that concern our good, not onely for time, but eter|nity, are brought in at this Sabbath-door,
<PB N="214" REF="128"> <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 56.5. As <HI>Caleb</HI> gave his daughter the upper and the lower &s;prings: &s;o God hath given his day the good things both of Earth and Heaven. Thus the careful keeping of Chri&s;tian Sabbath is profitable.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, the Lords day duly kept, is delectable. For the delights and com|forts that do accompany the carefull keeping of this holy day, con&s;ider
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both the per&s;ons they are to,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And the properties they are of.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. The per&s;ons to whom the Lords day well kept is a delight, are,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Superiour, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Inferiour.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Per&s;ons &s;uperiour that herein take plea&s;ure, are
<LIST>
<ITEM>God, and his</ITEM>
<ITEM>Holy Angels.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="23" TYPE="section">
<P N="1">1. God him&s;elf [Father, Son, and holy Gho&s;t] take herein great delight. A Sabbath well &s;pent,
<LIST>
<ITEM>As it is formidable to the Devil,</ITEM>
<ITEM>So 'tis acceptable to God.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>We go from Sabbath-day-duties, Prayer well made, Sermons well heard, and Sacraments well received (&s;ayes <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tome</HI>) as Lyons breathing fire,
<PB N="215" REF="128"> terrible to the Devils them&s;elves. <HI>But that which is bitterly di&s;plea&s;ing to the De|vil, is mo&s;t &s;weetly plea&s;ing to God.</HI> So <HI>Calvin</HI> expounds that place of the Pro|phet <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 58.13. <HI>Thou &s;halt call the Sab|bath a delight.</HI> Or <HI>[Delights]</HI> in the plural, as that worthy Interpreter ren|ders it from the Hebrew, and refers it not to men, but to God, &s;aying, <HI>That the right ob&s;ervation of the Sabbath is [the delights of the Lord,] nothing to God more grateful.</HI> And indeed no le&s;&s;e from the place appears; <HI>Thou &s;halt call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, HONO&V;RABLE, and &s;halt ho|nour him.</HI> The Prophet &s;eems to &s;et down a double rea&s;on, why the Sabbath &s;hould be the delights of the Lord, viz.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>'Tis the holy of the Lord, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>'Tis the honour of the Lord.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>That &s;ure is the delight of the Lord, which is the holy of the Lord. A holy God cannot but delight in a holy day. That which is &s;o &s;uitable to him, mu&s;t needs be acceptable with him. And that which is the Lords honour, is cer|tainly the Lords delight. The Sabbath it is the honour of God di&s;played;
<PB N="216" REF="129">
'tis the great Engine God moves in this world, to make out his honour. As God hath honoured this day by making it holy for us: &s;o we much honour God by keeping it holy to him. What is his honour, is his plea&s;ure.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Angels of God are greatly delighted to &s;ee Sabbaths ob&s;erved; which may ari&s;e from a double advan|tage, viz.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>To them&s;elves, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>To others.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Through our Sabbath-day-exerci&s;es Angels do much advantage them&s;elves, in that their knowledge comes hereby con&s;tantly to encrea&s;e. <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> well ob&s;erves, that the Angels of heaven have,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both their Morning, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Al&s;o their Evening-knowledge.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Their morning-knowledge;] This they have by Creation from the Worlds beginning; as &s;oon as they were made, they were able knowingly to contem|plate God, heavens glory, and their own felicities.</P>
<P>Their evening-knowledge;] This they have by in&s;pection and diligent ob&s;er|vation of the affairs of the Church,
<PB N="217" REF="129"> and My&s;teries of the Go&s;pel made manife&s;t in the end of the World, <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 3.10. 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 1.12. Tho&s;e Go&s;pel-di&s;|coveries of Chri&s;t upon the Lords day the Angels delight fully to look into, and enlarge their knowledge by.</P>
<P N="2">2. Through Sabbath-day-exerci&s;es Angels &s;ee great advantage to others, and this makes the day their delight. This being the day wherein lo&s;t Goats are found, &s;trayed &s;heep are brought home, and prodigal &s;ons return to their Fathers hou&s;e. O the mu&s;ik it makes in heaven, and joy among the Angels of God, <HI>Luk.</HI> 15. <HI>Luk.</HI> 2. we &s;ee what re|joycing was among the Angels upon the day of Chri&s;ts Birth, &s;inging, <HI>Glory be to God, good will to men. Tydings of great joy, To you is born this day, in the City of Da|vid, a Saviour which is Chri&s;t the Lord.</HI> If Angels reioyced at the day when Chri&s;t is born to men; do they not rejoyce on the day wherein men are born to Chri&s;t?<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ut hom<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nes na&s;cerentur ex Deo; primo ex ip&s;is na|tus e&s;t Deus. <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> in Joan. c. <HI>2.</HI></NOTE> The very end (as <HI>Au|&s;tin</HI> ob&s;erves) why God was fir&s;t born of men, was that after men might be born of God. Therefore Angels who rejoyced at the other, may well rejoyce at this. Yea, Angels who are pre&s;ent
<PB N="218" REF="130"> in the publike A&s;&s;emblies of Gods Saints, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 11.10. not only to ob&s;erve, but to a&s;&s;i&s;t them in Sabbath day-du|ties; O how much is it Angels delight, to find us this day fervent in praying, pain|ful in preaching, diligent in hearing, &amp;c?</P>
<P>Per&s;ons inferiour that herein find plea&s;ure, are
<LIST>
<ITEM>Faithful Mini&s;ters, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Faithful Chri&s;tians.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. To Mini&s;ters that are faithful, the Sabbath is a day of &s;weet delight. Upon the Lords day labouring, Either they have herein their de&s;ired &s;ucce&s;&s;e: Or they have not that &s;ucce&s;&s;e herein they do de&s;ire.</P>
<P>Sometimes God gives them good &s;ucce&s;&s;e in their Sabbath-Day-endea|vous, that is their delight. <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> ha|ving preached an excellent &s;ermon, &s;ome of his hearers thinking to plea&s;e him with their applau&s;e, fell into his high prai&s;es; the good man &s;ighed, &s;aying, Alas, the&s;e are but leaves, it is fruit we delight in. The peoples fruit and profit is the Mini&s;ters delight and plea&s;ure. Let a faithful Mini&s;ter meet with never &s;o many mole&s;tations all the week, yet if upon the Sabbath God pro&s;pers, and
<PB N="215" REF="130"> the peoples profit, lo this is his de|light and comfort, this his crown and joy. <HI>John</HI> 16. it is &s;aid of a Mother, <HI>&s;he forgets her pain and travels for joy that a man-child is born into the world:</HI> Thus a good Mini&s;ter forgets all his week-day-difficulties and di&s;courage|ments in the world, for joy that a &s;oul on the Sabbath is born again to God. And if they have not &s;uch &s;ucce&s;&s;e, yet the day of their labour is the day of their delight, 2, <HI>Cor</HI> 12.15. <HI>I will ve|ry gladly &s;pend and be &s;pent for your &s;oules, though the more abundantly I love you, the le&s;&s;e I be loved.</HI></P>
<P>Here the Apo&s;tle in all his Mini&s;terial paines &s;eemes to have poore &s;ucce&s;&s;e, cold encouragement.</P>
<P>Little love for great labour.</P>
<P>Yet for the de&s;ired good of &s;ouls he gladly, yea very gladly &s;pends him&s;elf, &amp; is &s;pent. Faithfull Mini&s;ters if they find good &s;ucce&s;&s;e of their Sabbath-&s;ervice, then they rejoyce, becau&s;e they have a &s;ure reward from God. If upon the &s;ervice of the Sabbath they have no &s;uch &s;ucce&s;&s;e, yet they can rejoyce, be|cau&s;e they have a&s;ure reward with God, <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 49.4. <HI>I have laboured in vain, I have
<PB N="220" REF="131"> &s;pent my &s;trength for nought, yet S&V;RE|LY my Judgement is with the Lord, &amp; my REWARD with my GOD.</HI> Ver&s;. 5. <HI>Though</HI> I&s;rael <HI>be not gathered, yet &s;hall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord.</HI> If <HI>I&s;rael</HI> be gathered, then are we glorious in the eyes of men. If <HI>I&s;rael</HI> be not gathered, yet are we <HI>glorious in the eyes of God,</HI> who looks more to our &s;incere intent in our work,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nos octav&acirc; die (quae ip|&s;a prima e&s;t) perfecti Sabbeti fe|&s;tivitate lae|tamur. <HI>Hi|lar.</HI> Prolog. in P&s;al. pag. <HI>335.</HI></NOTE> then at the &s;ucce&s;&s;eful event of our work. We may well therefore make our labouring day, our delighting day.</P>
<P>The day of our greate&s;t paines, the Day of our &s;weete&s;t Plea|&s;ure.</P>
<P N="2">2. To Chri&s;tians that are fruitful, the Lords Day is a day of large delight. This is the day which the Lord hath made, <HI>we will rejoyce and be glad therein.</HI> P&s;al. 118.24. As there is not a day, which the Lord hath not made: So there is not a day, wherein Saints may not be glad; but as the Lord hath made this <HI>DAY</HI> to differ from all the re&s;t; &s;o &s;aints may be otherwi&s;e glad on this day, then at any other times. Which will be evident if we con&s;ider,</P>
<P N="2">2. The properties of Sabbath-joyes as to Gods Saints,
<LIST>
<PB N="221" REF="131">
<ITEM>They are
<LIST>
<ITEM>The &s;afe&s;t, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;weete&s;t.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>They are
<LIST>
<ITEM>The firme&s;t, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The fulle&s;t joyes.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. The&s;e are the &s;afe&s;t joyes.] Take week-day-delights, as in worldly matters, and ordinarily there is a deadly hook within a plea&s;ant bait. Our Mother <HI>Eve,</HI> Gen. 3. look|ed upon the fruit of the forbidden tree, and it was plea&s;ant for her eye.</P>
<P>Ai, Ai, but that which was plea&s;ant for her &s;ight, it was perillous for her &s;oul. It was but week-day-plea&s;ure in a Garden-tree: had &s;he continued in|nocent, and ta&s;ted of Sabbath-day-de|lights in a glorious God, of that fruit &s;he might have eate, and at that Fountain &s;he might have drunk &s;afe|ly.</P>
<P N="2">2. The&s;e are the &s;weete&s;t joyes.] Week|day-&s;ports in lawful delights, are but as pills rolled up in Sugar, bitter-&s;weet, &s;weet without, &amp; bitter within. As the Prophets Book that was as honey in the mouth, and as gall in the belly. The&s;e earthly plea&s;ures are as garden-Ro&s;es,
<PB N="222" REF="132"> which as they have their plea&s;ant leaves; &s;o they have their pricking &s;talks. Whereas true Sabbath-delights are throughout &s;weet. Some bitter drops may po&s;&s;ibly fall in them, but they are not properly of them.</P>
<P>For as there is &s;altne&s;&s;e in every drop of Sea-water; So there is &s;weetne&s;&s;e in every dram of true Sabbath-com|fort.</P>
<P N="3">3. The&s;e are the firme&s;t joyes.] Unto &s;inful men their week-delights are weak delights, that ri&s;e and &s;oone fall, that &s;pring up and &s;oone wither away. One bla&s;t of Gods di&s;plea&s;ure it blowes out tho&s;e Candle-comforts: <HI>One drop of a troubled con&s;cience</HI> (&s;ayes <HI>Luther) &s;wal|lowes up a Sea of worldly joy.</HI> Whereas to Gods Saints Sabbath-delights are &s;u|rer delights, &s;table and &s;trong.</P>
<Q><L>As the &s;trength of the Lord is their joy,</L>
<L>So the joy of the Lord is their &s;trength.</L>
<L>Their delights in the Sabbath of the Lord,</L>
<L>Is by delighting in the Lord of the Sabbath.</L></Q>
<P><HI>I&s;ay</HI> 58.13. <HI>Thou &s;halt not do thy plea+&s;ure
<PB N="223" REF="132"> on my holy day, but call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable, and &s;halt honour him, not doing thine own wayes, nor &s;peaking thine own words.</HI> What then? <HI>Then &s;halt thou delight thy &s;elf in the Lord. I will cau&s;e thee to ride upon high places, and feed thee with the heritage of</HI> Jacob <HI>thy Father.</HI> Here is a firme foundation for Saints Sab|bath-delightings, viz. God and his gracious dealings.</P>
<P N="4">4. The&s;e are the fulle&s;t joyes.] Sab|bath-fea&s;ting-delights are &s;oul-filling-delights. Week-day-plea&s;ures in world|ly matters are ever &s;welling, but never filling. They are windy, and empty, and &s;o apt to &s;well men with pride, and &s;elf-conceits: But they do not fill men &s;o as to give them any good &s;atisfacti|ons.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Soul-&s;atisfying joyes, are</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sabbath-&s;anctifying joyes.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Comforts in, and communions with God, give full content. Some of Gods Saints who have had their &s;ouls filled with &s;orrowes all the week, yet upon the Sabbath God hath turned their wa|ter into wine.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Augu&s;t</HI> de tempore Serm. <HI>154.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> is of the judge|ment that that Marriage in <HI>Cana</HI> of
<PB N="224" REF="133"> <HI>Galilee, Joh.</HI> 2. was upon the Sabbath-day, when the &s;ix water pots being fill'd with water to the brim, Chri&s;t made all into wine.</P>
<P>When with &s;ome the &s;ix-week-dayes have been like tho&s;e &s;ix water pots, all fill'd brim full with the waters of &s;or|row, the Lord upon the day of our Chri&s;tian Sabbath hath changed all in|to the be&s;t wine of &s;oul-refre&s;hing com|fort.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jo&s;eph.</HI> de bello Judai|co. lib. <HI>7.</HI> cap. <HI>24.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Jo&s;ephus writes of a River near</HI> Jeru&s;alem, <HI>that upon the &s;ix dayes in the week was dry through the failing of the water from the &s;pring head; but upon the Sabbath which was the &s;eventh day, the &s;prings &s;ent out &s;o fa&s;t, that the banks were filled; whereupon it was commonly called, The Sabbath-River.</HI> I cannot affirm the truth of this: But this is truth; There are that can by experience &s;peak it. When little hath come from the &s;pring head of comfort all the week, yet upon the Sabbath day &s;oul-eomforts have flowed in, and filled up amaine. About the tents of the <HI>Jewes</HI> Manna fell from heaven onely upon the week-dayes, none was found upon the Sab|bath. 'Tis otherwi&s;e with Chri&s;tians, that Manna of heavenly joy, that falls
<PB N="225" REF="133"> not all the week, is to be found upon their Sabbath day; &s;o as that there|with their &s;ouls are &s;afely, &s;weetly, and firmely filled.</P>
<P>O how much might this promote among us the careful keeping of our Chri&s;tian Sabbath, viz. The profitable comfort, and the comfortable profit, that may in the &s;ame be po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed!</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="24" TYPE="section">
<P>Yet upon the &s;ouls of &s;everal of Gods Saints, &s;ome things may be &s;up|po&s;ed &s;adly to &s;it. Some complain that though pa&s;t, there hath been a long continuance of the Sabbath, yet they have found no &s;uch profit and comfort. Others confe&s;&s;e they have found much comfort and profit, but they fear a &s;hort continuance of the Sabbath for the future.</P>
<P>The former are damp'd in the duty and &s;ervice of the day, becau&s;e they feel no pre&s;ent profit and comfort com|ing.</P>
<P>The latter are damp'd in their com|fort and profit for pre&s;ent, becau&s;e they fear the day will not publickly en|dure.</P>
<P>But that, neither the want of the comfort of the day, may di&s;hearten the duty;</P>
<PB N="226" REF="134">
<P>Nor the doubt of the continuance of the day, may dimini&s;h the comfort:</P>
<P>Some things &s;uitable to both &s;orts, may be &s;aid to help in &s;uch ca&s;es of &s;adne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, for &s;uch of Gods Saints as are under temptations, di&s;couraging from the &s;ervice of the Sabbath, be|cau&s;e they have not had &s;uch good &s;ucce&s;&s;e in Sabbaths ob&s;erved.</P>
<P N="1">1. Be it &s;o, yet &s;uch ought in the Sabbath-day-duties, to continue their diligence. We are bound to perform duty, though we &s;hould not receive mercy: 'tis the mark of meer Merce|naries, without &s;ome recompence, no obedience. Indeed the recompence of reward may be in our eye, though it be not our end. In our work we do, we may have a love to the reward; but for meer love of the Reward, we are not to do our work. God is our great Lord and Ma&s;ter; though 'tis not &s;ervile obe|dience, yet 'tis obedience of &s;ervants we owe to him daily, and much more upon his holy day. If he &s;hould not be as a liberal Ma&s;ter to pay us wages for it, yet we mu&s;t be as loyal &s;ervants to perform his work in it. <HI>A learned
<PB N="227" REF="134"> Author reports,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ca&s;&s;ianus, <HI>lib</HI> 4 <HI>cap.</HI> 24.</NOTE> <HI>that he knew a young man, who meerly in obedience to a &s;uperi|ours command, for a whole year together he went two miles every day, onely to poure water on a dry withered &s;tick.</HI> We ought every Lords day to come under Go&s;pel-waterings, though our hearts &s;hould remain as withered, dry, and dead &s;ticks, or hard &s;tones; though we &s;hould feel no &s;oftenings, quickenings, comfortings, 'tis enough we have a command; the duty is ours, the day is Chri&s;ts, who is over all, God above all, ble&s;&s;ed for ever. 'Tis a favour God will imploy us, though he &s;hould not reward us. Angels are glad God will &s;end them on his bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, though they have no new recompence. They are chearful to in|crea&s;e their duty, though they do not enlarge their glory. We be not to con|ceive of the Angels, that &s;ome God hath to &s;tand up by him, and others are &s;ent out of him; for, &s;ayes the A|po&s;tle, <HI>Are they not all mini&s;tring &s;pi|rits, &s;ent forth to mini&s;ter?</HI> Heb. 1. Yet this is their property, they all think them&s;elves happy, in that God thinks them worthy to do his work in the world. And as there are &s;pecial per|&s;ons
<PB N="228" REF="135"> they are imployed for: So there are &s;pecial &s;ea&s;ons they are imployed in:
<LIST>
<ITEM>Mo&s;t for Gods &s;ervants, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mo&s;t on Gods Sabbaths.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><HI>Job.</HI> 1.6. <HI>Now there was a day when the &s;ons of God came to pre&s;ent them&s;elves be|fore the Lord,</HI> Job. 2.1. And again, <HI>There was a day when the &s;ons of God came to pre|&s;ent them&s;elves before the Lord.</HI> This day is by &s;ome applyed to the Sabbath, on which day the Angels more then ordi|nary tender them&s;elves to God to go out as A&s;&s;i&s;tants in his Sabbath-&s;ervice. <HI>Bernard</HI> was wont to &s;ay, The holy Angels helped him to preach every Lords day. Though hereby there be no actual addition to their e&s;&s;ential holine&s;&s;e, or Cele&s;tial happine&s;&s;e; Their very imployment is their plea|&s;ure. Suppo&s;e hereby they may come to a greater knowledge of Chri&s;t: yet hereby they do not gain a nearer ac|ce&s;&s;e unto God, to &s;ee any more of his face then they did, or to receive any more glory in heaven then they had. What then? Notwith&s;tanding they &s;tand ready every Sabbath day, if God will &s;end them out, then to a&s;&s;i&s;t in his &s;ervice</P>
<PB N="229" REF="135">
<P>And &s;hall not we be willing to per|form Sabbath-works, though we re|ceive no Sabbath-Rewards? We that are Mini&s;ters mu&s;t not in our places lay by the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of the Lords Day, be|cau&s;e we cannot have that comfortable &s;ucce&s;&s;e, which the Searcher of all hearts knowes, is our &s;oules de&s;ire, in converting &s;inners to God.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Chry&s;o&s;t.</HI> Hom. <HI>15.</HI> in Matth.</NOTE> <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tom</HI> hath a good expre&s;&s;ion, <HI>As fountains &s;end out water, though no pitcher be brought to fetch from them: So Pa&s;tors ought to preach, though none receive fruit or profit by them.</HI> And thus other Chri&s;ti|ans mu&s;t not ca&s;t off the &s;ervice of the Sabbath which concerns them, becau&s;e they cannot come up to tho&s;e encou|ragements they carry in their eye.</P>
<P N="2">2. Say, &s;ome &s;erving of God upon the Sabbath-day &s;hould not be &s;ucce&s;&s;eful in that plenty of peace and profit they expect; yet what peace or profit could &s;uch expect, &s;hould they lay a&s;ide the &s;ervice of the Sabbath? upon the &s;ame account, at all other times all the exer|ci&s;es of religion might be left off, and what good could then be looked for? <HI>Jerom</HI> upon that place of the Apo&s;tle. <HI>Rom.</HI> 9.16. <HI>It is not of him that willeth, nor
<PB N="230" REF="136"> of him that runneth;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Hieron. <HI>in P&s;al.</HI> 107.</NOTE> <HI>but of God that &s;hewes mery: Sure then</HI> (&s;ays he) <HI>it is not of him that &s;leepeth, nor of him that idleh, nor of him that neglects duty: for on &s;uch the Lord will have no mer|cy.</HI> And <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tom</HI> well ob&s;erves up|on that &s;aying of our Saviour, <HI>Matth.</HI> 16. <HI>If any will come after me,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Chry&s;o&s;t.</HI> in Matth. Homil. <HI>56.</HI></NOTE> &amp;c. Chri&s;t &s;ayes not, If any will &s;tand &s;till, or &s;it down: for (&s;ayes he) the Kingdom of God is not given to &s;tanders and idlers; but to walkers and workers, &amp;c. So &s;ay I, the comforts of God are not given to any per&s;on upon any pretence what&s;oever, that &s;hall neglect his duty, e&s;pecially upon the Lords Day. For any to pretend they have performed du|ties, but &s;ee no good &s;ucce&s;&s;e; what good &s;ucce&s;&s;e are any like to &s;ee upon the cea&s;ing of their duty?<NOTE PLACE="marg">Non e&s;t glo|rio&s;a victo|ria ni&s;i, ubi fuerint la|borio&s;a cer|tamina. <HI>Ambr.</HI></NOTE> If in the Day of battel he that fights may not win the field, &s;ure he that is loath to combate will lo&s;e the Conque&s;t. If &s;uch as look well to their &s;eed-time, plow and &s;owe, mi&s;&s;e their crops; what harve&s;t can they hope for, who in due time do not &s;owe their &s;eed? If &s;uch as are provident and diligent in their callings all the week, yet decay and &s;ink in the world;
<PB N="231" REF="136"> are they like to thrive if they throw by their bu&s;ine&s;&s;e? As if &s;ome on the Sab|bath indu&s;trious in duty, yet perceive their &s;oules &s;inking, and no comfort comming; what comfort is like to come by ca&s;ting off the duties of the Sabbath? If men may u&s;e the meanes, and yet mi&s;&s;e the end: &s;ure &s;uch mu&s;t mi&s;&s;e the end, who do not u&s;e the means. Let none think to better their &s;oules condition, by cea&s;ing Sabbath-tran&s;actions.</P>
<P N="2">2. When Chri&s;tians have performed Sabbath-day-duties, and do not find &s;uch de&s;ired &s;ucce&s;&s;e in comfortable communions with God, it &s;hould pre|&s;ently put them,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Upon &s;elf reflectings, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Not upon Sabbath-neglectings.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>In&s;tantly to enter their own hearts, enquiring the cau&s;e. The Word is a fire, why am I cold? The Word is quick|ning, why am I dead? Ordinances are the meanes of comfort, why have I no comfort by the meanes? Some are at Sermons and Sacraments with their hearts leaping, and go away with their faces &s;hining, that &s;uch as &s;ee them may &s;ay, They have been with Je&s;us: why
<PB N="232" REF="137"> go I drooping all the day? yea, when Chri&s;tians find their Sabbath-perfor+mances yield them no fruit, it &s;hould pre&s;ently put them
<LIST>
<ITEM>Upon the amending their du|ties,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Not upon the omitting their du|ties.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>As Fi&s;her-men in the u&s;e of their Nets, having caught nothing, they fall to turning and mending of their Nets with care: and not to ca&s;ting away of their Nets with di&s;content. An Archer in the u&s;e of his Bow, if his arrow flies wide, or falls &s;hort, he &s;hoots again, directs his arrow more &s;traight, drawes his bowe with more &s;trength, that yet if po&s;&s;ible he may not mi&s;&s;e the mark; Thus in the di&s;charge of the Lords-day-duties, if we mi&s;&s;e Gods de&s;ired mercies, we mu&s;t &s;tir up our &s;elves, and &s;trive with the more &s;trength, quickening up the greater care in a Sabbath-cour&s;e. We mu&s;t not conclude through humane frailties, we will do this dayes work no further; but we mu&s;t re&s;olve through di|vine abilities to do the work of this day better.</P>
<P N="4">4. The Sabbath-performances of
<PB N="233" REF="137"> &s;oule-afflicted Saints, although they are not
<Q><L>Sen&s;ibly good and comfortable to them, yet</L>
<L>They are certainly good and accep|table to God.</L></Q></P>
<P>God &s;ees that in their aimings, which they cannot &s;ee in their actings. That which they cannot &s;ee in their work, God &s;ees in their will. God knowes after what all the day long the &s;et de|&s;ire of their &s;oules reacheth, not a bare being in duty, but therein a clear behold|ing of God, a clo&s;e comming in to Chri&s;t, to keep up their entercour&s;e with Father, Son and Holy Gho&s;t. 'Tis not &s;o much the Ordinance of God, as God in the Ordinance they look for. I know whom you &s;eek (&s;ayes the An|gel, to the women, <HI>Luk.</HI> 24.) <HI>Je&s;us of</HI> Nazareth, <HI>which was crucified.</HI> There they &s;aw the Sepulchre wherein Chri&s;t was laid, and there they &s;aw the linnen clothes wherein Chri&s;t was wrapt, but all would not &s;atisfie. It was not the Sepulchre of Chri&s;t, but Chri&s;t in the Sepulchre they &s;ought for.</P>
<P>So 'tis not &s;o much the Sabbath of Chri&s;t, as Chri&s;t in the Sabbath, nor
<PB N="234" REF="138"> &s;o much the Go&s;pel of Chri&s;t, as Chri&s;t in the Go&s;pel they groan after. Some|thing like that of <HI>Bernards,</HI> is a true Chri&s;tians cry, <HI>Lord, unle&s;&s;e that I give thee my &s;elf, 'tis not all my duties on the Sabbath will &s;atisfie thee, nor is it thy Sabbath with all its duties or mercies can &s;atisfie me, except thou give me thy SELF.</HI></P>
<P>Now &s;uch as in the Sabbath &s;eek God giving him&s;elf unto them, and in the Sabbath &s;eek to give them&s;elves unto God; Oh how well plea&s;ing is this? <HI>In</HI> Cains <HI>&s;acrifice God took no content, but to</HI> Abel <HI>and his offering God had re|&s;pect,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> de civit. Dei lib. <HI>1.</HI> cap. <HI>7.</HI></NOTE> Gen. 4. <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> renders this rea&s;on, <HI>Cain gave &s;ome &s;acrifice, but not him&s;elf unto God:</HI> Abel <HI>offered up him&s;elf to God with his &s;acrifice.</HI> O how &s;weetly does God accept &s;uch in the &s;ervice of Sab|baths, though in Sabbath-&s;ervice &s;uch cannot find &s;weet refre&s;hings from God? Gods face towards them hath &s;miles in it, although a vail over it.</P>
<Q><L>Though Gods mercy is not per&s;pi|cuous to them,</L>
<L>Yet their duties are wel-plea&s;ing to God.</L></Q>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> Ai but alas, I cannot believe
<PB N="235" REF="138"> it, and who&s;oever is not in the faith cannot plea&s;e God.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> It is very requi&s;ite here to di&s;tingui&s;h
<LIST>
<ITEM>Between the &s;tate of faith,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And the acts of faith.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>True, it is not po&s;&s;ible a per&s;on &s;hould plea&s;e God that is not &s;et into a &s;tate of faith; but God may po&s;&s;ibly be plea&s;ed with a per&s;on that does not move in &s;ome acts of faith. A true Chri&s;tian, though all the Lords day long, he hath no fiducial acts as are comfortable to him&s;elf, yet he doth &s;uch obediential acts as are acceptable to God.</P>
<P N="5">5. All tho&s;e that are faithfull in per|forming upon the Lords day their duty, though comfortable &s;ucce&s;&s;e
<Q><L>Is not &s;en&s;ible for pre&s;ent,</L>
<L>Yet 'tis certain for future.</L></Q></P>
<P>'Tis the fault of &s;ome Chri&s;tians (as <HI>Luther</HI> upon <HI>E&s;ay</HI> 54. and ver&s;. 7^t^h^. ob|&s;erves) that they will clo&s;e with nothing, learn nothing, meditate nothing, hear nothing, &s;ee nothing, but what &s;uites with pre&s;ent &s;en&s;e, and according to what feeling affords. Feeling and &s;en&s;e &s;et a&s;ide, faith in the Lord, as well as obedience to the Lord,
<PB N="236" REF="139"> e&s;pecially upon the Lords day, &s;hould be drawn out, &s;o as that what comfort we cannot by &s;en&s;e perceive, we &s;hould by faith believe. Becau&s;e we &s;udden|ly &s;ee not our &s;elves &s;ucce&s;&s;eful in our &s;ervices, &s;hall we think God is unfaith|full in his promi&s;es? In promi&s;es God hath engaged him&s;elf certainly to re|ward a good man for all that good &s;eed, which he upon the Sabbath &s;owes. <HI>&V;nto him that &s;oweth righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, &s;hall be a &s;ure reward,</HI> Prov. 11.18. A Chri|&s;tian &s;incere every Sabbath day, he &s;owes the &s;eed of joy, and God will a&s;&s;uredly reward him with the &s;weete&s;t fruits of joy. And though he hath not comfort in his way, yet he is in the way of comfort. For as God hath bound man to tran&s;act Sabbath-duties; &s;o he hath bound him&s;elf to vouch&s;afe Sab|bath-mercies. And though upon this day, mans di&s;charged duties may not leave in his &s;oul the &s;en&s;e of &s;weet delight; yet Gods engaged mercies, they lay the &s;ure grounds of &s;weet de|light in his &s;oul. And as none &s;hall receive the mercies, but who performs the duties: So whoever faithfully performs the duties, &s;hall a&s;&s;uredly re|ceive
<PB N="237" REF="139"> the mercies. And the le&s;&s;e mercy good men meet for pre&s;ent, the more is to come. Many men upon the Lords day do the works of the Devil, yet for pre&s;ent they have no puni&s;hment of body, no perplexity of &s;oul. Ai but there is the more terror and torment to come. So there are &s;ome of Gods Saints mo&s;t &s;erious in the &s;ervice of the Sabbath, that yet have no &s;en&s;ible peace, no &s;oul-&s;atisfying comforts. There is the more plenty of peace and comforts to come. Chri&s;t in the great work of mans Redemption by his death and &s;ufferings, his &s;oul was in &s;orrowes, yet there was joy &s;et before him, <HI>Heb.</HI> 12.2. <HI>Looking to Je&s;us the Author and fini&s;her of our faith, who for the joy &s;et before him endured the Cro&s;&s;e, de&s;pi&s;ed the &s;hame, and is &s;et down at the right hand of the throne of God.</HI> Chri&s;tians who &s;eek to &s;anctifie the Sabbath, yet can &s;ee no|thing but their own &s;adne&s;&s;e and bad|ne&s;&s;e, however there is joy &s;et before them, which may &s;upport them again&s;t all de&s;pondency, and encourage them in the cour&s;e of their duty. <HI>Luk.</HI> 5.5 6. <HI>Ma&s;ter,</HI> (&s;ayes <HI>Simon</HI> to our Savi|our) <HI>we have fi&s;hed all night, and caught
<PB N="238" REF="140"> nothing: neverthele&s;&s;e at thy Word we will let down the net. And when they had this done, they inclo&s;ed a great multitude of fi&s;hes.</HI> Expo&s;itors ob&s;erve, how they fi&s;hed in the fitte&s;t place to take,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Aretious, <HI>&amp;</HI> Hemingius, <HI>&amp;</HI> Maldo|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at. <HI>in lo|cum.</HI></NOTE> viz. the deep; the fitte&s;t time to take, viz. the night, yea, all night, but nothing caught; however they go again to work, and afterward even with the &s;ame net, and in the &s;ame waters where before they could find nothing, they have a very great draught, <HI>in&s;omuch as their &s;hips were filled with fi&s;hes.</HI> It is the &s;igh, and &s;ad &s;aying of &s;ome of Gods Saints, Lord, we have laboured all the day, many dayes, and yet got no good: in private, in publick upon the Sabbath, time and place probable for &s;oul-peace and profit, yet no &s;ucce&s;&s;e: however let them &s;eek again the next Sabbath, in the &s;ame Ordinances, and by the &s;ame Mini&s;tery they may find that which will fill their &s;ouls with refre&s;hing comforts. <HI>Abraham</HI> when he eyed God, and did not meditate his own oldne&s;&s;e, nor the deadne&s;&s;e of <HI>Sarahs</HI> womb, then he had a &s;on born, an <HI>I&s;aac,</HI> who&s;e name &s;igni|fied laughter, joy, joy. O let none of the &s;ons or daughters of <HI>Abraham</HI> &s;it
<PB N="239" REF="140"> thinking of the late deadne&s;&s;e of the Sabbath-womb, how few births have been brought forth for God upon this day! nor &s;o &s;it thinking of the badne&s;&s;e and barrene&s;&s;e of their own hearts as to break off, or not to bear up in the bu|&s;ine&s;&s;e of this ble&s;&s;ed day! Yet <HI>Sarah</HI> may be fruitfull, and an <HI>I&s;aac</HI> may be born; yet the Sabbath may be &s;ucce&s;&s;e|full, and their &s;ouls joyful. O, brethren, yet be &s;tedfa&s;t, immoveable, abiding, and abounding in the Lords work upon the Lords day, your labour &s;hall not be in vain, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15.58.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, for them that have drunk deep of the &s;weetne&s;&s;e of Sabbath-&s;uc|ce&s;&s;e, but now find &s;ome bitter drops to fall from thoughts of fear, le&s;t the pre&s;ent publick u&s;e of Sabbaths &s;hould cea&s;e; Let &s;uch con&s;ider,</P>
<P N="1">1. That if in the Land our publike li|berties on the Lords Day &s;hould be lo&s;t, and the Sabbaths of God be as it were carried into captivity; yet it would not be long before their return. Touch|ing that great Que&s;tion, about which are &s;uch various apprehen&s;ions, Whe|ther the witne&s;&s;es or no be as yet &s;lain? &s;hould we determine the negative, yet
<PB N="240" REF="141"> after their death it is not long before their re&s;urrection will be, <HI>Revel.</HI> 11.11. And then dead Ordinances, dead Chri|&s;tians, dead Sabbaths will be a&s;&s;uredly rai&s;ed to their primitive life, and lu&s;tre. O let me not live to preach the Fune|rall Sermons of Englands Sabbaths! that would be a dark day. When as the Lord of the Sabbath dyed, darkne&s;&s;e was over all the Land for &s;ome few hours: And &s;hould the Sabbath of the Lord die, darkne&s;&s;e might be over all the Land for &s;ome few years. Tho&s;e &s;trange a&s;toni&s;hing turnings which we have &s;een in our times, whether they tend to the overturning of the holy times and things of God, God knows. Should we have our de&s;erts, and &s;ome their de&s;ires, there would &s;oone be &s;een a &s;ad &s;inking of Sabbaths. Should &s;ome &s;ucceed in their de&s;igns, yet the Day of God might &s;ay, as the Church of God, <HI>Mieh.</HI> 7.8. <HI>Rejoyce not again&s;t me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I &s;hall ari&s;e, &amp;c.</HI> Yea, and 'tis hopeful it would not be long after its falling, before it is ri|&s;ing. We are in the la&s;t; times, wherein God, as he hath great works to do, &s;o great works he may permit men to
<PB N="241" REF="141"> do, yet in all he will have quick di&s;|patches. Should the Go&s;pel-Sabbath, and the Go&s;pell with the Sabbath be beaten down in England, yet mangre the might and malice of all their ene|mies, we have &s;ome grounds to hope, it would not be long, before the Lord lifts them up again. The time for the conver&s;ion of the Ancient <HI>Jews,</HI> and the &s;ubver&s;ion of the Antichri&s;tian <HI>Rome,</HI> now draws nigh, for the batte|ries of who&s;e external part, God will make u&s;e of Externall Powers. And it appears by con&s;ulting <HI>Revel.</HI> 17. that the&s;e Nations of Europe who have taken part with the bea&s;t, and born her up, &s;hall beat her down. The mo&s;t Ortho|dox that I meet, make England one of tho&s;e ten hornes, which &s;hall hate the whore, and make her de&s;olate and na|ked, and &s;hall eat her fle&s;h, and burn her with fire. Now &s;ure it will be Eng|land, be&s;et with Sabbaths that &s;hall &s;end out, and be a&s;&s;i&s;tant in this Service. When <HI>Jo&s;huas</HI> &s;hall be forth abroad with their armies in the valleys, many <HI>Mo&s;es's</HI> &s;hall be at home in the mount, e&s;pecially on the Lords Day, preach|ing and praying with hands lifted up
<PB N="242" REF="142"> unto the mo&s;t High God: then &s;hall be the ruine of this Romi&s;h <HI>Amalek,</HI> this day drawes near. I think indeed it is impo&s;&s;ible punctually to determine the time of <HI>Romes</HI> finall fall, except we could be exact in the time of Anti|chri&s;ts fir&s;t originalls: but certain that time does apace approach. Therefore &s;hould any party acted by the Spirit of Antichri&s;t, for a time interrupt the Lords Day, and oppre&s;&s;e the precious privi|ledges thereof: yet they &s;hall not long prevail, they &s;hall prove but as <HI>Atha|na&s;ius</HI> &s;aid of <HI>Julians</HI> power, <HI>A cloud that will pre&s;ently pa&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>Indeed &s;hould Sabbaths fail and fall, in re&s;pect of &s;infull men (as I have &s;aid before) there would be grounds of great fear, that it might be a long time before God returns them: but in re|&s;pect of good men, there is and will be good grounds of hope, God will &s;horten that &s;ad time: <HI>For the Elects &s;ake tho&s;e daies &s;hall be &s;hortened,</HI> Matth. 24.22. Our Saviour there &s;peaks of &s;uch a &s;ad time, as even upon Sab|bath-days, there might be &s;uch dangers, that men in&s;tead of re&s;ting and &s;erving God, they &s;hould then be running to
<PB N="243" REF="142"> pre&s;erve them&s;elves, ver&s;e 20. Ai but &s;uch a time &s;hould not be long. For the Elects &s;ake God would cut it &s;hort; Indeed as the lea&s;t time of the Lord of the Sabbaths ab&s;ence: So the lea&s;t time of the Sabbath of the Lords hinderance to gracious hearts will be grievous long. <HI>Bernard</HI> upon that &s;aying of our Saviour. <HI>John.</HI> 16. <HI>Yet a little while, and ye &s;hall &s;ee me: and a little while, and ye &s;hall not &s;ee me. A little while, Lord? (&s;ays he) A little while? Thou can&s;t not be gone the lea&s;t while, but it will be a long time.</HI> So the Sabbath cannot cea&s;e the &s;mal|le&s;t &s;ea&s;on, but the time to Gods Saints will &s;eeme exceeding long: and there|fore that time which in it &s;elf and to others would indeed be long, God for their &s;ake makes it &s;hort.</P>
<P N="2">2. There is a po&s;&s;ibility, notwith|&s;tanding the projects of men and perils we are in, to pre&s;erve with us the pre|&s;ent liberties of the Lords Day. But then let us ob&s;erve
<LIST>
<ITEM>Some things towards the Sabbath of the Lord,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And &s;ome things towards the Lord of the Sabbath.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Towards the Sabbath of the Lord, let us labour
<LIST>
<PB N="244" REF="143">
<ITEM>To advance Sabbath-e&s;teemes, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>To revive Sabbath-decays.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The Sabbath we ought all to con|&s;ider, in re&s;pect
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of its worth,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And its work.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>In its worth, let us ri&s;e to higher opi|nions, and</P>
<P>In its work, let us &s;trive to quicker affections.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="25" TYPE="section">
<P N="1">1. Let our opinions ri&s;e higher in the worth of the day. Indeed with the be&s;t, Gods holy times are of too low e&s;teemes; but with the mo&s;t, Gods glorious Day is covered with great con|tempt, buried in the minds of men un|der the Tombe&s;tone of deep forgetful|ne&s;&s;e, or under heapes of ba&s;e and unbe&s;eeming thoughts. <HI>Lamentations</HI> 4.2. The precious &s;tones of <HI>Zion</HI> compa|rable to fine gold, how (&s;ayes the Pro|phet) are they e&s;teemed as earthen Pitchers, the work of the hands of the Potter? So (may I &s;ay) the precious Sab|baths of God better then the fine&s;t gold, how are they e&s;teemed as ordi|nary week-dayes, fit onely for the com|mon work of mens labouring hands? But let us e&s;timate this above all other
<PB N="245" REF="143"> times and things. Let God and his holy Sabbath have the highe&s;t roome in our hearts, and the chief place in the prime of our thoughts. The <HI>Jewes</HI> were wont to call the whole week by the name of the Sabbath, and to &s;ay,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Chry&s;o&s;t. <HI>in</HI> 1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 16. <HI>Hom.</HI> 43. Hie|ron . <HI>ad</HI> Hedibi. <HI>Quae&s;t.</HI> 4. Theophyl. <HI>in</HI> Luc. 18. Lyra. <HI>in eundem.</HI> Beza <HI>in.</HI> 1. <HI>C.</HI> 16. 1. Tremel. <HI>in Syriac. Paraphra&s;.</HI> Matth. 28.1. &amp;c.</NOTE> the fir&s;t, &s;econd, third, &amp;c. Day of or after the Sabbath; and &s;o the Greek in &s;ome texts of the New Te&s;tament reads it, as <HI>Luk.</HI> 18.12. <HI>Mark</HI> 16.2. &amp;c. This they did, as learned Writers ob|&s;erve,</P>
<P N="1">1. For to di&s;criminate them&s;elves, in calling the dayes of the week other|wi&s;e then the Gentils, who called them by the names of their Idols.</P>
<P N="2">2. For to demon&s;trate the dignity of the Sabbath-day, and that above all the dayes of the week it was with them of the greate&s;t account, they had that re|verend e&s;teem thereof, as to denominate the whole week thereby. And ought not Chri&s;tians much rather to hold up an high and honourable e&s;teem of the Go&s;pell-Sabbath, as a more glorious day?</P>
<P N="2">2. Let our affections become quick|er in the work of the day. O, how of late hath the Lords day layen a dying,
<PB N="246" REF="144"> through the dulne&s;&s;e, yea, deadne&s;&s;e of Chri&s;tians in the duties thereof! The way to revive the Sabbaths of God, is to revive the &s;ervice of God; and the way to revive the &s;ervice of God, is to revive Gods Saints in the &s;ervice. And if that we would have &s;uch Sab|bath-revivings, Therein
<LIST>
<ITEM>Let our vi&s;ions of God be clearer,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And our approaches to God be clo&s;er.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. The clearer upon the Sabbath we can &s;ee God, the better will our re|vivings be. It is &s;aid, <HI>Gen.</HI> 45. that <HI>when Jacob &s;aw the waggons that Jo&s;eph his Son had &s;ent, his &s;pirit within him revived.</HI> Did his &s;pirit revive when he &s;aw the waggons his Son had &s;ent? O what were his revivings of &s;pirit, when he &s;aw his &s;on who &s;ent the waggons? The Ordinances upon the Lords day, they are the waggons that for us God hath &s;ent, it is &s;ome reviving to &s;ee them; O but to &s;ee God whence the&s;e waggons are, and who&s;e the Ordi|nances be, how reviving is that? <HI>O,</HI> &s;ayes <HI>David</HI> to God, <HI>that I may &s;ee thy power and thy glory, &s;o as I have &s;een thee
<PB N="247" REF="144"> in the Sanctuary,</HI> P&s;al. 63.2.</P>
<P N="2">2. The clo&s;er upon the Sabbath we can draw to God, the better will our revivings be. We read, 2 <HI>King.</HI> 13.21. of a dead man, that being let down into the Sepulchre of <HI>Eli&s;ha, as &s;oon as he touched the bones of the dead Prophet, he pre&s;ently revived:</HI> Thus Chri&s;tians who&s;e hearts are dead, yet coming clo&s;e to God in the Sabbath, have &s;udden &s;oul-revivings, and mo&s;t comfortable quick|nings. And this is the way to recover the life of the Lords day, and &s;o to &s;ettle the liberties thereof, which at lea&s;t to &s;ome &s;eem to be &s;haking. To|wards the Lord yet further that his day may endure, let us
<LIST>
<ITEM>Keep in the pre&s;ence of the Lord, &amp;</ITEM>
<ITEM>Keep up prayer to the Lord.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. The pre&s;ence of the Lord kept in with us, will hold holy Sabbaths a|mong&s;t us. Indeed let the Lord depart, and then the dayes of grace, and means of grace will immediately remove. When Chri&s;t goes, he calls, Come with me, my Sabbaths, Ordinances, and all my holy In&s;titutions. Time was, <HI>Chri&s;t walked in the mid&s;t of the &s;even golden Candle&s;ticks,</HI> Rev. 1.13. That is, tho&s;e
<PB N="248" REF="145"> &s;even once famous Churches of <HI>A&s;ia</HI> had the pre&s;ence of Chir&s;t with them, and the Ordinances of Chri&s;t among them, the Lords day was a known day.</P>
<P>But now the Sabbath of the Go&s;pel, and the Go&s;pel with the Sabbath is gone, becau&s;e Chri&s;t there was not kept. O, &s;ayes <HI>Martha, Lord, if thou had&s;t been here, my brother had not died: If thou had&s;t been pre&s;ent my brother had not departed.</HI> So may tho&s;e <HI>A&s;ian</HI> people now &s;ay to Chri&s;t, Lord if thou had&s;t aboad with us, thy holy Times and Things had ne|ver been &s;tirred. <HI>Matth.</HI> 28.20. Chri&s;t there hath promi&s;ed his pre&s;ence, even in the u&s;e of Ordinances, <HI>unto the end of the world.</HI></P>
<Q><L>The way to retain Chri&s;ts pre&s;ence,</L>
<L>Is to believe his promi&s;e.</L></Q>
<P>No hands like faith to lay hold upon Chri&s;t. <HI>Faith</HI> (&s;ayes <HI>Luther) is like the beloved Di&s;ciple, it leans in Chri&s;ts bo&s;om, it will not leave him, nor let him go.</HI> Faith it produces
<LIST>
<ITEM>A vigorous love, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>A vertuous life.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Unto a people both will bind Chri&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2. Prayer to the Lord kept up by us,
<PB N="249" REF="145"> will hold holy Sabbaths among&s;t us. In the land were the Spirit of prayer up, Sabbaths would never go down. In|deed it will be a hard matter to make Sabbaths &s;tand, if &s;till praying hands fall. O pray, pray, pray: And in prayer plead with God,
<Q><L>To &s;end out more Sabbath-labourers, and</L>
<L>To ble&s;&s;e Labourers more in the Sab|bath.</L></Q></P>
<P N="1">1. Pray, that more may be &s;ent out, who will be faithful in the labours of the Sabbath, <HI>Matth.</HI> 9.37, 38. <HI>The harve&s;t is plenteous, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the har|ve&s;t, that he will &s;end forth lavourers into his harve&s;t.</HI> Many places in this Land are as fields of ripe Corn; and alas, how do the Divels, [<HI>tho&s;e fouls of the air,</HI> Math. 13.4.] and wicked men [<HI>tho&s;e &s;wine of the earth,</HI> Matth. 7.6.] wholly wa&s;te and &s;poil all, for want of Sabbath-labouring men, to gather into Gods Barn. In divers places upon the Lords day, O what dark doings! people being as a black Lanthorne with|out any Candle. And &s;hall not we pray that God would &s;et up lights, and
<PB N="250" REF="146"> &s;end out labourers, that his day may be duly ob&s;erved; and that we may pre- his day?</P>
<P N="2">2. Pray that tho&s;e who are &s;ent out may be fruitful in their Sabbath-la|bour; that they may &s;ee the travels of their &s;ouls, and be &s;atisfied: That Gods good work may pro&s;per in their hands, and their peoples hearts: That every Sabbath they &s;pend, and every Ser|mon they preach, may prove as the bowe of <HI>Jonathan,</HI> which from the Bat|tel never returned empty. There is a precious promi&s;e fit in prayer to be pre&s;&s;ed, <HI>E&s;ay</HI> 54.10, 11. <HI>As the rain comes down, and the &s;howers from heaven, and returns not thither, but watereth the earth, making it bud and bring forth &s;eed to the &s;ower, and bread to the eater; So (&s;ayes God) &s;hall my Word be that goes out of my mouth, it &s;hall not return to me void.</HI> O pray we that neither the Red or the Black hor&s;e be harne&s;&s;ed out to the Battel, <HI>But that Chri&s;t on the white hor&s;e may conquer,</HI> Rev. 6. Many &s;ouls in the Sabbath by the Go&s;pel may be gained over to God. This would perpetuate Sabbaths, and make the Lords day la&s;t|ing.</P>
<PB N="251" REF="146">
<P>La&s;t of all, unto Gods Saints a Sab|bath in &s;ome &s;en&s;e is &s;ure never to cea&s;e. Gods people
<Q><L>Shall either have the Sabbath of the Lord,</L>
<L>Or to them the Lord will be a Sab|bath.</L></Q></P>
<P><HI>Ezek.</HI> 11.16. <HI>Thus &s;aith the Lord, I will be to them as a little Sanctuary in the Countries where they &s;hall come.</HI> Gods people in <HI>Babylon,</HI> when they could not go to wor&s;hip God in the great and beautifull Temple at <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> yet then God was as a little Temple to them, [And this little Temple was better then the great.] Thus the Saints of God, when they cannot have the Sab|bath that is pre&s;ent, God will be to them a Sabbath more precious, [God is the be&s;t Sabbath.] 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 1.8. <HI>Elka|nah</HI> &s;ayes to <HI>Hannah</HI> his Wife, <HI>Am not I better to thee then ten &s;ons?</HI> One God better then ten Sabbaths, and twenty Sermons, to the &s;ouls of his Saints. No Sabbath of God, is like [God, a Sabbath;] no Sabbath-re&s;t like to the re&s;t that is in this Sabbath; no comfort in a Sabbath, like this Sabbath of com|fort. Yea, let Gods &s;incere Saints live or
<PB N="252" REF="147"> die, they have a Sabbath will la&s;t, an everla&s;ting Sabbath.</P>
<Q><L>If they live, their Sabbath will be ever with them; and</L>
<L>If they die, they &s;hall be ever with their Sabbath.</L></Q>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ambro&s;.</HI> in P&s;al. <HI>119. Augu&s;t.</HI> de cavit. Dei, lib. <HI>22.</HI> cap. <HI>30.</HI></NOTE>Some of the Ancients were wont to call that eternal life God gives in hea|ven [The great Sabbath] And [That long Sabbath-day, that hath no night:] O but then God him&s;elf who in heaven gives life eternal, what a Sabbath is he? O the height, and depth, breadth and length of this Sabbath!</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">[Chri&s;tus] e&s;t magnum &s;empiter-numque Sabbatum, cujus par|vum illud [Judai|cum] exem|plar; in illo &s;iquidem Sabbato re|quie&s;cimus, cum in illo &s;olo &s;pem ponimus; cum hunc toto cordis amore diligimus, &amp;c. <HI>Epiphan.</HI> lib. <HI>1.</HI> Haere&s;. <HI>30 Greg.</HI> Ny&s;&s;. de Re&s;urre. Orat. <HI>1.</HI></NOTE>Yea, I find of the Ancients, who af|firme, that to Gods dear Saints in the dayes of the Go&s;pel, there is a double enduring Sabbath, viz.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Chri&s;t,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And a good con&s;cience.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Chri&s;t is the great and eternal Sabbath which in the Go&s;pel God hath &s;et up, and in this Sabbath we re&s;t, when we repo&s;e our hearts and hopes upon him. This is an unchangeable Sabbath; <HI>Chri&s;t the &s;ame ye&s;terday, to day, and for ever.</HI></P>
<PB N="253" REF="147">
<P>Chri&s;t who is <HI>The Lord our righte|ou&s;ne&s;&s;e,</HI> he is the Lord our Sabbath;</P>
<P>So chat we &s;hall have a Sabbath la&s;t, as long as Chri&s;t lives.</P>
<P>A good con&s;cience,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sabbatum Dei illud quo exterius <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">b opere ce&s;|&s;a&s;&s;e dicitur, Sacramen|tum e&s;t in|terioris Sa|bati ubimens &s;ancto per bonam con|&s;cientiam a peccato qui&s;c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ns &amp;c. <HI>Hugo. Chry&s;o&s;t.</HI> Homil. <HI>17.</HI> in Gene&s;. <HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> Serm. <HI>10.</HI> ad fratres in Exem.</NOTE> as it is a con|tinual fea&s;t, &s;o a Sabbath of re&s;t, <HI>Prov.</HI> 15.15. <HI>E&s;ay</HI> 57.20. <HI>The wicked are like the troubled Sea., that have no Sabbath of re&s;t. Tell me not,</HI> (&s;ayes <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tome) the man hath a &s;umptuous Table, is cloathed mith &s;ilks, attended with &s;ervants; &s;hews me his con&s;cience, there is a hurry of lu&s;ts, a tumult of &s;ins.</HI> [A continual Sabbath-le&s;&s;e man.] A good con&s;cience, <HI>'tis</HI> (&s;ayes <HI>Au&s;tin) the bed of God, the Palace of Chri&s;t, the Temple of the holy Gho&s;t, the Paradi&s;e of delights, the &s;tanding Sabbath of Saints, &amp;c.</HI> Let us be faithful in the Sabbath, that may po&s;&s;ibly cea&s;e, and then may we be &s;ure of a never cea&s;ing Sabbath.</P>
<P>In the &s;adde&s;t &amp; mo&s;t un&s;etled &s;ea&s;ons, when cu&s;tomes are changing, and King|doms are &s;haking, and all Gods Or|dinances &s;eem to be taking their leave in a Land, yea, when all externals in the world are at wor&s;t, yet there is an in|ternal Sabbath in the heart, and an eternal Sabbath in the heavens, whereof
<PB N="254" REF="148"> every Saint may be &s;ure.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sabbatum duplex. Pe|ctoris, et Temporis. <HI>Aquinas 12ae.</HI> que&s;t. <HI>100.</HI> Art. <HI>5.</HI></NOTE> Suppo&s;e there &s;hould be here no more Sabbaths re|maining, yet there is a remaining Sab|bath, <HI>Heb</HI> 4.10. And though the Lords day will end: the Lord him&s;elf will be a never ending day.</P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="part">
<PB N="255" REF="148">
<HEAD>THE LORDS DAY Enlivened.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Revel. 1.10.</HI></BIBL>
<P>I was in the Spirit on the Lords Day.</P></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<P>_THe holy Apo&s;tle in the words pre&s;ent plainly reports,
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Sea&s;on upon which he was &s;et, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The condition into which he was put.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The Sea&s;on which he was on,] It was the Lords Day.</P>
<P>The condition which he was in,] He was in the Spirit.</P>
<PB N="256" REF="149">
<P><HI>I was in the Spirit on the Lords Day.</HI></P>
<P>The Point we are next to pro&s;ecute, is,</P>
<P>That it is &s;en&s;ible to &s;ome, and po&s;|&s;ible for all pious men, to be <HI>in the Spi|rit on the Lords Day.</HI></P>
<P>This Doctrine I &s;hall endeavour
<LIST>
<ITEM>To clear,</ITEM>
<ITEM>To prove, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>To pre&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>For the clearing of truth, it is fit to unfold,</P>
<P>What is the Spirit in which they may be <HI>on the Lords Day,</HI> and</P>
<P>What it is for them on the Lords Day to be in the Spirit.</P>
<P>Spirit;] This is to be con&s;idered both as it relates,
<LIST>
<ITEM>To God, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>To Man.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Omnes No|menis Jeho|vae literae &s;unt &s;piritu|ales, ut de|notetur De|um e&s;&s;e Spiritum. <HI>Al&s;ted.</HI></NOTE>Spirit,] This as unto God, does im|port,</P>
<P>Either the whole divine E&s;&s;ence,</P>
<P>Or one per&s;onall &s;ub&s;i&s;tence.</P>
<P>The whole E&s;&s;ence of the God-head is [Spirit;] As Chri&s;t, King, Prie&s;t, and Prophet is one compleat Saviour: So God, Father, Son, and holy Gho&s;t is one &s;pirituall being.</P>
<P>And as in the Spirit, they are but one being;</P>
<PB N="257" REF="149">
<P>So in their being, they are but one &s;pi|rit.</P>
<P>Thus God is a Spirit, <HI>John</HI> 4.24. Thus Spirit is attributed as unto God, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3.16. 1. <HI>Pet.</HI> 3.18, &amp;c.</P>
<P N="2">2. The third Per&s;on &s;ub&s;i&s;ting in the God-head is [Spirit.]
<LIST>
<ITEM>As there is God a Spirit,</ITEM>
<ITEM>So there is the Spirit of God.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Through mighty &s;igns and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, <HI>Rom.</HI> 15.19. <HI>The things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God,</HI> 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 2.11, &amp;c. This is called, <HI>The Spirit of truth,</HI> John. 14.17. <HI>The Spirit of life,</HI> Rom. 8.2. <HI>The Spirit of holine&s;&s;e,</HI> Rom. 1.4. <HI>The Holy Gho&s;t,</HI> Tit. 3.5.</P>
<P>Spirit,] This as appropriate to man, implies,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Either the whole &s;oul of man,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or the &s;uperiour facultie of the &s;oul.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. For the &s;oul wholly in the &s;ub|&s;tance thereof.</P>
<P>As every individuall man hath his &s;oul,</P>
<P>So the &s;oul of every &s;ingle man it is his &s;pirit.</P>
<P>Each man is a compound creature, made up of &s;oule and body. Hence men are compared to <HI>Gideons</HI> &s;ouldiers, <HI>Judg.</HI>
<PB N="258" REF="150"> 7.16.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ambro&s;.</HI> de Spir. Sa. lib. <HI>1.</HI> cap. <HI>16.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Each having his, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">arthen pitcher and Lamp therein:</HI> when the earthen pitcher of mans body is broken by death, the Lamp of his &s;oul abides burning either in heaven or hell. Thus, <HI>Matth</HI> 10.28. Mans &s;oule while in his body is called [his Spirit.] <HI>I&s;ay</HI> 26.9.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ex ege&s;ts. vid. <HI>Au|gu&s;tin.</HI> in lo|cum, et <HI>Am|bro&s;.</HI> Com. in loc.</NOTE> <HI>With my &s;oule have I de&s;ired thee in the night, and with my &s;pirit within me will I &s;eek thee early.</HI> Luk. 1.46, 47. <HI>Ma|ry &s;aid, My &s;oul doth magnifie the Lord: and my &s;pirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. [Spirit,] That is the &s;oules &s;upe|riour facultie.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>As the &s;oule it is &s;pirit,</ITEM>
<ITEM>So there is the &s;pirit of the &s;oule.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Or,</P>
<P>The &s;pirit of the mind, as the Apo&s;tle calls it, <HI>Rom.</HI> 12.2. This is the intel|lectual, or the knowing power of the &s;oule. <HI>Who knowes the things of man, &s;ave the &s;pirit of man which is in him?</HI> 1. Cor 2.11. Thus, 1 <HI>The&s;&s;.</HI> 5.23. the Apo&s;tle mentions body, &s;oul, and &s;pirit. In|deed this is mo&s;t applicable to man as born of God, con&s;idered</P>
<P>Not onely in his proper con&s;tituti|on:</P>
<PB N="259" REF="150">
<P>But al&s;o in his further re&s;titution.</P>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="section">
<P>As the woman in the Go&s;pell who hid her leaven in three mea&s;ures of meal, till the whole lump was leavened; Thus the Lord layes his Grace in the&s;e three parts: body, &s;oule, and &s;pirit, till the whole man is &s;anctified. Now &s;uch a man &s;o &s;pirited, is fit to be <HI>in the &s;pi|rit on the Lords Day.</HI> On the Lords Day <HI>in the &s;pirit.</HI> [Spirit] it is taken as refer|ring both to God and man. The Spi|rit of God, and the &s;pirit of man meet|ing.</P>
<P N="2">2. What it is for a godly man, on the Lords Day to be in the Spirit. [In the Spirit,] This notes,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both his &s;oules habitual condition, as &s;ettled;</ITEM>
<ITEM>And his &s;oules actuall condition, as moved.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. The &s;oul of a &s;anctified man accord|ing to his &s;ettled condition con&s;idered, is [in the &s;pirit,] Being by grace habi|tually planted, and effectually put into God, Father, Son, and Holy Gho&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>John.</HI> 17.21. That they (&s;ayes Chri&s;t to his Father) may be one in us. <HI>[In us]</HI> That they are, not in thee onely, nor in
<PB N="260" REF="151"> me alone, but <HI>[in us,]</HI> viz. Father, Son, and holy Spirit. Every gracious &s;oul
<LIST>
<ITEM>Re&s;ts in God,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Abides in Chri&s;t, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lives in the Spirit.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1"><NOTE PLACE="marg">Bernard.</NOTE>1. In God there is a re&s;ting, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 37.7. The &s;oule of every true Believer (&s;ayes a learned Writer)</P>
<P>Hath a double Man&s;ion,
<LIST>
<ITEM>One wherein it rules, viz. the bo|dy, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The other wherein it re&s;ts, viz. God.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The &s;oule of every Saint is &s;ettled in God, as in its centre. The force of &s;ome temptation may &s;eeme to un&s;ettle his &s;oule, and as it were to &s;eparate it from God, but then as <HI>Noah's</HI> Dove out of the Ark it finds no re&s;t, back again it comes. God is its centre; and out of God truly it can never be taken. mau|gre all the malice of hell.</P>
<P N="2">2. In Chri&s;t there is his abyding, <HI>John</HI> 15.7.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>In the heart of Chri&s;t, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>In the hand of Chri&s;t.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>As by force none can pluck him from the &s;trength of Chri&s;ts hand: So by
<PB N="261" REF="151"> fraud none can take him out of the lov of Chri&s;ts heart.</P>
<P>In Chri&s;t
<LIST>
<ITEM>Not onely as a man,</ITEM>
<ITEM>But as a member.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Not the lea&s;t bone of Chri&s;ts my&s;ti|call body can be broke off, nor the &s;malle&s;t &s;tone be &s;truck out of this building. The weake&s;t branch ever abides in this vine.</P>
<P N="3">3. In the Spirit, there the believing &s;oul lives, <HI>Gala.</HI> 5.25. <HI>If ye live in the &s;pirit, walk in the &s;pirit.</HI> That life by which the &s;oules of Saints live,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both for its entrance,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And its progre&s;&s;e,</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>It is in the Spirit; the Spirit being the Principle,
<LIST>
<ITEM>From which their life was fir&s;t recei|ved,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And by which their life is after pre|&s;erved.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>As man is kept alive by his &s;oules be|ing in the body;</P>
<P>So a Saint is kept alive by his &s;ouls being in the Spirit.</P>
<P>It is through the Spirit that converted Chri&s;tians are &s;et into God, and put into Chri&s;t. Therefore &s;ure the ho|ly Spirit does not leave their &s;oules
<PB N="262" REF="152"> out of him&s;elf, but they are likewi&s;e in the Spirit, <HI>Rom.</HI> 8.9. <HI>Ye are not in the fle&s;h, but in the Spirit.</HI> In the Spirit thus are not onely &s;ome, but all the Saints of God. And in the Spirit thus are Gods &s;ervants not onely upon the Sab|bath-day, but at all other times; they are never out of the Spirit, nor ever &s;hall. Yea, in the Spirit thus is the whole man of every good man;
<LIST>
<ITEM>The man whole, if</ITEM>
<ITEM>Not the whole man.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The man whole is &s;o in the Spirit, as that he is a &s;piritual man, <HI>Gal.</HI> 6.1. Take him with his bodily part, and about his weekly work, yet he is a &s;piritual man, and a man that is in the Spirit.</P>
<P>Now to be <HI>in the Spirit on the Lords day,</HI> though 'tis to be in the Spirit thus; yet it is more then thus, to be on the Lords day in the Spirit.</P>
<P>So in the Spirit &s;ignifies the &s;piritual tran&s;actions of mans &s;anctified &s;oul, as it is moved and acted by the Spirit of God, and as mans renewed &s;pi|rit, through the Spirit of God moves and acts, upon the Lords day exerci&s;ed in the Spirit; That is,
<LIST>
<ITEM>In the graces of the Spirit, and</ITEM>
<PB N="263" REF="152">
<ITEM>In the comforts of the Spirit.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>In the Spirit,]</HI> That is in the graces of the Spirit exerci&s;ed all the Lords day: then acting in graces
<LIST>
<ITEM>Various, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Vigorous.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>On the Sabbath the &s;oul is &s;et a work in &s;everal graces, and &s;uch as &s;eem to be of a differing nature, as faith, and fear, heavenline&s;&s;e of mind, and hum|blene&s;&s;e of heart, repeatings for &s;in, yet relyings on God: Tremblings of &s;oul, yet re&s;tings on Chri&s;t. Dreading God in the ju&s;tne&s;&s;e of his Judgements, yet loving God who&s;e judgements are ju&s;t: A real longing for promi&s;ed mercies, and yet a quiet &s;taying for tho&s;e mercies long: By hope expecting good things to come, and yet by faith po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing the &s;ame things at pre&s;ent: Utterly un&s;atisfied in Gods hiding his face, yet patiently waiting for God while his face is hid. And though this be the continued po&s;ture of gracious &s;ouls, yet into this they are put, and on in this they are kept through Sabbath-day-quicknings. <HI>[In the Spirit.]</HI> On this day grace is enlivened in them, and they
<PB N="264" REF="153"> lively in grace. In gracious actings their hearts were before as the Cha|riots of <HI>Pharaoh,</HI> that drove heavily: now in the activities of grace their hearts are as the Chariots of <HI>Amminadib</HI> that ran &s;wiftly. Before the members of the new-man were as the lame Crip|ple that lay at the gate: but then they became as the cured Cripple, <HI>Who&s;e ancle-bones receiving &s;trength, he &s;tood up, and went on leaping and pray&s;ing God,</HI> Act. 3.8.</P>
<P>Yea, upon the Lords day the &s;oul of a &s;incere Saint may be in the lively actings of grace,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both reflect,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And direct.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. Reflect actings;] That &s;oul which in the week-&s;ea&s;on walks out in &amp; with the body about the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e thereof, upon the Sabbath-day it turns in upon it &s;elf, mo&s;t &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;idering its own concernments.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gregor. <HI>moral. lib.</HI> 31. <HI>cap.</HI> 17.</NOTE> An ancient Writer &s;piritually expounding that place, <HI>Prov.</HI> 24.27. <HI>Prepare thy work without in the field, and afterward go in, and build thine hou&s;e.</HI> Under&s;tands <HI>by the field man's body, and by the hou&s;e the heart and &s;oul of man.</HI> In the week a mans work more
<PB N="265" REF="153"> lyes in the field, viz. about the bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e of his bodily being: but upon the Lords day his work more lyes in the hou&s;e, viz. the work of the &s;oul is more gathered then within it &s;elf. And as Chri&s;ts Spou&s;e-&s;ayes, <HI>Cant.</HI> 1.7. <HI>They have made me to keep other Vineyards, but mine own Vineyard have I not kept:</HI> So up|on the Sabbath (&s;ayes a good mans &s;oul within him) all the week I have been made to minde a multitude of worldly affairs, but mine own concernments have been &s;et a&s;ide. Now return into thy &s;elf, O my &s;oul: O my &s;oul, now be|think thy &s;elf. And is not this to be in the Spirit upon the Lords day? the &s;oul of a Saint being then &s;eriou&s;ly &s;et
<LIST>
<ITEM>Upon deep intuitions, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Diligent Inqui&s;itions.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Narrowly looking in it &s;elf, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Throughly &s;earching of it &s;elf.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>One of the Ancients compares holy men on the earth,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gregor. <HI>moral. li.</HI> 19. <HI>Sect.</HI> 30.</NOTE> unto tho&s;e holy An|gels of heaven, <HI>Revel.</HI> 4.8. that are &s;aid to be full of eyes within and without. In the week Gods Saints make u&s;e of their eyes without, looking after their nece&s;&s;ary callings and occa&s;ions in the world: but upon the Sabbath they
<PB N="266" REF="154"> more &s;olemnly &s;et a work their eyes within, looking inward upon the true e&s;tate of their &s;ouls. Upon the Sabbath are a Saints mo&s;t &s;erious &s;oul-&s;earches, and heart-di&s;cour&s;es: <HI>I communed with mine own heart, and my &s;pirit made dili|gent &s;earch,</HI> &s;ayes <HI>David,</HI> P&s;al. 77.6. Upon the Lords day with great diligence is the &s;oul of a Saint &s;et,
<LIST>
<ITEM>To find out things that are, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>To find up things that were.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Within he finds &s;o much of &s;in, and &s;o little of God, as makes his heart lie low, and brings him to be in &s;pirit poor, <HI>Matth</HI> 5.3. <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed are the poor in &s;pirit.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Augu&s;t</HI> lib. <HI>1.</HI> de Serm. Do. in monte <HI>Ambro&s;.</HI> lib. <HI>5.</HI> in Luc. cap de bea|tit. <HI>Ba&s;il.</HI> in re|gulis con|tract. quae&s;t. <HI>205.</HI></NOTE> Not poore of &s;pirit, as if any without the Spirit of God were ble&s;&s;ed; but <HI>poor in &s;pirit,</HI> that is, good men poore in the &s;pirit of their own mindes, out of a &s;ight of &s;oul-&s;ins, and &s;en&s;e of &s;oul-wants: or poor in &s;pirit,] That is, &s;ayes one, poore for the &s;pirit. Of the &s;pi|rit they may di&s;cern little, but de&s;ire much.</P>
<P>That good they &s;eek after which they never po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e;</P>
<P>And that good they &s;eek for which &s;eemes to be lo&s;t.</P>
<P>The woman in the Parable, <HI>Luk.</HI> 15.
<PB N="267" REF="154"> having lo&s;t a piece of &s;ilver, <HI>She lights a candle, and &s;weeps the hou&s;e, and &s;eeks di|ligently till &s;he finds it.</HI> O this is good &s;eeking in the &s;pirit; upon the lea&s;t lo&s;&s;e of God, to go into the hou&s;e of the Heart, and there u&s;ing
<LIST>
<ITEM>The candle of knowledge, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Be&s;ome of Repentance.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Diligently &s;eeking till &s;omewhat more of God may appear. When hearts and hopes have been down and dead, yet then to look back, and call to mind mercies of old, tracing the former foot-&s;teps of God in their &s;oules, looking up, and reading over the Lords love let|ters long &s;ince &s;ent, and then comes quickening life into their hopes and hearts, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 77.5, 6, 7, 8. <HI>Lam.</HI> 3.18, 19, 20, 21, 22. And though the&s;e gra|cious actings may be at other times, yet I appeal to the mo&s;t experienced Chri|&s;tians, whether they have not found them&s;elves be&s;t bent about &s;uch Soule-work upon the Sabbath-day.</P>
<P N="2">2. Direct actings.] Upon the day of the Sabbath the &s;oules of Gods Saints may be &s;et a work,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Onwards towards the People of God, and</ITEM>
<PB N="268" REF="155">
<ITEM>Upwards towards the God of his People.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>In grace admirably acting towards their Brethren.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both in &s;ufferings &s;cattered,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And in &s;ervice a&s;&s;embled.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. Where ever a good mans body be found or fixed, yet in &s;pirit he goes vi|&s;iting his fellow-&s;ervants in pri&s;ons, and the forreign Churches of Chri&s;t in all their afflictions. <HI>Beza</HI> reports of <HI>Calvin, That he was &s;o tenderly affected to Chri&s;ti|an Churches remote, as if he had carried them on his &s;houlders, or born them in his bo&s;ome,</HI> often &s;ighing out, <HI>&V;&s;que quo Do|mine,</HI> How long Lord? <HI>more lamenting the Churches calamities, then his own ad|ver&s;ities.</HI> Thus the holy Apo&s;tle, 2 <HI>Cor</HI> 11.28, 29. Be&s;ides tho&s;e things that are without, viz. &s;everall &s;ad af|flictions upon his own body, that which cometh upon me daily, (more then all the re&s;t) the care of all the Churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I burn not, &amp;c. Yea, and in &s;uch Chri&s;tian compa&s;&s;ions to others in affliction Gods dear Saints are mo&s;t deep upon that day, wherein they &s;ee their own &s;weet liberties, priviledg+es,
<PB N="269" REF="155"> and Gods precious things peaceably po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P N="2">2. Where ever a good mans body abides, yet in &s;oul he will be &s;ure at &s;ome place in which Gods People pub|likely meet for Sabbath-&s;ervice. <HI>Da|vid</HI> when in body he was bani&s;hed, and lay hid in the Land of <HI>Hermon,</HI> yet he was in &s;pirit at <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> and went with good people to the Temple for the &s;er|vice of the Sabbath. My &s;oul (&s;ayes he) thir&s;teth for God, for the living God: Oh when &s;hall I come &amp; appear before God? [viz. In body al&s;o.] <HI>When I remem|ber the&s;e things I pour out my &s;oule within me; for I had gone with the multitutde, I went with them to the Hou&s;e of God with the voyce of joy, and prai&s;e, with a multitude that kept Holy Day,</HI> P&s;al. 42.1, 2, 3, 4. The <HI>Jewes</HI> that were bodily at <HI>Babylon,</HI> yet in &s;oule they kept their Sabbaths at <HI>Jeru&s;alem, P&s;alme</HI> 137.5, 6. <HI>Jonah,</HI> though his body was in the bottom of the &s;ea, and belly of the Whale, yet in &s;pirit he was in the Temple at <HI>Jeru|&s;alem:</HI> Then I &s;aid, I am ca&s;t out of thy &s;ight, yet I will look again towards thy holy Temple, <HI>Jonah</HI> 2.4. Though the body of Saint <HI>John</HI> was a pri&s;oner at
<PB N="270" REF="156"> <HI>Patmos,</HI> an I&s;land as &s;ome write near <HI>Affrica,</HI> yet was he in &s;pirit with the Churches of Chri&s;t at <HI>A&s;ia,</HI> and with them he kept the Lords Day. When Saint <HI>Paul</HI> was in body at <HI>Philippi,</HI> yet in &s;pirit he was with Gods Saints in their a&s;&s;emblies at <HI>Corinth:</HI> I verily as ab&s;ent in body, yet pre&s;ent in &s;pirit, have judged concerning him that hath done this deed, in the Name of the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, when (viz. on the Lords Day) ye are gathered together, and my &s;pirit, with the power of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, to deliver &s;uch a one to Satan, &amp;c. So when he was in body at <HI>Rome,</HI> yet in &s;pirit he was with Gods a&s;&s;em|bled Saints at <HI>Colo&s;&s;e.</HI> Though (&s;ayes he) <HI>I am ab&s;ent from you in the fle&s;h, yet I am with you in the &s;pirit rejoycing to behold your order,</HI> (viz. in their Church-a&s;&s;em|blies, &amp;c. <HI>Colo&s;&s;ians</HI> 2.5. But above all are the &s;oules Sabbath-actings in Grace God-ward.</P>
<P>Though the body is then carried out by the &s;oul,</P>
<P>Yet the &s;oule to God is then carried beyond the body.</P>
<P>A mans &s;oule is then &s;o &s;et, as that it incites the body, and the body is &s;o
<PB N="271" REF="156"> brought on, that it &s;ayes to the &s;oule, as <HI>Ruth</HI> to <HI>Naomi,</HI> Whither thou goe&s;t I'le goe, where thou &s;taye&s;t I will &s;tay, thy God &s;hall be my God, and thy peo|ple my people, nothing but death &s;hall part thee and me. <HI>As Jo&s;eph</HI> and <HI>Ma|ry</HI> went together to &s;eek Chri&s;t: So on the Sabbath &s;oul and body in publike and private go together to &s;erve God. Even upon week-dayes, when the body as <HI>Martha</HI> is about worldly and hou&s;e|hold-bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, the &s;oule as <HI>Mary</HI> &s;its at the feet of Chri&s;t. But upon the Sab|bath, when they be both &s;erving of God, yet the &s;oul does the mo&s;t and the be&s;t work. Body and &s;oul are upon the Sab|bath, as tho&s;e two Di&s;ciples that went out to Chri&s;ts Sepulchre, but the &s;oule is as that Di&s;ciple which out-ran his fellow, <HI>John.</HI> 20.4. It comes quicke&s;t in, and clo&s;e&s;t up to Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>Yea. &s;uppo&s;e the heart and mind of a good man may all the week-time be as a boat that beares upon the ground: yet upon the Sabbath the &s;oule may be &s;et as a boat upon a &s;trong &s;tream, and goes as a Ship full &s;aile for God;
<LIST>
<ITEM>In meditations of him,</ITEM>
<PB N="272" REF="157">
<ITEM>And applications to him.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>O the admirable meditations this day on God! The mind that in the week hath been as the foot of <HI>Jacobs</HI> ladder &s;tand|ing upon the earth, upon the Sabbath the &s;oule hath been as the top of that ladder reaching up to heaven in high thoughts of God. One ob&s;erves of the Virgin <HI>Mary,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Hieron. <HI>Epi&s;t.</HI> 17.</NOTE> when the holy Gho&s;t had over-&s;hadowed her, and that holy thing was conceived in her womb, &s;he aro&s;e &amp; went up into the hill-countrey, <HI>Luke</HI> 1.39. When the holy Spirit comes upon the &s;oule of a Saint, and holy thoughts are conceived in the heart, O how the mind mounts up hill to God in heaven! Such a &s;oule-frame is mo&s;t frequent in Sabbath-time.</P>
<P>And O the clo&s;e applications this day made to God,
<LIST>
<ITEM>In prayer, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>In prai&s;es!</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>A good Expo&s;itor gives this glo&s;&s;e upon what the Apo&s;tle does here ex|pre&s;&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Vid. <HI>Aret.</HI> in Locum.</NOTE> <HI>I was in the Spirit;</HI> That is, he was in prayer <HI>upon the Lords Day.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>It is one thing to be at prayer,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And another to be in prayer.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<PB N="273" REF="157">
<P>There is never a day comes over a good mans head, but he is at prayer;<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Bernard.</HI> in F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t. Pen-Pentec. Serm. <HI>1.</HI></NOTE> but to be in prayer on the Lords Day, that is more. Not only praying by the Spirit: but in the Spirit of prayer.</P>
<P>Prayer does not onely a&s;cend to God from the &s;oule: but the &s;oule it &s;elf a&s;cends to God in prayer.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>In prayer wre&s;tling with God, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>With God rea&s;oning in pray|er.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>So that &s;uch beames break out,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Greg.</HI> Orat. de laudib. <HI>Ba|&s;ilii.</HI></NOTE> as make the mans heart burn, and his face &s;hine. It is reported of <HI>Ba&s;il,</HI> that the Emperour <HI>Valence</HI> coming in upon him while he was in prayer, he &s;aw &s;uch lu&s;tre in his face, as &s;truck him with terrour that he fell back. <HI>Luk.</HI> 9.29. <HI>And Je&s;us went up into a Mountain to pray: and as he prayed, the fa&s;hion of his counte|nance was altered, and his raiment was white and gli&s;tering.</HI> Thus for a Saint to be &s;et in Sabbath-Prayer, that his grace is vigorous, and his face is glorious; This is then to be in the &s;pirit: Yea, upon the Lords Day to be in the pray|&s;es of God on high, and in the high pray&s;ings of God,
<Q><L>As adoring God for his goodne&s;&s;e
<PB N="274" REF="158"> received from him,</L>
<L>So admiring God for goodne&s;&s;e per|ceived in him.</L></Q></P>
<P>In &s;uch Sabbath-celebrations of God ble&s;&s;ed for ever, and of Chri&s;t for ever ble&s;&s;ed of God, as to &s;ay, <HI>P&s;alme</HI> 45.1, 2. <HI>My heart is inditing of a good matter, my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Thou, O King, art fairer then the Children of Men, God hath ble&s;&s;ed thee for ever, &amp;c.</HI> Some birds how &s;weetly do they &s;ing, when they &s;oare up into the aire, and in a &s;un-&s;hine-day, &s;it in trees, upon the highe&s;t Twigs! Thus &s;ome of Gods Saints upon the Sabbath-day with hearts meeting, and mindes mounting, O the melody that they make in heavenly <HI>Hallelujahs</HI> unto God. Of &s;uch it may be &s;afely &s;aid, they are in the &s;pirit upon the Lords Day. This will be further unfolded</P>
<P>In that which followes.</P>
<P>In the Spirit;] That is, in the com|forts of the Spirit, con&s;idered
<LIST>
<ITEM>In their heights,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And breadths.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Heights of comfort.] Upon the Sab|bath the &s;oul &s;anctified may be carried in comforts high,
<LIST>
<PB N="275" REF="158">
<ITEM>Both for matter,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And mea&s;ure.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The matter of the comforts wherein the &s;oul of a Saint may upon the Sab|bath a&s;cend, is exceeding high. Higher comforts had <HI>John</HI> in <HI>Patmos,</HI> then <HI>Adam</HI> in Paradi&s;e. The Apo&s;tle upon the Lords day had comfortable conver|&s;es with God in Chri&s;t, which our fir&s;t parents had not in the day of their In|nocency;
<LIST>
<ITEM>They rejoyced in God a Creator,</ITEM>
<ITEM>But not in Chri&s;t a Redeemer.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>And they be far lower delights in which the mo&s;t of men, do &s;ince &s;olace them&s;elves upon the Sabbath-day. Up|on Gods holy day men find onely their own plea&s;ure, <HI>E&s;ay</HI> 58.13. But Gods Saints can find &s;oul refre&s;hing comforts in Chri&s;t the Lord, upon the Lords day. With delights in the Lord their hearts leap. Yea, and the mea&s;ure of their comforts may mount their minds &s;o high upon this holy day, as to make them to be like <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> upon mount <HI>Pi&s;gah, viewing Canaan flowing with milk and hony.</HI> The &s;oul of a &s;incere Chri&s;tian upon the Sabbath may be as it were &s;wimming in a Sea of &s;weet de|lights
<PB N="276" REF="159"> unto the Land of promi&s;e. He who&s;e heart hath been as a Boat that could not be got up becau&s;e of low water all the week, yet it hath been brought up in a high &s;pring-tyde of &s;piritual comfort upon the Lords day. Comforts &s;o high that he is ready to &s;ing with <HI>Simeon</HI> a <HI>Nunc dimittis: Now Lord, let thy &s;ervant depart in peace.</HI> Now the man would gladly die, and be gone to God: content never to &s;ee his ha|bitation or relations on earth more, his &s;oul being &s;o fired and filled with joy, upon Gods holy day, in his hou&s;e of prayer, <HI>E&s;ay</HI> 56.7.</P>
<P>Breadths of comfort.] Upon the Sab|bath the pious &s;oul &s;preads it &s;elf in &s;weet delights, God having given to a good man for his comfort, as <HI>Caleb</HI> did to his Daughter, <HI>the upper and the lower &s;prings.</HI> A Chri&s;tian in his lower comforts the further he goes, the narrower they grow, and the le&s;&s;er they be: but in his comforts upward, the higher he ri&s;es, the greater are their en|crea&s;es: when he is mo&s;t lively let in, they are mo&s;t largely let and laid out. Sabbath comforts may be exceeding broad:
<Q><PB N="277" REF="159">
<L>All things that meet being made in|to comforts, and.</L>
<L>All things for comforts being made to meet.</L></Q></P>
<P>Into comforts are made all things that meet the &s;oul of &s;ome Saint in the &s;er|vice of the Sabbath: The cro&s;&s;es of the world are the encrea&s;es of comfort. <HI>Gods rod and his &s;taffe cau&s;e comfort,</HI> P&s;al. 23.4. <HI>As &s;ufferings abound, con&s;o|lations abound,</HI> 2 Cor. 1.3. The more outward troubles, the more inward tri|umphs. The Apo&s;tle was never &s;o in the Spirit of comforts, as when he was a pri&s;oner at <HI>Patmos.</HI> Under his great|e&s;t confinements he had his &s;weete&s;t enlargements. His every day-afflicti|ons encrea&s;ed his Sabbath-comforts. To his &s;oul nothing was &s;ad when the Sabbath came. Yea, upon the Lords day a believer being in the Spirit, the wor&s;t evils greaten the be&s;t com|forts. Sin remitted, Hell removed, Death vanqui&s;hed, Divel conquered, do all encrea&s;e his comforts. Out of every eater comes meat. <HI>He gathers grapes of thorns, and figs of thi&s;tles.</HI> Upon <HI>Sodom</HI> (&s;ayes <HI>Salvian</HI>) God rained hell out of heaven. Upon the Sabbath God
<PB N="278" REF="160"> to his Saints rai&s;es Heaven out of Hell. Hell, Divel, Death, Sin, Cro&s;&s;es, Cur|&s;es, all encrea&s;e their Sabbath-Cor|dials.</P>
<P>Yea, upon the Sabbath, a gathering of all comforts, con&s;idered according
<LIST>
<ITEM>To &s;everal &s;orts,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And &s;ea&s;ons.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Comforts of differing &s;orts receive a Sabbath-change: Earthly comforts are made heavenly, tho&s;e delights that lye in worldly relations, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, pro|motions, creature-accomodations and contents, in the Spirit are made &s;piritu|al. As a man in carnal comforts makes all comforts carnal: &s;o a Saint in &s;pi|ritual delights makes all delights &s;pi|ritual. The upper and lower &s;prings run all into one &s;tream, and upon the Lords day become all as of one kind. Comforts of differing &s;ea&s;ons are brought within the Sabbath-compa&s;&s;e. A Chri&s;tians ca&s;e becomes &s;uch,
<Q><L>That in Spirit good pa&s;t is then with him pre&s;enr,</L>
<L>And good future he is then pre&s;ent with in Spirit.</L></Q></P>
<P>Things pa&s;t come in for comfort at pre&s;ent. <HI>Luther reports, that &s;ometimee,
<PB N="279" REF="160"> and e&s;pecially upon a Sacrament-day, the death of Chri&s;t was as full and fre&s;h upon his &s;pirit, as if he were then at mount</HI> Cal|vary, <HI>and as if that were the very day and hour wherein our dear Lord died:</HI> Thus a Chri&s;tian may be &s;o in the Spirit of comfort upon the Sabbath-day, as if that were the very day when Chri&s;t broke the bars of the grave, flung the &s;tone off the Sepulchre, <HI>and ro&s;e again from the dead.</HI> Or as if it were the very day when with the holy Apo&s;tles he &s;tood and &s;aw the Lord Chri&s;t taken up into heaven, to &s;it down at the right hand of God. Now to his comfort he can recal the comforts found in former dayes and duties. That very Sabbath his &s;oul comfortably po&s;&s;e&s;&s;es all the Ordinances of Je&s;us Chhi&s;t. He &s;ees as it were the Lord opening his bowels, his bo&s;om, and drawing out both bre&s;ts of his ble&s;&s;ed Word and Sacraments, bidding his &s;oul &s;uck, and be fully &s;ati&s;|fied. And unto things future he comes for his pre&s;ent comfort. Not onely as at a di&s;tance a believer may look at heaven, and the felicities thereof, but his &s;oul in the Spirit of comforts may be &s;o carried out, as if heaven were already
<PB N="280" REF="161"> po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed. 'Twas a brave expre&s;&s;ion of the Martyr to his cruel tormentors: <HI>Work your will upon my weak body, as for my &s;oul it is in heaven already, and over that Cae&s;ar hath no power.</HI> And as &s;uch may be a Chri&s;tians ca&s;e in the day of his &s;ufferings: &s;o may it be in THIS DAY of his &s;ervice. <HI>Jerom</HI> profe&s;&s;es that he had &s;ometimes found things &s;o with him&s;elf,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Hieron.</HI> in lib. de vir|gin. <HI>Seru.</HI></NOTE> that it &s;eemed to him, as if he had been triumphing among Troops of Angels, and &s;inging <HI>Hallelu|jahs</HI> with the Saints in heaven; Yea, walking arme in arme with Chri&s;t in the Galleries of eternal glory. The Apo&s;tle is to this purpo&s;e, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12.2, 3. <HI>I know a man in Chri&s;t above fourteen years ago, whether in the body I cannot tell, or out of the body I cannot tell, God knowes; &s;uch a one caught up into the third heaven. And I knew &s;uch a man, whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tell, God knowes; how he was caught up into Paradi&s;e, &amp; heard un&s;peakable words,</HI> &amp;c. This of the Apo&s;tle St. <HI>Paul</HI> does import the highe&s;t pitch of a per&s;ons being in the Spirit. And of &s;uch a being in the Spirit the Apo&s;tle St. <HI>John</HI> does here &s;peak his experience,
<Q>I was in the Spirit on the Lords day.</Q></P>
<P>This for Explication.</P>
<PB N="281" REF="161">
<P>Now for Confirmation.</P>
<P>Upon the Lords day good mens thus being in the Spirit, See
<LIST>
<ITEM>Why 'tis &s;en&s;ible to &s;ome, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>How 'tis po&s;&s;ible to others.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="section">
<P N="1">1. Some of Gods Saints are &s;en&s;ibly in the Spirit upon the Sabbath-day. Indeed,
<Q><L>This day is fitte&s;t for the Spirits working; yea,</L>
<L>And they are fitte&s;t this day for the working of the Spirit.</L></Q></P>
<P>The Sabbath it is a fit day for the Spi|rit thus to work: for
<LIST>
<ITEM>'Tis a day ble&s;&s;ed, <HI>Gen.</HI> 2.3. and</ITEM>
<ITEM>'Tis a day &s;acred, <HI>Exod..</HI> 20.11.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. The Sabbath being a ble&s;&s;ed day, it is fit for the ble&s;&s;ed Spirit to be about his work. [Day ble&s;&s;ed;] Note,
<LIST>
<ITEM>The ble&s;&s;er of it, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The ble&s;&s;ing on it.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The ble&s;&s;er of this Sabbath-day is God; <HI>God above all ble&s;&s;ed for ever,</HI> hath made this day ble&s;&s;ed.</P>
<Q><L>As that is cur&s;ed which God cur&s;es,</L>
<L>So that is ble&s;&s;ed which is ble&s;&s;ed of God.</L></Q>
<P>The ble&s;&s;ing of this Sabbath-day is great.</P>
<Q><L>As God hath ble&s;&s;ed his Servants above other men,</L>
<PB N="282" REF="162">
<L>So he hath ble&s;&s;ed his Sabbaths above other time.</L></Q>
<P>As <HI>I&s;aac</HI> had a ble&s;&s;ing for <HI>E&s;au,</HI> but no &s;uch ble&s;&s;ing as had pa&s;&s;ed upon his brother <HI>Jacob:</HI> So God hath a ble&s;&s;ing for every day, but no &s;uch ble&s;&s;ing as he hath pa&s;&s;ed upon his Sabbath. The very ble&s;&s;ing of ble&s;&s;ings, is the ble&s;&s;ing on the Sabbath: &s;o that well now may the ble&s;&s;ed Spirit be about his mo&s;t ble&s;&s;ed works, this being the mo&s;t ble&s;|&s;ed day.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Sabbath being a &s;acred day, a day &s;anctified, and made holy, it is meet for the works of this holy Spirit. The holy Gho&s;t,
<Q><L>As he loves to live in holy per&s;ons,</L>
<L>So he loves to move in holy &s;ea&s;ons.</L></Q></P>
<P>And &s;o working, there is Holy, Holy, Holy, Viz.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Gods holy Spirit, the work is by;</ITEM>
<ITEM>Gods holy &s;ervants, the work is in;</ITEM>
<ITEM>Gods holy Sabbath, the work is on.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>God hath poured out the holy oyl upon the head of the Sabbath <HI>(as the precious oyntment upon the head of Aaron,)</HI> &s;ome drops of which may indeed run down upon the other dayes. Upon the head of this day God hath &s;et the
<PB N="283" REF="162"> holy Crown, whence the Ancients well call it, <HI>The King of dayes.</HI> The Spirit of God, tis termed a Kingly, or Prince|ly Spirit, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 51.12. <HI>&V;phold me with thy free Spirit.</HI> Or, as the Septuagint reads it, <HI>Thy Princely Spirit.</HI> The works of Gods Princely Spirit, are mo&s;t pro|per for this Princely day: this high and holy day, it be&s;t &s;uites to the work of the mo&s;t high and holy Spirit of God. Gods holy Spirit may (its true) take
<LIST>
<ITEM>A &s;inful &s;ubject to work in,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And yet a holy Sabbath to work on.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>But his be&s;t works in &s;ouls &s;anctified, are mo&s;t &s;ea&s;onable upon this &s;ancti|fied day. Yea, and the holy Spirit be|ing now about his be&s;t bu&s;ine&s;&s;e,
<Q><L>Both honours the Lord of the Sab|bath,</L>
<L>And honours the Sabbath of the Lord.</L></Q></P>
<P>The Lord is highly honoured in the holy Spirits workings; for
<Q><L>He brings in Chri&s;ts pre&s;ence, through his Ordinance;</L>
<L>And he drawes up Chri&s;ts Ordinance, through his pre&s;ence.</L></Q></P>
<P>The pre&s;ence of Chri&s;t is by the Spirit &s;o brought in, &amp; by the Spirit the Or|dinance
<PB N="284" REF="163"> of Chri&s;t is &s;o wrought up, as lifts up the Lords honour high. The Lord never hath &s;o high honour in a Sabbath-Ordinance, as when therein ap|pears his Sabbath-pre&s;ence. The holy Spirit by Chri&s;ts pre&s;ence &s;upplies the want of an Ordinance, &amp; improves the worth of an Ordinance by the pre&s;ence of Chri&s;t. And by all this is Chri&s;ts honour held up, in being the Lord of the Sabbath.</P>
<P>Yea, the Sabbath it &s;elf is much ho|noured thereby. Gods people who&s;e hearts have been made to &s;parkle and &s;pring through the Spirit of God upon the Sabbath-day, they e&s;teem the day of the Sabbath,
<Q><L>Not onely as their re&s;ting day,</L>
<L>But rather as their ri&s;ing day.</L></Q></P>
<P>A day
<LIST>
<ITEM>Not &s;o much for the earthly ea&s;ing of their bodies,</ITEM>
<ITEM>As for the heavenly actings of their &s;ouls.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>This day in their hearts they &s;o high|ly honour, that for it they long, and in it they labour, and all with delight. O how honourable in the heart of this Holy Apo&s;tle was the Chri&s;tian Sab|bath, having there on been ravi&s;hed in
<PB N="285" REF="163"> the Spirit! He writing to the Church|es of Chri&s;t, fir&s;t gives it this high Ti|tle,</P>
<P>THE LORDS DAY;</P>
<P>For the honour both of the Lord, and the day.</P>
<P>Upon &s;uch accounts, the Holy Gho&s;t may well to chu&s;e take up this as a day mo&s;t fit for his great and wonderfull works.</P>
<P N="2">2 The Sabbath it is the day wherein Gods Saints are mo&s;t fit for the&s;e won|derfull workings in the Spirit. This day they being
<LIST>
<ITEM>From the world mo&s;t &s;evered,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And with them&s;elves be&s;t gather|ed.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. Upon the Sabbath Gods Saints are mo&s;t remote from the world,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Greg. <HI>Moral. lib:</HI> 1.</NOTE> and &s;o meete&s;t for the Lord, and fitte&s;t for intimate conver&s;e with God. One ob|&s;erves, that our Saviour being entred into a &s;hip, <HI>Mark</HI> 4. <HI>He commanded his Di&s;ciples to put a little from the &s;hoare, but not to lanch out into the deep;</HI> Thus true Chri&s;tians in the week-time may put the &s;hip of their &s;oules a little off from the land, removing &s;o far from their world|ly affaires, as by and by to &s;tep back
<PB N="286" REF="164"> into the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of their lawful cal|lings: but on the Sabbath they put the &s;hip further off from the &s;hoare, and lanch out into the deep, withdrawing them&s;elves quite from their earthly oc|ca&s;ions, and applying them&s;elves wholly to the &s;olemne &s;ervice of God. Another &s;peaking to the Church of Chri&s;t, does &s;omething thus expre&s;&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> him&s;elf; O cha&s;te and holy &s;pou&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bernard,</NOTE> Chri&s;t thy hea|venly Husband that will not all the week crowd in to thee through a throng of worldly cares, yet upon the Sabbath will give thy &s;oule mo&s;t &s;weet vi&s;its. While <HI>Zaccheus</HI> was among the pre&s;&s;e of people, he could not behold Chri&s;t; but climbing up into a &s;ycomore-tree, then he &s;aw him: a good man in the pre&s;&s;e of his week-day-imployments can get no view of Chri&s;t; yet then the Sabbath-day is as the &s;ycomore-tree, on that he climbes and comes clo&s;e to Chri&s;t; Then his heart is in the be&s;t frame, free&s;t for God, being furthe&s;t from the world.</P>
<P N="2">2. Upon the Sabbath Gods Saints are be&s;t brought together, both
<LIST>
<ITEM>In Body,</ITEM>
<PB N="287" REF="164">
<ITEM>And Mind.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Chri&s;tians being thus gathered upon the Lords Day, lie in the readie&s;t way for the&s;e high workings of the Spirit. <HI>Act.</HI> 2.1, 2. <HI>And when the day of Penteco&s;t was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And &s;uddenly,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>Day of Penteco&s;t:]</HI> This fiftieth day (&s;o the word imports) it was the fir&s;t day in the week,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Vid. <HI>Cy|pri.</HI> de Spir. San; <GAP DESC="foreign">,</NOTE> (as the be&s;t affirm (even our Lords Day.</P>
<P><HI>They were all;]</HI> That is,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ba&s;il.</HI> de &s;pi. Sancto. ca. <HI>27. Au|gu&s;t.</HI> de temp. Ser. <HI>251.</HI></NOTE> all the eleven Apo&s;tles of Chri&s;t, as is plainly expre&s;|&s;ed, <HI>Act.</HI> 1.26.</P>
<P><HI>In one place:]</HI> In an upper Chamber at <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> they were all [Bodily] ga|thered together.</P>
<P><HI>With one accord;]</HI> Their minds were met as well as their bodies. They were all in one hou&s;e, with one Heart, waiting for the promi&s;es of the Lord.</P>
<P><HI>And &s;uddenly there came;]</HI> That is, with all &s;peed the Spirit of God came down upon them, &s;o as never before, for
<LIST>
<ITEM>Manner, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mea&s;ure.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<PB N="288" REF="165">
<P>The manner,] A &s;ound from heaven as of a ru&s;hing mighty wind all about the hou&s;e where they were &s;itting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues, like as of fire and &s;at upon each of them.</P>
<P>The mea&s;ure,] And they were all fil|led with the Holy Gho&s;t, and they &s;pake with other tongues,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> Ser. <HI>2</HI> ad fratr. in eremo.</NOTE> as the Spirit gave them utterance. The Spirit &s;pake in them, and they &s;pake in the Spirit the wonderfull works of God; The Spirit was poured in upon them, and they poured it out in the Spirit. Gods work was wonderfull. and thus being upon the Lords Day gathered, they found &s;uch &s;piritual fierings and fillings. That evil &s;pirit oft a&s;&s;aults the &s;ouls of Gods Saints when they are &s;olitary, &s;ingle, and &s;evered, <HI>Matth</HI> 4.1. But the good Spirit of God de&s;cends upon the &s;oules of his &s;ervants met in their &s;olemn a&s;&s;emblies. One well ob&s;erves, that the dry bones which the Prophet &s;aw, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 37. the Spirit of God did not enliven them while they lay &s;catter|ed in the field: but when the bones came together, bone to his bone then the Spirit of life came into them, and
<PB N="289" REF="165"> they &s;tood up upon their feet, ver&s;, 7, 8, 9. Thus Gods &s;ervants, when together they are upon the Sabbath a&s;&s;embled, then the&s;e kindlings, and comfortable quickenings come. Yea, though their hearts and thoughts were all the week more &s;cattered about in the world, yet they are better gathered in to the Lord upon the Sabbath-day. And the &s;ouls of Gods people put into &s;uch a Sab|bath-po&s;ture are mo&s;t prompt and be&s;t prepared for comfortable conver&s;e with God in the Spirit. And in the Spirit on the Lords day &s;ome actually are, that &s;o they may the better,
<Q><L>For pre&s;ent receive the my&s;teries of Faith, and</L>
<L>For future perform the duties of obe|dience.</L></Q></P>
<P>Faith,] That the apprehen&s;ions of this may hereby be enlarged, and man unto the Dimen&s;ions hereof may here|by be better enabled. By being in the Spirit a Chri&s;tian is made more able to reach out unto the lengths, breadths, heights, &amp; depths of faith, and by belie|ving to find out, and fetch in the va&s;t My&s;teries of God in the Go&s;pel. Go&s;|pel-truths vailed, are hereby clearly
<PB N="290" REF="166"> revealed, and clo&s;ely received. Hence St. <HI>John</HI> came to receive &s;uch clo&s;e and clear revelations from God, which he could never have reached, had he not on the Lords day been in the Spirit. His whole Book that is &s;o my&s;terious to others,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jerom. <HI>epi&s;t ad</HI> Paulin.</NOTE> things therein were per&s;pi|cuous to him. To him therefore &s;e|veral of the Ancients &s;o apply that,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ambro&s;</HI> lib. <HI>3.</HI> de Spir. Sancto, cap. <HI>21. Augu&s;t.</HI> de civit. Dei, lib. <HI>20.</HI> cap. <HI>17.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Revel.</HI> 22.1. <HI>And he &s;hewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as Cry&s;tal, pro|ceedinding out of the Throne of God, and of the Lamb.</HI> Things to him i&s;&s;ued from God, all pure and clear. This made <HI>John</HI> the Bapti&s;t a greater Prophet then <HI>E&s;ay,</HI> or any other before him; things intricate to others, were explicate to him. Now the Apo&s;tle could not have been capable of &s;uch clear di&s;coveries, had he not been fir&s;t in the Spirit upon the Lords day. Upon the Lords day be|ing in the Spirit a Chri&s;tian rides in the Chariot of faith triumphant from earth [yea, po&s;&s;ibly as out of Hell] into Heaven, where he &s;ees tho&s;e glori|ous my&s;teries of mercie that concerns his &s;ouls comfort; yea, and what may be of &s;ingular concernment for the &s;ouls of others.</P>
<PB N="291" REF="166">
<P>Obedience,] That the &s;everal con|ditions of this may be the better ful|filled,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both in &s;ervice,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And &s;uffering.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Gods &s;ervants by being in the Spirit are abundantly fitted,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both for Affliction,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And Action.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><HI>Act.</HI> 20.22, 23, 24. <HI>And now</HI> (&s;ayes the Apo&s;tle) <HI>behold, I go bound in the Spirit to</HI> Jeru&s;alem, <HI>not knowing the things that &s;hall befall me there, &s;ave that the holy Gho&s;t witne&s;&s;eth in every City, &s;aying, that bonds and afflictions abide me. But none of the&s;e things move me, neither count I my life dear to my &s;elf, &s;o that I may fini&s;h my cour&s;e with joy, and the Mi|ni&s;tery which I have received of the Lord, to te&s;tifie the Go&s;pel of the Grace of God.</HI> O what a fixed frame of heart had the holy Apo&s;tle to honour God, both
<LIST>
<ITEM>By doing,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And dying.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>He was <HI>[bound in the Spirit.]</HI> The Spirit that is compared to winde, did now upon the Apo&s;tle blow with &s;uch a full gale, that he went as a &s;hip full &s;aile unto the Port God had appointed.
<PB N="292" REF="167"> The &s;pirit of this good man did not hang loo&s;e, but was girt up to go tho|row with the work whatever came. The Spirit hemm'd it about, loo&s;ened him from all that might any way hinder; but &s;o gathered up his heart for God and the Go&s;pel, as to further him in his way and work. One telling a Martyr that it was hard to burn. It is indeed, &s;aid he, for him that hath his &s;oul li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">k|ed to his body, as a Theefs foot in his fetters; but for him that hath his &s;oul &s;et above his body it is ea&s;ie to burn. Kindle fire, I come, Saviour.</P>
<P>Another having put one foot into the flame, &s;teps back, &s;aying, The fle&s;h &s;hrinks, and &s;ayes: On earth it is better to burn. The Spirit &s;ayes, In heaven it is &s;weet to &s;hine: The fle&s;h &s;ayes, wilt thou &s;horten thy life? The Spirit &s;ayes, It is nothing, nothing to life eter|nal. The fle&s;h &s;ayes, Wilt thou leave thy friends? The Spirit &s;ayes, Chri&s;t and his Saints &s;ociety is better, &amp;c. And &s;o in the power of the Spirit he flings him&s;elf into the fierce&s;t flames. And the &s;ouls of Gods Saints may ex|pect &s;uch Spiritual &s;upports in the dayes of their &s;uffering, who &s;erving God
<PB N="293" REF="167"> have been in the Spirit on the Lords day. The truth of all which &s;ome have &s;en&s;ibly found.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="section">
<P N="2">2. That others of Gods Saints po&s;&s;i|bly may find their &s;ouls thus in the Spi|rit on the Lords day. This proved,
<Q><L>By the properties of the Lords Spirit towards them, and</L>
<L>By the properties of their &s;pirits to|wards the Lord.</L></Q></P>
<P>As for the Spirit of the Lord to|wards them,
<LIST>
<ITEM>'Tis a Spirit
<LIST>
<ITEM>enriching,</ITEM>
<ITEM>and ruling.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>'Tis a Spirit
<LIST>
<ITEM>rai&s;ing, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>re&s;ting on them.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. The Spirit enriches the people of God, by imparting to them,
<LIST>
<ITEM>What is precious and excellent, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>What is Plenteous and abundant.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The riches of grace, <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 1.7. which is compared to enriching gold, <HI>Revel.</HI> 3.18. This in abundance is brought in by the Spirt, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 3.18. An evil &s;pirit is reported to have brought to &s;ome in league with him,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Remigi.</HI> lib. de Daemo.</NOTE> pieces in appearance of true gold, but they were never the richer; for when they went to u&s;e them, all turned into whithered leaves; (And
<PB N="294" REF="168"> &s;o with fal&s;e gold of &s;eeming grace does Satan deceive the &s;ouls of &s;ome.) But the good Spirit of God brings into the &s;ouls of Gods Saints &s;uch gold of grace as is of real and rare u&s;e for their great enriching God-ward. Men rich in earthly gold and the ordinary wealth of the world, are able to compa&s;&s;e and accompli&s;h tho&s;e&punc; things that others cannot. Such as the Spirit of the Lord hath largely enriched with Go&s;pel-gold, O what great things are they enabled to do! O what fellow&s;hips with the Father, conver&s;es with the Son, com|munion with the holy Gho&s;t are they prepared for! And may not they be in the Spirit on the Lords day?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="section">
<P N="2">2. The Spirit he rules the people of God by exerci&s;ing over them,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both a Negative, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>A Po&s;itive power.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>A power whereby he holds them off from what he di&s;likes. They cannot with others wade into the waies of the world, the Spirit will not let them; they cannot &s;hift their &s;ails as the wind, change in every turn of times. <HI>And though</HI> (as <HI>Nazianzen</HI> &s;aid of <HI>Athana|&s;ius) they be as load&s;tones to draw others
<PB N="295" REF="168"> in to God; yet they are as Adamants that will not warp wind, bend, or break, or &s;hrink from God.</HI> The Spirit of the Lord will not let them; they cannot, they care not: yea, the Spirit may keep them from &s;omething which may &s;eeme good to them, becau&s;e of &s;ome greater good in the &s;ight of God. When Saint <HI>Paul</HI> was going to preach the Word at <HI>A&s;ia,</HI> the Holy Gho&s;t forbade him; and being about to go to <HI>Bithynia,</HI> the Spirit &s;uf|fered him not, <HI>Act.</HI> 16. And a power the Spirit doth daily exerci&s;e over the People of God, to lead them on to what the Lord requires, <HI>Rom.</HI> 8.14. <HI>Gala.</HI> 5.18. <HI>Ezechiel</HI> the Prophet &s;aw four wheeles which were &s;ometimes carried on upon the earth, and &s;ometimes lift|ed up above the earth, according as the &s;pirit of the living creature moved that was in the wheeles; Thus the Soules of Gods Saints are &s;et a going, &s;ometimes they ri&s;e higher, and &s;ometimes they run &s;wifter as the Spirit of the living God leads that is in their hearts. Good men,
<Q><L>The Spirit leads them, they may not be at a lo&s;&s;e: yea,</L>
<L>And when they are at a lo&s;&s;e, yet the Spirit leads them.</L></Q></P>
<PB N="296" REF="169">
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Augu&s;t.</HI> de cor. et gra. Cap <HI>2.</HI> Id. de Grat. et lib. Arb. Cap. <HI>1.</HI></NOTE>God led the people of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> through the wilderne&s;&s;e, not onely by a pillar of fire, but by a pillar of the cloud, <HI>Nehem.</HI> 9.19. The Spirit leads Gods people through the world as a fire that gives them light, that &s;o they may not lo&s;e their way: &s;ometimes there is &s;uch a cloud, they cannot &s;ee their way: yet then the Spirit leads them, and when they are at a lo&s;&s;e, it is that <HI>voice behind them, &s;aying, This is the way, walk in it, E&s;ay</HI> 30.21. Now they that are thus under the daily conduct of the Spirit, may not they be in the Spirit on the Lords Day?</P>
<P N="3">3. The Spirit rai&s;es the people of God, lifts up a good man being down, through amazing meditations</P>
<P>Either of God in the Heights of his Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P>Or of him&s;elf in the depths of his Mi&s;ery,</P>
<P>When the Prophet was fallen upon his face through affrighting thoughts at the glorious pre&s;ence of God in a vi&s;ion, <HI>Then the Spirit entred into</HI> him, <HI>and &s;et</HI> him <HI>upon his feet,</HI> Ezek. 2.2. Ezek. 3.24. The u&s;uall cau&s;e of a Chri&s;tians ca&s;ting down is the &s;ad ap|prehen&s;ions
<PB N="297" REF="169"> of his &s;everall &s;ins: &s;o that he &s;eemes to him&s;elf as if his &s;oul were &s;inking into the depths of hell, then the Spirit helps him up,
<LIST>
<ITEM>By recalling former mercies, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>By revealing further My&s;teries.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The Spirit recalls, or cau&s;es a Chri&s;ti|an to remember</P>
<P>The promi&s;es of mercy the Lord hath made, and</P>
<P>The experiences of mercy him&s;elf hath found.</P>
<P><HI>John</HI> 14.26. <HI>The Spirit &s;hall bring all things to your remembrance, viz.</HI> The gracious &s;ayings and glorious do|ings of God in dayes pa&s;t are drawn a fre&s;h into the thoughts of dejected Saints. The Spirit reveals, or makes &s;uch my&s;teries of mercy manife&s;t as were not before known, <HI>Eph.</HI> 1.17, 18. <HI>That God the Father of glory may give you the Spirit of wi&s;dom and revelation in the knowledge of him: That the eyes of your under&s;tanding being enlightened, ye may know what is the hope of his calling,</HI> &amp;c Thus the Spirit pulls up poore Saints pittifully plunged:
<LIST>
<PB N="298" REF="170">
<ITEM>Being down,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Either in &s;ins,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or in &s;or|rowes,</ITEM>
</LIST> The Spirit rai&s;es.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Saints in their &s;ad relap&s;es have &s;weet illap&s;es, the Spirit letting in &s;uch light and heat as heaves up their hearts, dark, down and dead. They who in ordinary dayes may have &s;uch experi|ences of Spirit-helps, may not they be in the Spirit on the Lords Day?</P>
<P N="4">4. The Spirit re&s;ts upon the People of God; &s;o the Apo&s;tle expre&s;&s;es it, 1 <HI>Pet</HI> 4.14. This imports
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Spirits Pre&s;ence
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both inti|mate,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And per|tuate</ITEM>
</LIST> With the people of God</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>They have the friendly and familiar pre&s;ence of the Spirit in clo&s;e acquain|tance, Communions and Communicati|ons, as is not to any other men. They have the pre&s;ence of the Spirit in his continued workings,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Without Intermi&s;&s;ion, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Without Termination.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The Spirit within them does never intermit all his actings. Though he is in the &s;oule as the pul&s;e in the arme,
<PB N="299" REF="170"> that does not alway beat with the &s;ame &s;en&s;ible &s;trength, and evenne&s;&s;e (Mo|tions may to a good mans feeling be more weak and low;) yet even in &s;uch di&s;tempers he is &s;till &s;tirring.</P>
<P>As when the body of a man is a&s;leep, yet there in the &s;oul is acting:</P>
<P>So when the &s;oule of a Saint is a&s;leep, yet there in the Spirit is work|ing.</P>
<P>Neither can any period po&s;&s;ibly be put to &s;uch an operative pre&s;ence of the Spirit in the People of God. The graci|ous &s;oul is on earth as the Spirits centre, the &s;ettled pre&s;ence here of is not in any other &s;oul. The Spirit of <HI>Noah's</HI> Dove hovers over the hearts of earthly men: but a holy and humble heart is to the Spirit as <HI>Noah's</HI> Ark to the Dove; there he re&s;ts. <HI>John.</HI> 14.16. <HI>I</HI> (&s;ayes Chr&s;&s;t) <HI>will pray the Father, and he &s;hall &s;end you another Comforter, even the Spirit of truth, and he &s;hall abide with you for ever.</HI> Your bodies have had my cor|porall pre&s;ence for a time, but in your &s;oules the pre&s;ence of my Spirit &s;hall remain for ever. Now they that have in them &s;uch a perpetuall pre&s;ence of the Spirit, may not they be in the Spirit upon the Lords Day?</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="300" REF="171">2. We &s;hall con&s;ider their &s;pirits to|wards the Lord,
<LIST>
<ITEM>For &s;uitablene&s;&s;e,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And capablene&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>For the pliablene&s;&s;e, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Indefatigablene&s;s of them.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="section">
<P N="1">1. Suitable are the &s;pirits of Saints to the Lord Chri&s;t. Chri&s;t and the things of Chri&s;t, and the &s;pirit of a Saint &s;o &s;uite,</P>
<P>That his Spirit hath onely a &s;ympathy with them,</P>
<P>And they onely can &s;atisfie his Spi|rit.</P>
<P>The &s;ympathy of a good mans &s;pirit is with the things of Chri&s;t. His heart hath a kind of Antipathy to things of an other nature, Even the things of the world his Spirit oppo&s;es, refu&s;es, ri&s;es, if of them any tenders be to take him off from Chri&s;t. When <HI>Valence</HI> the Emperour &s;ent to <HI>Ba&s;il</HI> the offer of great preferments, the good mans &s;pi|rit was up in an anger, and made this an|&s;wer, <HI>Let him offer the&s;e ratles to chil|dren, and not to Chri&s;tians.</HI> When &s;ome bade &s;top <HI>Luthers</HI> mouth with prefer|ments, one of his Adver&s;aries an&s;wered, <HI>It is no boot, that Germane Beast cares not
<PB N="301" REF="171"> for gold.</HI> God him&s;elf (&s;ayes <HI>Luther) &s;hall not put me off with the&s;e things. Hooper</HI> when one offered him a pardon for life if he would recant, he cryed out, <HI>If you love my &s;oul, away with it: For Gods &s;ake away, away with it:</HI> But to &s;uch men the things of Chri&s;t, truths of Chri&s;t, waies of Chri&s;t, Words of Chri&s;t, Commands of Chri&s;t do ac|cord.</P>
<P>And herein al&s;o are the Spirits of Gods Saints &s;atisfied. How was it with that holy man who replyed to his friend, Speak to me while you will, no words can &s;atisfie me except you men|tion Chri&s;t. Write to me what you plea&s;e, it will not &s;atisfie me, unle&s;&s;e in your letters I may read Chri&s;t. Give me never &s;o much I cannot be &s;atisfied, except you help me to &s;ome|what of Chri&s;t. Chri&s;t and the things of Chri&s;t were onely things that &s;atisfied the &s;pirit of this precious man. Suitable things are ready to run into one ano|ther, to mix, and hold fa&s;t together. This made <HI>Nebuchadnezzars</HI> Image to fall a&s;under: becau&s;e it was made up of &s;uch un&s;uitable matter, things of &s;uch a differing nature. This makes famous
<PB N="302" REF="172"> profe&s;&s;ors to fall, and divers to de&s;ert Chri&s;t; becau&s;e the things of Chri&s;t do not &s;uite to their &s;pirits. The &s;pirits of &s;incere Saints are agreeable to gracious objects, the very frame of their hearts is fitted to the waies of truth and ho|line&s;&s;e. Among good things, with that which is be&s;t their &s;pirits be&s;t agree. The more holy and pure any per&s;on or Ordinance is, the better there with their &s;pirits accord. The new nature and &s;ettled temper of their &s;pirits is mo&s;t &s;uitable to the Lord him&s;elf, and may not they be in the Spirit upon the Lords Day?</P>
<P N="2">2. Capable are the &s;pirits of Gods &s;ervants to take in of the Lord large|ly.</P>
<P>Their hearts are compared to Vialls, <HI>Revel.</HI> 5.8. A Viall is a ve&s;&s;el narrow beneath, and wide above. The hearts and &s;pirits of good men are more clo&s;ed downward, and more open up|ward: Of enlarged capacities Chri&s;t|ward. And though of Chri&s;ts ful|ne&s;&s;e they have already received grace for grace, yet there is room to receive more. In the&s;e two we may comfortably conclude, there's room, viz.</P>
<LIST>
<PB N="303" REF="172">
<ITEM>Gods glorious heaven, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mans gracious heart.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>As God in his heaven hath more room for good men: So good men in their hearts have more room for God.</P>
<P>Holy mens &s;pirits are let out, and their hearts made wide,
<LIST>
<ITEM>By Godly &s;orrowes for &s;in, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>By earne&s;t de&s;ires for God.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>By Godly &s;orrowes Chri&s;tians ca&s;t out &s;in,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Beata ani|ma quae e&s;t in&s;tardomus Jacobi in qua nulla &s;imula<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hra, nulla effigies vanitatis. <HI>Amb.</HI> de fuga &s;ecu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> cap. <HI>5.</HI></NOTE> and &s;o make more room for Chri&s;t in their hearts. Hence the heart of a holy man is made as the hou&s;e of <HI>Jacob,</HI> in which is no place allowed for the lea&s;t repre&s;entation of vanity; the very images of evil thoughts are thrown out, and the whole hou&s;e is &s;et apart for the precious things of God; and the more plenty of the&s;e appearing, the more he labours heart-enlargement. As the rich man, <HI>Luk.</HI> 12. when he &s;aw plenty of Corn upon the ground, <HI>he pulls down his barns, and builds greater,</HI> that he may have more room to receive in &s;uch fruits: Thus a Godly man by repen|tance pulls down his heart, he &s;ees it is too narrow for the va&s;t things of God, and thereupon labours to make his heart as capacious as po&s;&s;ible. And by
<PB N="304" REF="173"> every penitential breaking, builds it better. By earne&s;t de&s;ires al&s;o after God he brings his heart into a better and bigger capacity. <HI>O whom, Lord, have I in heaven but thee, and who on earth do I de&s;ire be&s;ides thee?</HI> P&s;al. 73. Yea, for Sabbath-enjoyments of God, the Spi|rit of a pious man pants, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 42.1, 2. He even faints for more full fellow&s;hips and fruitions of God. As again&s;t &s;in he thinks his heart can never be clo&s;e enough &s;hut: So for God he thinks his heart can never be wide enough open. Of &s;in he would fain have le&s;&s;e, when he hath lea&s;t: and when he hath mo&s;t of God, he yet de&s;ires more. And by &s;uch wayes the &s;oul of a Saint is &s;et wider for God, and thus the &s;pirits of Chri&s;tians become more capable to take in more largely the things of the Lord; and may not they then be in the Spirit on the Lords day?</P>
<P N="3">3. Plyable are the &s;pirits of Gods people for the Lord to let out them|&s;elves freely. Their hearts towards the Lord are waxy and willing in all wayes of well-plea&s;ing, <HI>Judg.</HI> 5.9. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 110.3.</P>
<Q><L>Being oyled with an holy Unction,</L>
<PB N="305" REF="173">
<L>And wheeled with holy affections.</L></Q>
<P>The oyl of grace is poured upon the hidden man of the heart, which makes all the &s;piritual members of the new man to be agil and nimble for God. As it is &s;aid to Chri&s;t, <HI>Heb.</HI> 1.9. <HI>God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oyl of gladne&s;&s;e above thy fellowes:</HI> So may we &s;ay to the &s;oul of a Saint, God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oyl of grace and goodne&s;&s;e above thy fellowes. The heart it is fir&s;t and mo&s;t &s;anctified, and therefore may well be mo&s;t free and forward for God. In man no marvel the &s;en&s;itive powers and corporal parts are le&s;&s;e plyable. As the oyntment was fir&s;t and mo&s;t poured upon the head of <HI>Aaron,</HI> and from thence drops went down to his beard and skirts of his garments. Thus the oyl of grace is primarily and princi|pally upon the heart of a Chri&s;tian and from thence it de&s;cends into all the powers &amp; parts of the man, &s;o that this hath cau&s;e to come in fir&s;t, and come off free&s;t for God, as indeed it daily does. When other parts re&s;t, the heart runs. Yea, the heart of a holy man is &s;et upon &s;uch wheeles, as make it move quick for
<PB N="306" REF="174"> Chri&s;t; Judgement cleared, affections fired, 1 <HI>Chron.</HI> 29.3. <HI>I have</HI> (&s;ayes <HI>Da|vid) &s;et my affection to the hou&s;e of my God,</HI> and hence he was &s;o lively and liberal, labouring to lift up the honour of God in preparing for him a hou&s;e. The di&s;|po&s;itions and affections in the &s;oul of a Saint are &s;uch, as that his heart is prompt &amp; prepared for every precept, purpo&s;e and providence: <HI>O God, my heart is prepared, my heart is prepared</HI> (&s;ayes <HI>David.</HI>) One ob&s;erves how he doubles the expre&s;&s;ion, to imply he was willing to a differing condition.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Paratum cor meum ad pro&s;pera, pa|ratum ad adver&s;a, paratum ad &s;ublimia, paratum ad humilia, pa|ratum ad univer&s;a quae precepe|ris, &amp;c. <HI>Bern.</HI> Ser. <HI>2.</HI> de qua|drage&s;.</NOTE> If God would have him high or low, rich or poor, a &s;hepherd again, or a Prince &s;till: His heart was prepared, prepared. Thus is it with a pious man, his heart is prepared to put on after God in any condition, his Spirit is upon &s;uch wheels of love to the Lord, that he is oft carried out beyond and before he is aware. <HI>Cant.</HI> 6.12. <HI>Or ever I was aware my &s;oul made me as the Chariots of Amminadib.</HI> The &s;pirit of the Spou&s;e did unex|pectedly ri&s;e and run out after Chri&s;t, as a Chariot upon the wheeles. And are the &s;pirits of Gods Saints &s;et into &s;uch a frame for the Lord, and may not
<PB N="307" REF="174"> they be in the Spirit on the Lords day?</P>
<P N="4">4. Indefatigable are the &s;pirits of Gods people in following the Lord. In Gods wor&s;hip their &s;pirits are un|wearied, when their bodies are weaken|ed. Their &s;pirits may be weary in, but are never weary of any wor&s;hip of God, or any work for God in his wor|&s;hip; their hearts and minds
<LIST>
<ITEM>Being pitched down,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And girt up for God.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The heart of a holy man is pitched down, and firmly re&s;olved for God, his mind does not fluctuate, hover, and waver in un&s;ettled uncertainties, he is not upon demurs and di&s;putes, confers not with fle&s;h and blood.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Baron. <HI>An.</HI> 261. <HI>num.</HI> 30.</NOTE> <HI>Cyprian</HI> that ble&s;&s;ed Martyr, when the Governour bad him advi&s;e with him&s;elf: an&s;wered, <HI>Sir do your office; in a righteous cau&s;e I am not now to re&s;olve.</HI> A man of a wa|vering &s;pirit is &s;oon wearied out, and wrought off from God. A good man in|deed his heart is fixed for God; though he be not fixed firmely in the wayes of God: yet for the wayes of God he is firmely fixed. Though he hath &s;ome doubtings in his way, yet he hath not
<PB N="308" REF="175"> doubtings of his way, and &s;o walks on unweariedly. His heart will not be tyred, or turned out. Yea, the heart of a holy man is girt up, and clo&s;ely united to God, his mind is not divided be|tween the Lord and the world. <HI>Frede|rick</HI> the Elector of <HI>Saxony,</HI> who was a pri&s;oner to <HI>Charles</HI> the fifth, being offered liberty and dignity if he would come to Ma&s;&s;e: an&s;wered, I have but one Ma&s;ter, one &s;oul, and one Saviour: I dare not &s;erve two. A man of a double heart, that halts between God and <HI>Baal,</HI> God and Mammon, never holds out. He may &s;eem for a while to out-run many, but he will be weary. A gracious man his &s;pirit is not onely for God gathered in one: but it is &s;o knit up as to be one with God, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6.17. <HI>He that is joyned to the Lord, is one Spirit:</HI> and hence he holds out to the end: never weary. And they who in the wayes of the Lord are of &s;uch unwearied &s;pirits, may not they be in the Spirit on the Lords day? There is none of Gods Servants, but po&s;&s;ibly now may be as &s;ome of the &s;ervants of God cettainly have been, upon the Lords day in the Spirit.</P>
<PB N="309" REF="175">
<P><HI>I was in the Spirit upon the Lords day.</HI></P>
<P>The USE IS,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of Information.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Of Exhortation.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. This may clearly declare the ill ca&s;e of two kinds of men, neither of which are in the Spirit on the Lords day.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Some that are not, nor po&s;&s;ibly can;</ITEM>
<ITEM>Some that p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ibly may, yet are not.</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="section">
<P N="1">1. 'Tis the &s;ad ca&s;e of all un&s;anctified men, they neither are, nor po&s;&s;ibly can be upon the Lords day in the Spirit. This will plainly appear, con&s;idering
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both what they be,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And what they do.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Men remaining in a &s;inful e&s;tate, we may ob&s;erve what they be,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both privatively,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And po&s;itively.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Privatively,] They cannot be in the Spirit on the Lords day, becau&s;e
<Q><L>They be without the Spirit of the Lord,</L>
<L>And towards the Lord they be without &s;pirit.</L></Q></P>
<P N="1">1. As men in natures e&s;tate are with|out God, and without Chri&s;t, <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 2.12. &s;o they are without the holy Spirit, <HI>Rom.</HI> 8.9. <HI>Jude</HI> 19. As when man was
<PB N="310" REF="176"> to be created, the three Per&s;ons they all concur <HI>Let us make man,</HI> Gen. 1.26. And no &s;ooner is man corrupted, but they all conclude with a Let us leave man. So that every &s;inful man is for|&s;aken of God the Father, Son and holy Gho&s;t. Such men be without Gods holy and ble&s;&s;ed Spirit, whether we con|&s;ider
<LIST>
<ITEM>Some more prophane,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Others more refined.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Men that expre&s;&s;e nothing but vice and vanity, &s;ons of <HI>Belial,</HI> chief &s;ervants to the Divel, &s;uch as do that for the Divel as he cannot do for him&s;elf. Sa|tan him&s;elf, becau&s;e of &s;piritual being, cannot commit many &s;ins. But men that herein they may fulfil his will, they run into drunkenne&s;&s;e, and all kind of corporal uncleanne&s;&s;e; they &s;wear and cur&s;e, &s;teale and commit adultery, and wallow in all worldly filthine&s;&s;e, and have they the Spirit of holine&s;&s;e? Men who&s;e mouthes are as that Gate of <HI>Je|ru&s;alem,</HI> out at which was carried forth all the filth of the City, <HI>Their throats are as open Sepulchres, their tongues are &s;et on fire of hell,</HI> and have they the holy Spirit of God in their hearts?</P>
<PB N="311" REF="176">
<P>Other men there are who profe&s;&s;e better. They &s;peak high, but live low. Their voice is <HI>Jacobs,</HI> but their hands are <HI>E&s;aus.</HI> Like <HI>Peters</HI> fi&s;h that had &s;ilver in the mouth, but none in the belly. Nothing of the &s;pirit appears in their waies, yet much of the Spirit may be heard in their words. As if the Dove were in their Arks onely, and none had the Spirit of God but they. Thus <HI>Muncer</HI> the <HI>Anabapti&s;t,</HI> while he called <HI>Luther</HI> a &s;piritle&s;&s;e man, a &s;il|ly &s;oule, one without the Spirit of God, he pretended him&s;elf to be all full of the Spirit, &amp;c. Men may think they have the Spirit; yet not have the Spirit which they think. And indeed, what|ever any unregenerate man think, they all are without the good Spirit of God. They cannot have the Spirit, who are not born of the Spirit; and they who never yet all their daies were born of the &s;pirit, they cannot be in the Spirit on the Lords Day. On the Lords Day a man may not be in the Spirit, that yet every day dwells the Spirit in him: And can they be on the Lords Day in the Spirit of God, who to this day have not Gods in-dwelling Spirit in them?</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="312" REF="177">2. Such men God-ward are without &s;pirit. As <HI>Ab&s;alom</HI> &s;tole away the peo|ples hearts from <HI>David:</HI> So &s;in and Satan hath enticed and taken away all the&s;e mens hearts from God, <HI>Ho&s;e.</HI> 4.11. Or el&s;e the world hath &s;o won upon them, that their hearts and &s;pirits are gone God-ward. The Queen of <HI>Sheba</HI> when &s;he was at King <HI>Solomons</HI> Court, and &s;aw the hou&s;e he had built, and the meat of his table, and the &s;itting of his &s;ervants, and the attendance of his Mini|&s;ters, and their apparell, and his cup|bearers, and his a&s;cent, &amp;c. There was no more &s;pirit in her, 1. <HI>King.</HI> 10.4, 5. Thus the honours, plea&s;ures and profits of the world do &s;o work upon the hearts of many, that they have no more &s;pirit left in them.</P>
<P>Without Spirit,] That is,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Without judgement to know, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Without courage to doe the will of God.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Without judgement to di&s;cern good, <HI>Ho&s;e</HI> 7.11. <HI>Ephraim</HI> is a &s;illy Dove, without heart. Gods Saints are as Inno|cent doves, without gall; and others are as &s;illy doves, without heart, without any wi&s;dom of &s;pirit. <HI>The &s;pirit of
<PB N="313" REF="177"> man</HI> (&s;ayes <HI>Solomon) is the candle of the Lord.</HI> Many a man is a dark Lant|horn without a candle, having in him no knowing &s;pirit to give him light, he gropes after God in the dark, <HI>Act.</HI> 17.23. So without courage to pur&s;ue any &s;aving good, or with&s;tand any de&s;tru|ctive evill, when they &s;hould &s;tand up in Gods cau&s;e, and &s;oules defence, they have no &s;pirit. <HI>Jo&s;hua.</HI> 5.1. <HI>When the Kings of the</HI> Amorites, <HI>and all the Kings of the</HI> Canaanites <HI>heard that the Lord had dryed up the waters of</HI> Jordan <HI>from before the Children of</HI> I&s;rael; <HI>&s;o th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t they were pa&s;&s;ed over, their hearts m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed, neither was there &s;pirit in them any more.</HI> We &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;everall men,</P>
<P>Who though &s;et in a &s;uperiour &s;ta|tion,</P>
<P>And though of Chri&s;t they make a vi&s;ible profe&s;&s;ion:</P>
<P>Yet if any difficultie appear, or dan|ger approach, they have no &s;pirit for God is or good, only their care is to &s;e|cure them&s;elves. The King of <HI>Navarre,</HI> when <HI>Beza</HI> blamed him for his &s;pirit|le&s;&s;ene&s;&s;e in the cau&s;e of Chri&s;t, he re|plyed, <HI>That for Chri&s;tian religion he would lanch no further to &s;ea, then if a
<PB N="314" REF="178"> &s;torm did ari&s;e, he might be &s;ure him&s;elf to return &s;afe to &s;hoare.</HI> Men who thus towards the Lord are without &s;pi|rit, they cannot be in the Spirit on the Lords Day.</P>
<P>Po&s;itively;] It is not po&s;&s;ible &s;uch per|&s;ons on the Lords Day &s;hould be in the Spirit: Becau&s;e
<LIST>
<HEAD>[In the fle&s;h.]</HEAD>
<ITEM>They be in the fle&s;h which is evill.</ITEM>
<ITEM>And they be in an Evill Spirit,</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Fle&s;h,] It is in &s;everal Texts taken for that which is lawfull and good, <HI>P&s;alme</HI> 79.2. <HI>Eph.</HI> 5.13. <HI>Rom.</HI> 9.3. 1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 7.18. But [Fle&s;h] ordinarily intimates that which is evill and naught, as mans naturall corruption and &s;infull conditi|on 1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 5.5. <HI>Colo&s;&s;.</HI> 2.13. <HI>Gala.</HI> 5.24. 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 4.6, &amp;c. In this fle&s;h are all un|regenerate men, <HI>Rom.</HI> 7.5. <HI>Rom.</HI> 8.8. Not onely (fle&s;h) in them, that is the ca&s;e of the be&s;t Chri&s;tians, <HI>Rom.</HI> 7.18. but in the fle&s;h, as a fi&s;h in the water. Not onely &s;in in them, but they in &s;in, as the Leviathan in the Sea; In &s;in they &s;port and take delight. They live in &s;in, and yet are dead in &s;in. Sin is as the Sepulchre in which they lie dead
<PB N="315" REF="178"> and buried, they lie in &s;in as a &s;wine in the &s;low. They are in &s;in as a Malefa|ctor in his fetters, in the Gall of bit|terne&s;&s;e, and in the bond of iniquity, <HI>Act.</HI> 8.23. They are &s;o in &s;in, as they are nothing but &s;in: &s;o in the fle&s;h, that they are all, and only fle&s;h. We may &s;ay of &s;uch mens per&s;ons, prayers, &s;ervices, hopes and hearts, as the Prophet of the <HI>Egyptian</HI> hor&s;es, they are fle&s;h, and not &s;pirit, <HI>I&s;ay.</HI> 31.3. The&s;e therefore cannot be <HI>in the Spirit on the Lords Day.</HI></P>
<P>Their fixed condition is in the fle&s;h.</P>
<P>Yea, on the Lords Day they cannot be in this good Spirit of God. For,
<LIST>
<ITEM>They have an evill &s;pirit in them,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And they are in an evill &s;pirit.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>An evill &s;pirit is in them, <HI>Eph.</HI> 2 2. <HI>The &s;pirit that now works in the children of di&s;obedience.</HI> The <HI>Greek</HI> hath two [in's] The Spirit does inwork in them: to &s;ignifie how exceeding inward Satan that evill &s;pirit is at work in wicked men, Every &s;infull &s;oule is &s;uch an Ark, wherein is the Raven, though not the Dove; the Divell, though not the Spirit of God. Though in them is not the Holy Spirit, yet the unclean &s;pirit
<PB N="316" REF="179"> is in them, <HI>Matth.</HI> 12.44. <HI>The unclean &s;pirit &s;aith, I will return into my hou&s;e.</HI> [The Divels hou&s;e is every evil heart. We &s;ee there the hou&s;e may be [&s;wept and garni&s;ht,] yet the Divels &s;wept.] A man may be free from &s;ome gro&s;&s;e pollutions, horrid thoughts of Athei&s;me, Bla&s;phemy, Butchery of the Lords Lambs may be thrown out of the heart.</P>
<P>Garni&s;hed,] A man may be furni&s;h|ed with gifts, parts, performances a fair outward profe&s;&s;ion, &s;ome fla&s;hes of good affection; yet he may be the hou&s;e wherein the Divel dwels, <HI>Jam.</HI> 4.5. <HI>Do ye think the Scripture &s;aith in vain, The &s;pirit that dwells in us lu&s;teth to envy?</HI> He &s;peaks of [us] as men, not of [us] as Saints. In all men natural|ly the evil &s;pirit dwells. A &s;pirit that moves to all lu&s;ts of envy, hypocri&s;ie, pride, infidelity, &s;en&s;uality. Can they who have &s;uch an evil &s;pirit in them, be in the Spirit on the Lords day?</P>
<P>Yea, but this is wor&s;e, they are in an evil &s;pirit, <HI>Mark</HI> 1.23. <HI>And there was a man with an unclean &s;pirit.</HI> In an unclean &s;pirit, the Greek reads it. So, <HI>Mark</HI> 5.2. <HI>When Je&s;us was come out of the &s;hip,
<PB N="317" REF="179"> there met him a man in an unclean &s;pirit.</HI> Every &s;inful man is in Satan as in a Pri&s;on, in the Divel as in a Dungeon. <HI>In the power of the Divel,</HI> Act. 26.18. <HI>In the &s;nare of the Divel,</HI> 2 Tim. 2.26. In the mouth of the Divel, as <HI>Jonah</HI> in the belly of the Whale. Yea, &s;inful men they are &s;trongly acted, and they do &s;trangely act in this evil &s;pirit, and ther|fore they cannot be in any &s;pirit that is good, upon the LORDS DAY.</P>
<P N="2">2. Such cannot be on the Lords day in the Spirit, appears by what they daily do,
<Q><L>Both in re&s;pect of their own &s;pirits God-ward,</L>
<L>And in re&s;pect of the Spirit of God.</L></Q></P>
<P>They cannot be in the Spirit on the Lords day, For
<Q><L>They draw their &s;pirits from the Lord,</L>
<L>And again&s;t the Lord they turn their &s;pirits.</L></Q></P>
<P N="1">1. From the Lord they withdraw their &s;pirirs. Whereas Gods dear Saints, when their bodies are brought into bonds, or are bound upon their beds; yet then they in holy wor&s;hips
<PB N="318" REF="180"> engage their hearts to approach near to God, <HI>Jer.</HI> 30.21. But other men when in outward wor&s;hips their bodies be brought in to God, yet then they re|move their hearts far off from God, <HI>E&s;ay</HI> 29.13. A good man watches his heart, to hold it in to God; he does not &s;lip away his heart from God, though while he is with God his heart may give him the &s;lip. This made a holy man in the mid&s;t of prayer cry out, <HI>O Lord,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Augu&s;t. <HI>in</HI> 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 7.<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">7.</NOTE> <HI>my heart hath left both thee and me:</HI> But every &s;inful man, he takes his heart off, and turns it away from God. As the Levite, <HI>Judg.</HI> 19 divided his Concu|bine, and &s;ent her &s;everal parts into all the coa&s;ts of <HI>I&s;rael:</HI> thus many a man when he &s;hould bring in his heart, and knit it up for God, he divides it, and &s;ends it into all the parts of the world, leaving none for God. True Chri&s;ti|ans, though God makes them &s;uffer, yet their hearts &s;tick to God: All this is com upon us, yet our heart is not turned back, though thou ha&s;t &s;ore broken us, &amp;c. <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 44.17. yea, when Satan makes them &s;in, yet their hearts hold to God. 'Tis &s;aid of <HI>Peter,</HI> his heart did not for|&s;ake Chri&s;t, when his tongue denied
<PB N="319" REF="180"> him.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Corde tenuit illum quem voce nega|vit. <HI>Greg.</HI></NOTE> But the&s;e men when they do not outwardly &s;in, yet in heart they go away from God. They do not onely in heart fall back, but they draw back their hearts from God, <HI>Heb.</HI> 10.38. Now they that thus daily draw back their &s;pirits from God, they cannot be in the Spirit on the Lords day.</P>
<P N="2">2. Again&s;t the Lord they turn their &s;pirits. The &s;pirits of all unconverted are turned again&s;t God,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both by Original corruption,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And by actual rebellion.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><HI>Rom.</HI> 8.7. <HI>The carnal mind is enmity again&s;t God.</HI> 'Tis more then if he had &s;aid: The carnal man is an enemy to God. The mind] the be&s;t part of cor|rupt man; is enmity] which notes mon|&s;trous malevolence. The Greek word is in the plural [Enmities,] To import multiplyed perver&s;ne&s;&s;e. As there are many excellencies in God for man: &s;o there are many enmities in man again&s;t God. Enmities again&s;t all the Attri|butes of God. Enmities again&s;t all the Ordinances of God. Enmities again&s;t all the actings of God in the world. The &s;pirit of man from his birth is bit|terly bent, and utterly turned again&s;t
<PB N="320" REF="181"> God. But further every man does act up his &s;pirit in rebellion again&s;t God ble&s;&s;ed for ever. Turns his &s;pirit again&s;t God. This <HI>Eliphas</HI> does fal&s;ly charge upon that good man <HI>Job,</HI> 15.13. But this charge may truly be drawn up again&s;t every evil man, he turns his &s;pi|rit, &amp; makes his mind to &s;well again&s;t God. The lea&s;t ri&s;ings of &s;pirit again&s;t God, a good man groans under and grieves for.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Hieron.</HI> epe&s;t. <HI>32.</HI> ad Abiga.</NOTE> <HI>There is nothing</HI> (once &s;aid a precious man) <HI>that I have all my life more laboured again&s;t, then a &s;welling mind, a &s;tiffe neck, and a &s;tubborn heart.</HI> A wicked man he hardens his heart, &s;tif|fens his neck, and turns his &s;pirit again&s;t God. He heightens his in|ward corruption, and becomes a hearty enemy again&s;t God by thoughts, words, and deeds, <HI>Col</HI> 1.21. Or if there be out|ward re&s;traints from evil works; yet his &s;pirit is turned again&s;t God. The impenitent theefe when his body was nailed to the Cro&s;&s;e, yet his &s;pirit was turned again&s;t Chri&s;t. A mans body may be bound from &s;in, and yet his heart bent again&s;t God. The bow of the bad heart may be bent up, though no arrowes of evil works or words be &s;hot
<PB N="321" REF="181"> out.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Peter Mar|tyr <HI>in Gene&s;.</HI></NOTE> A Learned Writer makes the Rain-bow in the heavens an admirable Embleme of peace, <HI>For though</HI> (&s;ayes he) <HI>we &s;ee a bow, yet we &s;ee no &s;tring or ar|row.</HI> An unregenerate mans heart is a bow that hath both &s;trings and arrows. The &s;trings of the bow, are the corrup|tions and ill di&s;po&s;itions of the heart, and the arrows are the evil cogitations and thoughts thereof. A multitude of the&s;e arrows a man lets fly in the face of God, which argues the acted enmity of his heart again&s;t God; he is at heart|warre with, his &s;pirit is bent again&s;t the Lord: &s;uch cannot be in the Spirit on the Lords day.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, on the Lords day the&s;e can|not be in the Spirit; For
<LIST>
<ITEM>The gifts of the Spirit they abu&s;e, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The grace of the Spirit they oppo&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. The Spirit of God in the gifts thereof they pervert. The Holy Gho&s;t helps them to knowledge, remem|brance, utterance, &amp;c. The&s;e they take and turn them to a wrong u&s;e. As the <HI>I&s;raleites,</HI> who took their ear-rings, jew|ells, and bracelets of gold, and there|with made an Idol. As the Divell he hath large knowledge, and great abili|ties,
<PB N="322" REF="182"> but of all he makes an ill u&s;e: &s;o it is his de&s;ign upon &s;infull men that whatever good things God gives them for his prai&s;e, and their profit, may be imployed to their harme, and Gods di&s;|honour. As <HI>Eve</HI> whom God gave to <HI>Adam</HI> for his meete&s;t help, was made the Engine of his greate&s;t hurt: Of this rib (&s;ayes one) the divell made a dart, and wounded man to death with that &s;hould have &s;weetened his life.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ba&s;il:</NOTE> Divers act the Divells part: they take things given them for their chiefe&s;t good, and turn them to the greate&s;t evil.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Co~rruptio optimi pe&s;&s;imi.</NOTE> As the divells could never have been &s;uch vile and venemous &s;pirits as they are, had they not once had ex|cellencies above other creatures; And &s;o there are &s;everal that could never have been &s;o tran&s;cendently &s;infull in prodigious opinions and practices as now they be, had they not had rare parts, and admirable abilities above their Brethren. And can we think that they who thus abu&s;e the gifts of the Spirit, &s;hould be in the <HI>Spirit on the Lords Day?</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. The Spirit of God in the graces thereof they re&s;i&s;t, <HI>Act.</HI> 7.51. <HI>Ye &s;tif|necked,
<PB N="323" REF="182"> and uncircumci&s;ed in heart and cares, ye do alwaies re&s;i&s;t the H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ly Gho&s;t;</HI> viz. in all his gracious workings. Men who make provi&s;ion for the fle&s;h to ful|fil the lu&s;ts thereof, they make oppo|&s;ition again&s;t the Spirit, and with&s;tand the works thereof. And though as with bellowes they blow up the Divells fire; yet as with buckets of filth they quench out the &s;parks of the Spirit. As when the Angells were entred into <HI>Lots</HI> hou&s;e, the men of <HI>Sodom</HI> from every quarter compa&s;&s;ed the hou&s;e by force and fury to fetch them forth <HI>Gene&s;.</HI> 19.3. Thus when any good motions enter into the hearts and minds of &s;ome men, they are up in arms, and out of quiet, till they can cru&s;h them, and ca&s;t them forth. How oft do they (in effect) &s;ay to the Spirit, as <HI>Pharaoh</HI> to <HI>Mo&s;es. Get thee from me, &s;ee my face no more,</HI> till at length the Spirit replyes to them, as <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> to <HI>Pharaoh,</HI> Be it as thou-ha&s;t &s;aid: <HI>Lo, I will &s;ee thy face no more for ever,</HI> Exodus 10.28.29.</P>
<P>Some when they are in &s;oule affright|ed, they would have the peace of the Spirit to calme them: but though they are in &s;in polluted, they will not have
<PB N="324" REF="183"> the grace of the Spirit to clean&s;e them. And becau&s;e they regard not the grace of the Spirit, they re&s;i&s;t the Spirit of grace. And can &s;uch be <HI>in the Spirit up|on the Lords Day?</HI> Indeed the Lords Day is the main time they thus gain&s;ay the Spirit of God, upon the Sabbath-day they mo&s;t beat back Gods ble&s;&s;ed Spirit, and can they this day be in the Spirit?</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> Upon the day of the Sabbath &s;ure &s;ome &s;infull men meet with Spi|rituall movings: and therefore they may this day be in the Spirit.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer,</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>By way of conce&s;&s;ion, &amp;</ITEM>
<ITEM>By way of di&s;tinction.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Upon the Lords day, as at other times, men may by a fal&s;e &s;pirit be for|cibly moved, &amp; have &s;tronge impul&s;es, &s;trange raptures and revelations from a lying &s;pirit. As the Divell can transform him&s;elf into an Angell of Light: &s;o he can conforme him|&s;elf to the Spirit of Light. And as Satan can in &s;hape a&s;&s;ume the body of man; &s;o he can in &s;hew a&s;&s;imulate the Spirit of God. 1 <HI>John</HI> 4.1. <HI>Beloved, believe not every &s;pirit, but try the &s;pirits, whether they are of God or no.</HI> Whence we note, 1. That there are &s;pirits which
<PB N="325" REF="183"> pretend to be of God and are not. 2. That &s;uch meere pretending &s;pirits may much re&s;emble the true Spirit of God. 3. That their re&s;emblance may pro|ceed &s;o farre, that profe&s;&s;ing Chri&s;tians may be prone to believe they are the very Spirit of God. 4. That &s;uch &s;pi|rits may not be believed, a di&s;covery of them is to be made by tryall. 5. That the tryall to di&s;cover &s;pirits to be not of God, mu&s;t be exact and prudent. Try the &s;pirits, viz. as skilfull Lapidaries do their &s;tones, or as wi&s;e Gold&s;miths do their mettalls, by touch and weight, as the word imports. Now that men may &s;o try, as to di&s;cern whether upon the Sabbath, as at other &s;ea&s;ons, they are moved by the Spirit of God; Be it known, that</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="section">
<P>The Spirit which is,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Swelling,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Smiting,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Roving,<NOTE PLACE="marg">'Tis not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Spi|rit of God.</NOTE></ITEM>
<ITEM>Renting,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ranting.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Driving,</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. A &s;welling &s;pirit, that puff<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> men up with pride is not the Spirit of God. One of the chief le&s;&s;ons taught by Gods ho|ly Spirit, is humility of heart.</P>
<P>And upon this account Gods Spirit &s;ugge&s;ts to a man,
<LIST>
<ITEM>His Iniquity, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>His mortality.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<PB N="326" REF="184">
<P>When mans heart begins to &s;well, the Spirit of God puts in.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Berna. Augu&s;t. <HI>Serm.</HI> 21.</NOTE> Chri&s;t was hum|ble, yet without &s;in, and &s;hall a &s;inner be proud? What? thou proud, du&s;t and a&s;h|es? For pride God plunged Angells out of heaven, and will he &s;pare thee a rotten creature, a worm that mu&s;t die to+morrow? Swelling in heaven Angells &s;unk, and &s;halt thou proud upon a dung|hill pa&s;&s;e unpuni&s;hed?</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ambro&s;.</HI> lib. de vidu|is.</NOTE><HI>As Chri&s;t</HI> (&s;ayes a good Author) <HI>cured the blindne&s;&s;e of the man by putting clay upon his eyes, &s;o the Spirit of Chri&s;t cures the &s;welling pride of mans heart by putting thoughts into his mind of his mor|tall and dying condition.</HI> That while he lives he is but a piece of warme clay. That is, the Spirit of God which as it en|larges a mans abilities, it increa&s;es the mans humility. As <HI>Nazianzene</HI> &s;aid of <HI>Athana&s;ius. He was high in worth, and humble in heart.</HI> Of &s;uch in&s;tances the Holy Scriptures are full: But &s;ome their &s;oules are &s;welled with pride, as <HI>Simon Magus,</HI> who gave out that <HI>him|&s;elf was &s;ome great one</HI> Act. 8.9. Such a one was <HI>Muncer</HI> the Anabapti&s;t in <HI>Germany</HI> as <HI>Sleiden</HI> reports <HI>his proud pranks, and bragging boa&s;ts;</HI> &s;uch a one
<PB N="327" REF="184"> is that man of &s;in, <HI>who exalteth him&s;elf above all that is called God,</HI> 2 <HI>The&s;&s;.</HI> 2.4. The Spirit of God it is not that moves the&s;e men.</P>
<P N="2">2. A &s;miting &s;pirit, that makes men clamorous and contentious is not the Spirit of God;<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Chry&s;o&s;t.</HI> homil. ad Pop. Ant. <HI>36.</HI> et <HI>51.</HI></NOTE> the Spirit of God it makes men peaceable, pittifull. To act pitty and &s;hew mercy (&s;ayes a good man) is a more glorious work then to rai&s;e the dead, or to build temples for God. Yet this le&s;&s;on men learn through the help of Gods holy Spirit. A meek and a quiet &s;pirit. Such a &s;pirit acted in <HI>Abraham,</HI> Gene&s;. 13.8. <HI>And</HI> Abraham <HI>&s;aid to</HI> Lot, <HI>let there be no &s;trife, I pray thee, between me and thee, or between my herd|men and thy herd-men, for we are Bre|thren. Is not the whole land before thee? take either the right hand or the left,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Abraham</HI> &s;aid [though he were the Elder and Superiour, <HI>Let there be no &s;trife.</HI>] His &s;pirit did &s;o incline to peace, that he would not have the lea&s;t breach: I pray thee;] he begged agree|ment, &s;o greatly did his &s;oul de&s;ire it. <HI>I &s;corn,</HI> (&s;ayes <HI>Luther</HI> to the Pa&s;tors of <HI>Stratsburge) that any &s;hould be more earne&s;t then I for peace.</HI> Brotherly
<PB N="328" REF="185"> peace, and bowells of pitty are the fruits of the Spirit, <HI>Gala.</HI> 5.22 Like|wi&s;e long-&s;uffering, gentlene&s;&s;e, meek|ne&s;&s;e, temperance. It is an evill &s;pirit, that makes men tumultuous, mutinous, contentious, apt to &s;mite both with hand and tongue, 2. <HI>Chron.</HI> 18.23. <HI>And Zedeki|ah &s;mote</HI> Micaiah <HI>on the cheek, &s;aying, Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me to &s;peak to thee?</HI> It was not the Spirit of the Lord, but a lying &s;pirit that moved <HI>Zedekiah</HI> again&s;t <HI>Micaiah.</HI></P>
<P>Such a &s;pirit wrought in them again&s;t the Prophet <HI>Jer:</HI> 18.18. <HI>Come, let us &s;mite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.</HI> A fal&s;e &s;pirit is &s;o all for &s;peaking, that it cares not to hear, 1 <HI>Joh.</HI> 4.6. <HI>Hereby we know the Spirit of truth, and the &s;pirit of error. He that is not of God, heareth not us.</HI> Thus a <HI>Manichee</HI> furiou&s;ly conte&s;ting with <HI>Augu&s;tine,</HI> clamoured and cryed out, Hear me, hear me. To whom the good man mode&s;tly an&s;wered. Neither hear me, or I thee, but let us both hear the ble&s;&s;ed Apo&s;tle. Some they are all upon &s;peaking, wording of it, with a full and fierce mouth again&s;t others. As <HI>Sam&s;ons</HI> foxes that had fire on their
<PB N="329" REF="185"> tailes, and &s;et all the fields on a flame: So &s;ome have &s;uch a fire on their tonges, that they &s;et Cities and Countreys in a blaze.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e movings &s;uch men have, are not from the Spirit of God.</P>
<P N="3">3. A driving &s;pirit, that hurries men to move about matters, wherein they do not con&s;ider, or con&s;ult
<LIST>
<ITEM>Times, or</ITEM>
<ITEM>Means:</ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Grounds,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or ends.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>But on they go, this is not the Spirit of God. Gods Spirit moving to any great matter does not drive, but draw, and &s;o leads men as to let them
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both con&s;ider with them&s;elves,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And con&s;ult with others.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Whether the time be &s;ea&s;onable, <HI>Viz.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>The means approvable,</ITEM>
<ITEM>The grounds warrantable,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And the ends comfortable.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>When Gods Spirit is the mover, a man &s;o examines the matter about which he is moved, that</P>
<P N="1">1. He con&s;iders if the time be fit he is moved in; He knowes that which is untimely is uncomely, things being beautiful in their &s;ea&s;on, <HI>Eccl.</HI> 3.</P>
<P N="2">2. He con&s;iders if the means be
<PB N="330" REF="186"> right he is moved by, and that which he is to make u&s;e of. For, as the lea&s;t fal&s;e weight is not allowed for the get|ting of the large&s;t gain: No more is the lea&s;t evil lawful for the attaining of the greate&s;t good.</P>
<P N="3">3. He con&s;iders if the grounds be &s;ure he is moved on:
<LIST>
<ITEM>Not &s;ucce&s;&s;e in the world,</ITEM>
<ITEM>But an expre&s;&s;e from the Lord.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>A warrant from Gods revealed will in his Word: for that onely can bear him out in his obedience.</P>
<P N="4">4. He con&s;iders if the ends be &s;afe and good he is moved to: not onely in re&s;pect of his purpo&s;e and intendment of good therein, but in re&s;pect of Gods promi&s;e and engagement for good thereupon. Such a man is certain|ly moved by the good Spirit of God.</P>
<P>Yea, and in re&s;pect of others; Coun&s;el He both asks And takes
<LIST>
<ITEM>That both from God,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And men.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>In holy prayer he humbly asks coun&s;el of God. When <HI>David</HI> had lo&s;t all by a Troop of the <HI>Amalekites</HI> hor&s;e who had plundred <HI>Ziklag,</HI> his &s;pirit &s;parkled to be up, and after them. But <HI>David</HI> fir&s;t calls for <HI>Abiathar</HI> the Prie&s;t to bring the
<PB N="331" REF="186"> Ephod, and enquired of the Lord &s;ay|ing, Shall I pur&s;ue after this Troop? and &s;hall I overtake them? 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 30. Thus <HI>Jeho&s;haphat</HI> before he would march with <HI>Ahab</HI> to <HI>Ramoth-Gilead,</HI> he de&s;ires all the Prophets of God, and God by the Prophet <HI>Micaiah</HI> might be con&s;ulted with. <HI>Ahab</HI> tran&s;ported with a fal&s;e &s;pirit pre&s;&s;es onely, Hor&s;e and away. Let <HI>Micaiah</HI> &s;ay what he will. To <HI>Ramoth-Gilead</HI> he mu&s;t, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 18. Whereas coun&s;el given a good man takes, and turnes his de&s;ignes. So <HI>David</HI> when he was with his men upon the march again&s;t the hou&s;e of <HI>Nabal, Abigail</HI> meets him, and he &s;tops upon her advice, ble&s;&s;ing God that he &s;hed no blood, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 25. Now an evil &s;pi|rit having &s;prung a de&s;ign, at lea&s;t &s;eemingly good; yet violently provokes, and impetuou&s;ly pre&s;&s;es to pro&s;ecute men, not con&s;idering or con&s;ulting, ex|cept with &s;uch as are on the &s;ame mind. No &s;eeking to God, except &s;ome prayer as a colour. They fir&s;t re&s;olve their bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and then go to prayer, then ask coun&s;el; but if contrary come, they ca&s;t off all. Yea, this &s;pirit it drives and will rarely leave, or let them have
<PB N="332" REF="187"> time to take advice. Satan that evil &s;pirit in the Serpent, having upon <HI>Eves</HI> &s;ight of the plea&s;ant fruit begun to move, gave her no time to &s;eek God, confer with her husband, or con&s;ider the &s;ad events, onely eat &s;he mu&s;t. So <HI>Judas,</HI> the Divel &s;ugge&s;ting a Booty to betray his Ma&s;ter, he immediately goes out, <HI>Joh.</HI> 13. ri&s;es from Supper even when the be&s;t di&s;h was to come, as the Learn|ed conceive, he never &s;tayes to &s;peak a word, but away about his work. He con&s;iders not what guilt of blood he &s;hould bring, <HI>Matth.</HI> 27.3. <HI>Then</HI> Judas <HI>which betrayed him, when he &s;aw what was done, he repented him&s;elf, &amp;c.</HI> It &s;eems he thought things would never have come to that. That &s;pirit which thus drives men in con&s;iderately, precipitate|ly, &amp;c. 'tis not the Spirit of God.</P>
<P N="4">4. A roving &s;pirit that wheeles and whurries men obout is not the Spirit of God. Men rove.]</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 78.8. <HI>E&s;ay</HI> 19.14. <HI>Jam.</HI> 1.6, 7, 8.</NOTE>Ob&s;erve,
<LIST>
<ITEM>From what, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>In what.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>There is a &s;pirit that in moving makes men to rove, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<Q><L>Ordinarily from the rules of Scrip|ture,</L>
<PB N="333" REF="187">
<L>And often from the rules of Rea|&s;on.</L></Q>
<P>Scripture-rules men rove from. They will make Scripture go with them as far as ever they can; and being they mu&s;t go further, they leave it. They wre&s;t and rack Scripture, and &s;tretch it as far as for their own advantage. Thus that wicked &s;pirit did with our dear Lord, <HI>Matth.</HI> 4. <HI>Thus doe &s;uch un&s;ta|ble &s;pirits in the&s;e la&s;t dayes,</HI> 2 Pet. 3.16. They make holy Scriptures, as their hired &s;ervants, who when they will no further &s;erve their de&s;ign, they turn them off. Every good man moved and managed by Gods good Spirit, &s;ayes to Scripture as <HI>Ruth</HI> to <HI>Naomi, Where thou goe&s;t, I will go: where thou &s;taye&s;t, I will &s;tay, thy God &s;hall be my God, and thy peo|ple my people; nothing but death &s;hall part thee and me. Sozomen</HI> reports of <HI>Con|&s;tantine,</HI> that whatever was pre&s;&s;ed, he would &s;ay, Bring me the Book of God; when things were di&s;puted, and various wayes urged, he u&s;ed &s;till to &s;tand up and call for Gods Book commanding all &s;hould there &s;ettle, and none from thence &s;werve. That &s;pirit which in mo|ving men makes them &s;werve and rove
<PB N="334" REF="188"> from Gods good Word, is not the Spirit of God.</P>
<P>Yea, beyond the rules of rea&s;on, as well as Scripture men are made to rove through an ill-moving &s;pirit. Hence they roll and rove,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both from u&s;ing rea&s;on,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And from rea&s;on u&s;ed.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>They do not u&s;e that rea&s;on which might &s;tay them&s;elves. From men of no rea&s;on the Apo&s;tle prays he may be delivered. <HI>That we may be delivered from unrea&s;onable men,</HI> 2 The&s;&s;. 3.2. Nei|ther can that rea&s;on which others u&s;e, &s;tay them. As they have not rea&s;on to rule them&s;elves, no more will they be ruled by rea&s;on. Grounds of rea&s;on, and &s;trength of arguments will no more bound nor bind them then green withs could <HI>Sam&s;on.</HI> The things in which an evil &s;pirit moving makes men to rove, are
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both inward,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And outward. <HI>Viz.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>In their opinions,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And affections.
<LIST>
<ITEM>In their di&s;cour&s;es,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And cour&s;es.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Men of rolling &s;pirits who hold many things, yet hold to nothing. Like tho&s;e <HI>Arrians</HI> of whom <HI>Athana&s;ius</HI> reports, now
<PB N="335" REF="188"> they held one thing, and anon another, and never were at any certain &s;tay:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Socrat. <HI>Scho. lib.</HI> 1. <HI>cap.</HI> 25.</NOTE> wandring Stars, fixed to no Orb, Me|teors carried about with every gu&s;t, as children to&s;&s;ed to and fro with every wind, <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 4.14. They like and di&s;like, cry up, and cry down; hot and cold, ramble, and re&s;t at no point, un&s;table in all their wayes: Con&s;tantly incon|&s;tant, men given to change,<NOTE PLACE="marg">See <HI>Seneca.</HI> lib. de tranq.</NOTE> and that love to wander, as un&s;etled as the waves of the Sea. Such Chri&s;tians even Hea|thens condemn. Such motions are not from the Spirit of God.</P>
<P N="5">5. A renting &s;pirit, that moves men to make divi&s;ions and fractions, is not the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God, 'tis
<LIST>
<HEAD>All is uniting.</HEAD>
<ITEM>The Spirit of faith,</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Spirit of love, &amp;</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Spirit of patience.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>By faith the Spirit unites and knits us up to God, and by love the Spirit unites and knits us one unto another, and by patience the Spirit unites and knits each one within him&s;elf. And for want of the Spirit of God in the&s;e graces, there are a multitude of &s;ad &s;everings. For want of faith a man breaks and
<PB N="336" REF="189"> falls off from God. For want of love a man breaks and falls off from his Bre|thren. And for want of patience a man breaks in pieces, and falls a&s;under with|in him&s;elf.</P>
<P>All evidences an evil &s;pirit pre&s;ent and prevalent. <HI>Mark.</HI> 9. <HI>There is a man po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with a &s;pirit that did oft-times ca&s;t him into the water, and into the fire, and where&s;oever it did take him, it did tear him, that he gna&s;hed his teeth, and foamed at the mouth.</HI> O what a &s;pirit does po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e &s;uch men, as does ca&s;t them into that water, whereby their love is quenched, and into that fire whereby their wrath is kindled, and &s;o takes them as it tears them with impatiency, infidelity, and &s;eparation from Chri&s;tian-&s;ociety. Sure &s;uch have not the Spirit of God, <HI>Jude</HI> 19. <HI>The&s;e be they who &s;eparate them&s;elves, &s;en&s;ual, having not the Spirit.</HI> 'Tis not the Spirit of God that hath moved &s;ome to &s;eparate them&s;elves from our publick A&s;&s;emblies.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><NOTE PLACE="marg">Vid. Came|ron. de Ec|cle&s;. tract. de Schi&s;m.</NOTE>They having no good cau&s;e for it, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>There being many bad effects upon it.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>No cau&s;e good.] If we in our a&s;&s;em|blies, are not &s;eparated from God, they have no cau&s;e to &s;eparate from us. Are
<PB N="337" REF="189"> we &s;eparate from God? Is not the drift of our daily endeavours to draw men to God? Is not this the bent of our bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, to bring men into obe|dience to God? communions with God? to &s;et up God in hearts, and hou&s;es? Is it not the enjoyments of God after which we &s;eek? Is it not wor&s;hippings of God in Spirit &amp; truth after which we pre&s;&s;e? that people mu&s;t not be content, except in Ordi|nances they come up to God? And can|not the experience of many Chri&s;tians &s;peak, that among us through mercy they meet with much of God? And are we &s;eparated from God? And what cau&s;e have they to &s;eparate from us? Yea, if with us there be &s;ufficient means for &s;alvation, then they have no &s;uffici|ent cau&s;e for their &s;eparation. For &s;alvation have not we with us meanes &s;ufficient? Meanes apt, and able to bring home, and build up, proper and preva|lent through God for converting of &s;in|ners, and confirming of Saints? If any &s;hall &s;eek a proof of Chri&s;t &s;peaking in us, the Apo&s;tles an&s;wer is proper, <HI>Prove your own &s;elves, examine your &s;elves whether you be in the faith. Know ye not
<PB N="338" REF="190"> your own &s;elves?</HI> &amp;c. 2. <HI>Cor.</HI> 13.4, 5. If their &s;oules were ever &s;en&s;ible of any &s;aving good, let them con&s;ider our A&s;|&s;emblies. Through our way of wor|&s;hipping God lies there no path to life everla&s;ting? What will they &s;ay to tho&s;e Martyrs and precious men that are dead and gone? And what will they &s;ay to tho&s;e thou&s;ands of Gods dear Saints that yet live, and with us wor&s;hip God with love and delight? Mu&s;t they be all &s;hut out of heaven?</P>
<P>If not, why do the&s;e then &s;eparate them&s;elves on earth? Many effects bad] both to them&s;elvet and o|thers.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Some we feel, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>More we fear.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Hence are our de&s;ired unions broke, and hoped reformations &s;topped, and mon&s;trous deformations and divi&s;ions come in&s;tead. <HI>Pharez</HI> is born when we looked for <HI>Zarah,</HI> Gene&s;. 38.27, &amp;c. <HI>Tamar</HI> being in the time of her <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t raval, behold, twins were in her womb; And it came to pa&s;&s;e when &s;he travelled, then one put out his hand, and the Mid-wife bound thereon a &s;carlet thred, &s;ay|ing, This came out fir&s;t. And it came
<PB N="339" REF="190"> to pa&s;&s;e as he drew back his hand, be|hold, his brother came out, and &s;he &s;aid. How ha&s;t thou broken forth? This breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called <HI>Pharez.</HI> And after his bro|ther came out that had the &s;carlet thred on his hand, and his name was called <HI>Zarah.</HI> Have not we in this Land had our time of travell; and hath not a &s;weet &s;ettlement, and good government &s;ometimes been brought &s;o neer the birth, that we have &s;aid, This will come out fir&s;t: But how hath it been drawn back, and &s;uch a Mon&s;ter born, of which we may &s;ay, How ha&s;t thou broken forth? This and that breach be upon thee. Breaches at home, breaches abroad, wars continued, &s;trifes encrea&s;|ed, civill States di&s;turbed, Prote&s;tant Nations perplexed, brotherly Leagues and Covenants laid violate, contrary to all civill, &s;acred, and religious bonds. What bloody breaches have been made? but above all &s;ad and bad is our breach with God.</P>
<P>This breach be upon thee. <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Since &s;ome have for&s;aken our a&s;&s;em|blies, O what abundance of others are broken off from all the Ordinan|ces,
<PB N="340" REF="191"> and holy wor&s;hip of God, from the Sabbath and &s;ervice of God! O what a Spirit of Athei&s;me fills mens heads, hearts, and hou&s;es! How are the ex|erci&s;es of religion laid by, yea, left off both in publike and private! Yea, how do men break out in waies of profane|ne&s;&s;e, to the &s;hame not onely of their per&s;ons, but of our religion and Nati|on!</P>
<P>This Breach be upon thee.</P>
<P>Men cea&s;ing that which is good, &s;oon pur&s;ue that which is evil.</P>
<P>Men who ca&s;t off the wor&s;hip of God, will ea&s;ily follow the works of the Di|vell. This dividing and rending &s;pirit, that moves men to make &s;uch &s;eparati|ons and &s;chi&s;ms, of which there are &s;e|quells &s;o &s;ad, &s;ure is not the Sprit of God.</P>
<P N="2">2. A ranting &s;pirit that &s;ets men upon &s;en&s;uall practices and plea&s;ures, is not the Spirit of God:</P>
<P><HI>Jude.</HI> 19. Sen&s;uall, having not the Spirit. The Spirit of God and the &s;en&s;uall delights of the fle&s;h are utterly oppo&s;ite, though the lu&s;ts of the fle&s;h, and &s;pirit of the Devil do ea&s;ily accord. A man led by a loo&s;e &s;pirit loves that
<PB N="341" REF="191"> which &s;uits his &s;infull lu&s;ts, and carnall contents, <HI>Micah.</HI> 2.11. <HI>If a man walk|ing in the &s;pirit and fal&s;hood do lie, &s;aying, I will prophe&s;ie unto thee of wine and &s;trong drink: he &s;hall even be the Prophet of this people.</HI> Not any will &s;o forwardly &amp; for|cibly prophe&s;y of wine &amp; &s;trong drink, as the man who walks in a &s;pirit of fal&s;hood. With the&s;e things he thinks to content others, they being the things wherewith him&s;elf is mo&s;t plea&s;ed. As <HI>Saul</HI> po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with an evill &s;pirit, no|thing could quiet him, but in&s;truments of mu&s;ick; while one was by him curi|ou&s;ly playing upon the Harpe, his heart was refre&s;hed, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 16.23. Thus &s;ome, their &s;weete&s;t refre&s;hment and greate&s;t contentments are in the merriments of the world, in revelling and rioting, luxury and &s;en&s;ual delicacies, indul|ging the delights of the fle&s;h, &s;uch as &s;tretch out their wits for to rear up their lu&s;ts, &s;etting off their abominable vices with plau&s;ible pretences, to cover their carnall nature; they run over Scripture, and &s;peake much of the Spirit, they may live the more in the fle&s;h. As <HI>Rachel</HI> that &s;its over her fathers Idols, and &s;ayes, It is with her after
<PB N="342" REF="192"> the manner of women. Thus they brood and hide their filthy de&s;ignes, and &s;ay, it is with them after the man|ner of men moved by the Spirit. But 'tis not the Spirit of God that moves in the&s;e men. Men may be &s;trangely acted onely by a Spirit of error.</P>
<P>And as at other times, &s;o al&s;o upon the Lords day, lift up by a &s;pirit of de|lu&s;ion.</P>
<P>This lying and deluding &s;pirit,
<Q><L>As in &s;ome things he may &s;eemingly take the way,</L>
<L>So he may at &s;ometimes &s;ubtilly take the day, <HI>viz.</HI></L></Q></P>
<P>Of the u&s;ual workings of Gods holy Spirit, that he may the more undi&s;cern|ably deceive the &s;ouls of &s;inful men and women. As Satan crept into Paradi&s;e, and in that place beguiled our fir&s;t Pa|rents: So he gets into the Sahbath, and upon this day &s;educes divers per&s;ons, <HI>J b</HI> 1.6. <HI>Now there was a day when the &s;ons of God came to pre&s;ent them&s;elves be|fore the Lord, add Satan came al&s;o among them.</HI> He &s;eemed as if on that day he had &s;omething to do as well as they. Though undoubtedly whatever this evil &s;pirit does, is not to bring men to
<PB N="343" REF="192"> a care of, and love to the Sabbath as it is the Lords holy day: But his drift in|deed is to draw men to an idle neglect, and a low e&s;teem of this day of the Sabbath.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="section">
<P N="2">2. Upon the Sabbath men may have many Spititual motions from the good Spirit of God:
<LIST>
<ITEM>Movings of the Spirit in them, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Yet they no movings in the Spirit.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>As the Spirit of God upon the Sab|bath moves in &s;anctified &s;ouls: So like|wi&s;e may he then move in &s;inful and un&s;anctified hearts. Here ob&s;erve,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Wherein it may be evidenced, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Whereby it may be differenced.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Good evidence may be given that Gods Spirit may move in &s;inful men upon the Sabbath-day, &s;o as that in re|&s;pect of &s;piritual good things they may be brought
<LIST>
<ITEM>To
<LIST>
<ITEM>Ob&s;erve,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Di&s;cern, &amp;</ITEM>
<ITEM>A&s;&s;ent.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>To
<LIST>
<ITEM>Admire,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Affect, &amp;</ITEM>
<ITEM>Re&s;olve.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. The Spirit may &s;o move as that men may much ob&s;erve what is &s;aid up|on the Sabbath concerning things Spi|ritual and Eternal, not barely to hear, but to hearken; not onely to imploy the
<PB N="344" REF="193"> ear, but to apply the mind, to mark things mentioned, to con&s;ider and pon|der what is preached and pre&s;&s;ed. When our Saviour upon the Sabbath preached the Go&s;pel in the Synagogue of <HI>Galilee,</HI> the people were &s;o moved, that they pre&s;&s;ed with eagerne&s;&s;e to le&s;&s;on and learn what he delivered, <HI>Luk.</HI> 5.1. Thus people may po&s;&s;ibly under the preaching or the Go&s;pel, have their thoughts &s;o helped, and their hearts &s;o held, as to heed what they hear.</P>
<P N="2">2. Gods Spirit may upon the Sabbath &s;o move, as that men may di&s;cern and &s;ee much into the matters of God, and according to the Word of God become very knowing. Divine things may not onely be opened to their under&s;tanding, but their under&s;tandings open to things Divine, <HI>Numb.</HI> 24.4. <HI>Heb.</HI> 6.4 Through the Spirit their minds may &s;o be en|lightened, and their eyes &s;o opened, that into the good things of the Go&s;pel they may have a great in&s;ight. Their heads may be gold, though their feet be clay. Their under&s;tandings may have light, though their affections no heat. Though the tree of life be not yet planted that may bring forth fruit unto God, yet
<PB N="345" REF="193"> they may have a tree of knowledge &s;o full of leaves, that therewith they may flouri&s;h in the World.</P>
<P N="3">3. Gods Spirit may move upon the Sabbath &s;o as men may a&s;&s;ent to the truth of Gods revealed will, &s;o as to believe the reports God hath made in his Word to be all infallibly true. A man may be brought to yield &s;uch an allowance, and to give that credit to whatever God &s;peaks in Scripture, that his &s;oul may &s;ecretly &s;ay, Truth Lord. Though that which mo&s;t tran&s;cends rea&s;on, as the my&s;teries of the Go&s;pel, yet to each the &s;oul inwardly &s;ayes, Truth Lord. Though that which con|demns his own cour&s;e, and di&s;covers his own ca&s;e to be naught, yet con&s;ci|ence concludes, Truth Lord. That &s;e|cret way is &s;inful, &s;ayes God, and mu&s;t be broken from. Yea, &s;ayes the man, Lord I believe it. That way is holy, ju&s;t, and good, and mu&s;t be walked in. Lord, I believe it. That is nece&s;&s;ary to be &s;ought, and that is worthy to be em|braced. Lord, I believe it, <HI>Luk.</HI> 8.13. <HI>Act.</HI> 8.13. All which is brought on by the ble&s;&s;ed Spirit of God.</P>
<P N="4">4. Gods Spirit may &s;o on the Sab|bath
<PB N="346" REF="194"> incite, as to &s;et men in admiring at the greatne&s;&s;e of Gods grace and mer|cy, wondring at Gods works and words, <HI>Luk.</HI> 4.14. <HI>Je&s;us returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and taught in their Synagogues on the Sabbath day; there they admired him, and he was glorified of them all,</HI> After he came to <HI>Nazareth,</HI> and went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath-day, where preaching upon &s;ome part of the Prophet <HI>E&s;ay,</HI> the peo|ple before him witne&s;&s;ed, and wondred at the gracious words that proceed|ed out at his mouth, <HI>Luk.</HI> 4.17, 18, 22.</P>
<P N="5">5. Gods Spirit may be &s;o inciting upon the Sabbath-day, as that men may be much moved to affect the good things of God; hereby they may be brought
<LIST>
<ITEM>To de&s;ires of them, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>To delights in them.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Spiritual good things men may be de&s;irous of. When our Saviour in a Sermon, <HI>Joh.</HI> 6. preached about the Bread which comes down from heaven, and giveth life to the World; &s;ome of his hearers were &s;o &s;tirred, that they broke out &s;aying, <HI>Lord, ever give us this
<PB N="347" REF="194"> Bread.</HI> Thus when men hear of heaven|ly things, their hearts may &s;pring witn de&s;ires, and their &s;ouls &s;ecretly &s;ay, <HI>O Lord, ever give us this good.</HI> Yea, with joy may their hearts dance and leap, <HI>Luk.</HI> 8.13. Thus &s;ome rejoyced in the Mini&s;tery of <HI>John</HI> the <HI>Bapti&s;t, Joh.</HI> 5.35. With gladne&s;&s;e of heart did <HI>Herod</HI> hear him, <HI>Mark</HI> 6.20.</P>
<P N="6">6. Gods Spirit may on the Sabbath &s;o move, as that men may re&s;olve upon obedience to God and his holy Com|mands, <HI>Deut.</HI> 5.27. <HI>Go thou near</HI> (&s;ay the people to <HI>Mo&s;es) and hear all that the Lord our God &s;hall &s;ay, and &s;peak thou to us all that the Lord our God &s;hall &s;peak unto thee, and we will hear it, and do it.</HI> Jer. 42.4, 5, 6. <HI>I will pray</HI> (&s;ayes the Prophet to the people) <HI>unto the Lord your God, and whatever the Lord &s;hall an|&s;wer, I will declaer to you, and keep no|thing back. Then they &s;aid to</HI> Jeremiah, <HI>The Lord be a true and faithfull witne&s;&s;e between us, if we do not according to all things for which the Lord thy God &s;hall &s;end thee to us. Whether it be good or evil, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God.</HI> Thus people under the Go&s;pel, their
<PB N="348" REF="195"> hearts may be wrought to a real re&s;ol|ving upon the right way, not onely &s;omething per&s;waded, but their pre&s;ent purpo&s;es pitched to practi&s;e and pro&s;e|cute that which is good. The&s;e and &s;uch like good movings may the Spirit of Grace have upon the hearts of &s;inful men upon the day of the Sabbath, and yet are far from being like Gods Saints in the Spirit upon the Lords day.</P>
<P>Now between the&s;e there is a di&s;cern|able difference; Gods Saints upon the Sabbath are &s;o in the Spirit, as no other ever are. Tho&s;e Spiritual motions that are in other hearts, may be found de|fective in a four fold re&s;pect, <HI>Viz.</HI> of
<LIST>
<ITEM>Depth,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Breadth,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Heigth, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Length.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>For depth,] Tho&s;e Spiritual mo|vings that are in carnal hearts, are but &s;uperficial and &s;hallow, they do not reach down into the inmo&s;t parts of the heart, in deep humblings, and &s;oul-afflictings, &s;o as at fir&s;t to lay the foun|dation deep. A man admires the mer|cy of God in Chri&s;t: but does not ab|hor
<PB N="349" REF="195"> him&s;elf for &s;in in the du&s;t, as that dear Saint of God, who when he was affected and wondred at the glory of God he &s;aw, he al&s;o (reflecting upon his own infirmities) <HI>abhorred him&s;elf in du&s;t and a&s;hes,</HI> Job 42.2. Gods Saints are fir&s;t moved to deep and bitter &s;elf-bemoaning &s;orrowes, <HI>Jer.</HI> 31.18. and after comes in &s;weet &s;oul-quickning comforts, <HI>Matth.</HI> 5.4. <HI>Others are like that &s;tony ground,</HI> Matth. 13.20. <HI>who when they heard the Word, immediately they received it with much joy, the &s;eed &s;prung upward, but downward took no deep rooting, as in the good ground,</HI> Luk. 8.13, 14, 15. When the Spirit moves upon true believers, it makes them to bottom well, to dig deep, and lay the founda|tion on a rock, and then rai&s;e their building in holy re&s;olutions, and &s;weet affections, with &s;uitable performances; but others, all the motions they feel, puts them upon &s;ome fair buildings, without any deep bottomings, <HI>Matth.</HI> 7. <HI>Luk.</HI> 6.</P>
<P>For breadth,] Tho&s;e Spiritual mo|vings that are in carnal hearts, are but &s;traitened and narrow; they do not &s;pread out, either in re&s;pect
<LIST>
<PB N="350" REF="196">
<ITEM>Of &s;ubject,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or object.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>They do not reach out into all the powers of the &s;oul, &s;o as to take up the whole &s;oul for God. Thus does the Spirit move in the Saints of God, ha|ving a wonderful work in the whole &s;oul, &s;o as that they are &s;et about God and good with their whole heart, and whole de&s;ires, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 15.5. All their joyes and de&s;ires are in and after God. <HI>Whom have I in heaven but thee? and who on earth do I de&s;ire be&s;ides thee?</HI> P&s;al. 73.25. Others they de&s;ire God, but there is &s;omewhat be&s;ides their &s;oul is &s;et up|on. In their affections or re&s;olutions God he hath not the whole heart or whole &s;oul and &s;pirit. Neither do tho&s;e good motions they have, reach out to all the precious things of God. Something of God they would have, but not whole God. O how are they delighted to hear of the loving kind|ne&s;&s;e, patience, pity, mercy of God. But the omni&s;cience, omnipre&s;ence, pu|rity, holine&s;&s;e of God they are not &s;o taken with, or &s;tirred at, plea&s;ed with.</P>
<P>The Death of Chri&s;t for their &s;alva|tion,</P>
<PB N="351" REF="196">
<P>Not the life of Chri&s;t for their imi|tation.</P>
<P>Fain have that of Chri&s;t which ju&s;ti|fies:</P>
<P>But care not for that of Chri&s;t which &s;anctifies.</P>
<P>A Saint of God &s;piritually moved de&s;ires to know nothing but Chri&s;t and him crucified. And, God forbid (&s;ayes the Apo&s;tle) I &s;hould glory in any thing &s;ave in the Cro&s;&s;e of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t <HI>Gala.</HI> 5.14. Mo&s;es <HI>can prize the reproaches of Chri&s;t,</HI> Heb. 11.26. Others onely regard &s;omewhat of Chri&s;t, the honours of Chri&s;t, the happine&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t. the comforts of Chri&s;t: but to bear the Cro&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t, and to po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;e the Grace of Chri&s;t, and to &s;toop to the yoak of Chri&s;t, this is grie|vous.</P>
<P>For height] Tho&s;e &s;pirituall movings that are in carnal hearts, cau&s;e them Heaven-ward to make &s;ome a&s;&s;ayes: but up to heaven they do not in &s;oule a&s;cend, as Gods Saints who mount up, and have communion with Chri&s;t, 1 <HI>John</HI> 1.3. and have their conver&s;ation in heaven, <HI>Phil.</HI> 3.20. &s;itting down in heavenly places with Chri&s;t, <HI>Eph.</HI> 2.6. Upon &s;ome movings of the Spi|rit
<PB N="352" REF="197"> others hearts and minds like Gra&s;|hoppers leap up, but fly not far; Or as a vapour that a&s;cends out of the earth into the lower regions of the air, but never ri&s;es to get up into the highe&s;t region; but when the heat or force is a little over, as a heavy body, it falls back again, and that which was like to be fire, proves but water. When the minds of carnall men are mo&s;t mounted, and their hearts mo&s;t height|ened, yet they do not come to that pitch of pious affections, and po&s;itive re&s;olutions, as whereunto Gods people are rai&s;ed. They do not &s;o highly ad|mire, nor &s;o highly de&s;ire, nor &s;o high|ly e&s;teem the holy things of God, as do the dear Saints of God in their hea|venly conver&s;es with God, when God by his Spirit carries them as upon Ea|gles wings.</P>
<P>For length,] Tho&s;e Spiritual movings that are in carnal hearts, are for the mo&s;t part &s;udden and &s;hort; as &s;parks of fire that are &s;oon quench|ed out, <HI>E&s;ay</HI> 50.11. Or as morning dewes that are &s;oon dried up, <HI>Ho&s;e.</HI> 6.4. Through the workings of the holy Spirit, O in what a hopeful way for
<PB N="353" REF="197"> heaven are the hearts of men &s;ome|times &s;et, but things do not abyde, all being by and by beate down. This made <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tom</HI> ob&s;erve a &s;ad difference be|tween the work of the Mini&s;ter in his calling, and the work of other men in their earthly trades and ordinary im|ployments. Men commonly as they leave their work, &s;o they find it: But the Mini&s;ters work (who is a Co-worker with God for peoples &s;pirituall good) it is one day &s;et forward, and another backward. Upon &s;ome Sabbath O how mighty are men moved! how &s;weetly are their &s;oules di&s;po&s;ed, how are their affections fixed, and their re&s;olutions rai&s;ed, as if the new building would pa&s;s on apace! but by that time a Mini&s;ter comes again to his work all is da&s;hed down, &s;o broken, as not a &s;tone is left upon a &s;tone. The work is new to begin, yea, the ca&s;e perhaps wor&s;e then it was before. As water once warmed be|ing ward cold (&s;ome &s;ay) is afterward the more hardly heated. Tho&s;e holy heatings, warmings, workings, movings, meltings, mountings, and meetings of God which good men have through the help of Gods holy Spirit; are more re|maining,
<PB N="354" REF="198"> and better abyding; &s;uch good things are &s;tabli&s;hed and nouri&s;hed in them, that are vani&s;hing and peri&s;hing in others, <HI>Luk.</HI> 8.13. <HI>John</HI> 6.67, 60. <HI>Gala.</HI> 4.15, 16.</P>
<P>The Spirit does &s;o act and &s;tir in the hearts of holy men, and their &s;oules upon the Sabbath may &s;o act and &s;tir in the Spirit, as is not po&s;&s;ible for any other per&s;ons. The peculiar priviledge of pious men to be in the Spirit <HI>on the Lords Day.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. We yet grant there be &s;everall of Gods Saints, who though they po&s;&s;ibly may, yet upon the Lords day in the Spi|rit they actually are not. Becau&s;e
<LIST>
<ITEM>Either they go from Ordinances,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or they re&s;t in Ordinances.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Some upon the Sabbath for&s;ake Gods publike Ordinances, and for that cau&s;e they are not in the Spirit. The wi&s;e God will &s;o honour his own holy appoint|ments, that &s;uch as &s;infully de&s;ert them, &s;hall not comfortably po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e him: But they &s;hall comfortably enjoy him, who carefully attend them. O how much of Gods good Spirit have good men met, when they have been on the Sabbath a&s;&s;embled in the u&s;e of Ordinances!
<PB N="355" REF="198"> <HI>John.</HI> 20.19. upon the fir&s;t day in the week, when the Apo&s;tles were gathered together [The Greek word does &s;ig|nifie &s;uch a gathering as in Church-A&s;|&s;embly, it being a word of Eccle&s;ia&s;ti|call u&s;e, and &s;o applyed in &s;everall texts, <HI>Act.</HI> 4.31.11.26.13.44.14.27.20.8. 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 5.4. <HI>Then the Lord breathed on them, and they received the Holy Gho&s;t. When</HI> Peter <HI>was preaching the Go&s;pel, the holy Gho&s;t fell upon all them that heard the Word, Act.</HI> 10.44. It is in the u&s;e of Ordinances Chri&s;t hath promi&s;ed his Spirituall pre&s;ence, <HI>Matth.</HI> 28.19, 20. As the pre&s;ence of Chri&s;t in body is not enjoyed but in the heavenly <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Grego.</HI> Moral. lib. <HI>18.</HI> et cap. <HI>15.</HI></NOTE> the generall A&s;&s;embly, the Church of the fir&s;t-born, where are gathered an in|numerable company of Angells, and the &s;pirits of ju&s;t men made perfect, <HI>Hebr.</HI> 11.22, 23, 24. So the pre&s;ence of Chri&s;t in Spirit is not to be expected, but in the holy A&s;&s;emblies of Gods Mi|litant Saints, met to honour God, ga|thered to glorifie God in the way of his Ordinances, Word and Sacraments, &amp;c.</P>
<P>It is true, divers of Gods dear Saints can by experience &s;peak that they have
<PB N="356" REF="199"> met with much of Chri&s;t in Spirit, and much of the Spirit of Chri&s;t in private duties, as Meditation, and Prayer, &amp;c. But then this comfortable experience hath been to Chri&s;tians,
<Q><L>Either while publick Ordinances al&s;o were attended,</L>
<L>Or when Ordinances in publick could not be enjoyed.</L></Q></P>
<P N="1">1. Chri&s;tians while they remain upon the Lords day diligent in publick duties, may in duties private meet with much of Gods Spirit. Chri&s;tians may even in the week-time, have &s;weet incomes of Spirit in their private Clo&s;ets, the better to prepare them for, encourage them to, and carry them through the publick &s;ervice of the Sabbath, when the Lord with enlarged mea&s;ures of re|fre&s;hing mercies may more fully flow in upon them.</P>
<P N="2">2. The &s;ouls of &s;incere Chri&s;tians may have in the private exerci&s;es of re|ligion, large enjoyments of God through the Spirit, being deprived of publick Ordinances, and debarred from the open liberties of the Lords day. Yea, when they are held and hindred from ordinary works of Gods wor|&s;hip,
<PB N="357" REF="199"> God may more immediately and abundantly in the be&s;t comforts break in upon them. As the <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> when they were in the wilderne&s;&s;e, and could not have comfortable crops from the earth, God gave them Manna imme|diate from heaven; but when they were come into <HI>Canaan,</HI> if they would have a harve&s;t, they mu&s;t mind their &s;eed-time, and plow and &s;owe in the &s;ea|&s;on. When Gods &s;ervants are &s;ettled where the means of Grace may be had, and the work of Gods wor&s;hip may be performed, they mu&s;t not think to have Spiritual comforts, as Manna im|mediate from heaven. Some upon the Sabbath they for&s;ake the &s;olemn wor|&s;hip of God, and depart from the pub|lick Ordinances of God, and &s;o are not in the Spirit on the Lords day.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="section">
<P><HI>Object.</HI> In Spirit God him&s;elf is de|parted from the publick A&s;&s;emblies, and therefore mens for&s;aking of them hin|ders not from rheir being on the Lords day in the Spirit. What prejudice can it be to for&s;ake God-for&s;aken Ordinan|ces, wayes, and means, wherein God is not now to be found?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Thus &s;ome have &s;ugge&s;ted to
<PB N="358" REF="200"> ju&s;tifie their &s;inful &s;eparation; for how can they make good their going from us, if they grant that God is with us? With what face can they for&s;ake tho&s;e Ordinances with which God him|&s;elf is pre&s;ent? Pre&s;ent is God in Spirit with publick Ordinances, though
<LIST>
<ITEM>Not &s;en&s;ibly at all &s;ea&s;ons,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Nor &s;avingly to all per&s;ons,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Nor effectually for all purpo&s;es.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. God in Spirit and the Spirit of God is in Ordinances pre&s;ent, when not apparant. He hath &s;ecret and un|di&s;cerned wayes of working. This holy Spirit hath his hidden acce&s;&s;es unto the &s;ouls of men. The dewes of divine grace they fall in &s;mall and in&s;en&s;ible drops. The &s;eed of &s;anctifying grace is &s;owen by an invi&s;ible hand. Great works are done by a deep and inti|mate energie of the Spirit of grace, whereof no pre&s;ent notice is taken. As <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> by his &s;ervant put his &s;ilver cup into <HI>Benjamins</HI> &s;ack, when neither he nor any of his Brethren knew it. Thus God by his Spirit puts &s;anctifying grace into the &s;ouls of men, when not them&s;elves, much le&s;&s;e others are able to perceive the &s;ame. In the conver&s;ion of Saint
<PB N="359" REF="200"> <HI>Paul</HI> 'tis &s;aid, <HI>Act.</HI> 97. that they who were with him in his journey, <HI>they heard a voyce, but &s;aw no man:</HI> In the pub|lick preaching of the Go&s;pel the whole Congregation hear a voyce, but do not &s;ee what &s;ecret works the Spirit of God hath in the hearts of men to pro|mote their good. And though the Lord is not ever appearingly pre&s;ent with publick Ordinances, yet he hath not for&s;aken them. God does never for&s;ake his precious &s;ervants, yet he is not alwayes with them &s;en&s;ibly pre&s;ent. As at the pool of <HI>Bethe&s;da,</HI> people who de&s;ired a cure, they waited for the moving of the water, there being cer|tain &s;ea&s;ons when the Angel of God &s;tirred in the &s;ame: So there be &s;ome &s;pecial &s;ea&s;ons when the Spirit of God &s;tirs in Ordinances, and therefore thereon people mu&s;t wait, that would have a cure.</P>
<P N="2">2. Gods Spiritual pre&s;ence it is with publick Ordinances, though upon &s;e|veral they have no &s;aving work. Though divers under Go&s;pel-di&s;pen|&s;ations be blinded, hardened, ruined, <HI>Act.</HI> 19.8, 9. <HI>Exod.</HI> 14. We find a cloud that ca&s;t darkne&s;&s;e upon the <HI>Egyptians,</HI>
<PB N="360" REF="201"> &s;o that it blinded them, and brought them to run upon their own ruine; yet with that very cloud God was pre&s;ent, thereby giving light to the <HI>I&s;raelites,</HI> and leading them in the way to <HI>Canaan, Nehem</HI> 9.12. 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 4. The <HI>Phili&s;tines</HI> having in a &s;et battel wor&s;ted the Army of <HI>I&s;ra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l, the Elders of</HI> I&s;rael <HI>cry<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d out, Let us fetch the Ark of the co|venant i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">to the field, it may &s;ave us from the hands of our enemies. And accor|dingly they cau&s;ed the Ark of the covenant to be brought into the Camp. But the</HI> Phi|li&s;tines <HI>fight, and</HI> I&s;rael <HI>was &s;mitten with a very great &s;laughter, and the Ark it &s;elf was taken, yet the Ark 'twas Gods ordi|nance, and wi h it was Gods immovable pre|&s;ence, as may appear by the plagues God in|flicted upon the</HI> Phili&s;tines <HI>who carried the Ark captive.</HI> It was a cur&s;e to them, yet Gods own ble&s;&s;ed appointment for his peoples profit. The preaching of the Go&s;pel, it is to &s;everal a &s;avour of death, yet with the Go&s;pel preached God is graciou&s;ly pre&s;ent, for the &s;a|ving good of the &s;ouls of &s;ome, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 2.16. <HI>Heb</HI> 4.12. <HI>The word of God it is a two edged &s;word,</HI> it hath a killing edge, and wounds &s;ome to death; yet through
<PB N="361" REF="201"> God it hath a curing edge, &s;ome being &s;aved by the very Word which wounds them. Chri&s;t him&s;elf who is a Corner|&s;tone, upon whom many a ble&s;&s;ed build|ing is rai&s;ed: yet he is a Rock of of|fence, and a &s;tone at which &s;ome &s;tum|ble, and fall, and ri&s;e no more, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2.7, 8. Notwith&s;tanding God is never &s;e|parated from his Son, but abides with him for ever, <HI>Joh.</HI> 16.32.</P>
<P N="3">3. In publick Ordinances God by his holy Spirit is pre&s;ent, even unto all per|&s;ons, for &s;ome or other good purpo&s;e. For the be&s;t &amp; highe&s;t purpo&s;e is God Spiritually pre&s;ent to &s;ome per&s;ons in the u&s;e of his Ordinances, &s;o that they are effectually wrought upon, and brought in to grace and glory. And &s;urely where ever the net is ca&s;t out, there are &s;ome fi&s;h to be caught; and where the candle is lighted up, there are &s;ome lo&s;t groats to be found, though but few. And as for other per&s;ons, for other good purpo&s;es, though of low|er concernment, is God in Spirit pre|&s;ent: &s;o that though they are not by grace renewed, yet they are through grace re&s;trained. Hence as Saint <HI>Paul</HI> complaines that he could not do the
<PB N="362" REF="202"> good he would: So &s;inners they cannot do the evill they would. Might good men have their minds, they would be much better: And might wicked men have their wills, they would be far wor&s;e. Hence men are not onely brought to forbear many things evill, but drawn to do divers good things. Thus <HI>Herod</HI> heard <HI>John</HI> Bapti&s;t gladly, reformed much that was evill,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jo&s;ephus <HI>lib.</HI> 15. <HI>cap.</HI> 8. <HI>et</HI> 12 <HI>&amp;c.</HI></NOTE> and performed many things good, <HI>Mark.</HI> 6.20. <HI>Jo&s;e|phus</HI> reports of this <HI>Herod</HI> many excel|lent things he did, <HI>as acts of Ju&s;tice, acts of Fortitude, acts of Liberality:</HI> In the time of a famine how he cau&s;ed all his ve&s;|&s;els of Gold and Silver to be melted, and therewith corn to be bought for the relief of the poore. People under the preaching of the Go&s;pell that are not effectually converted, yet are ordi|narily convinced, have &s;ome Illuminati|ons, Inclinations, Qualifications, Com|mi&s;erations, Operations, whereby o|thers may have profit, though them|&s;elves peri&s;h. All which are the actings of Gods good Spirit, and the eviden|ces of Gods &s;ure pre&s;ence in the u&s;e of his Ordinance. Let not any then &s;ay that God hath for&s;aken any of his ad|mini&s;trations, but let men rather reflect
<PB N="363" REF="202"> and fear le&s;t them&s;elves &s;hould be for|&s;aken of God. This was commendable in King <HI>Saul,</HI> 1. <HI>Sam.</HI> 28.15. O, &s;ayes he, <HI>The Phili&s;tines make war again&s;t me, and God is departed from me, and an&s;wer|eth m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> no more, neither by Prophets, nor by dreames,</HI> &amp;c. He does not &s;ay, God is departed from his Prophets, God is departed from his ordinary waies of an&s;wer; but, God is departed from me, &amp;c. Per&s;ons that do not find pro|fit by the Word, &s;hould mi&s;doubt their own conditions, for Gods Word does good to them that walk uprightly, <HI>Mi|cah</HI> 2.7. Such as &s;ay, God is gone from publike ordinances, it argues their hearts are gone if their bodies be with us, &amp; they do but learn the Language of &s;uch as are gone from us both in body and Heart. But God is with us.</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> None have &s;uch comfortable di&s;coveries of God by the the Spirit, as &s;ome that are departed from publick A&s;&s;emblies.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Some that have been damn|able &s;educers have given out, that they through the Spirit have had glorious di&s;coveries of God. The Spirit of God de&s;cending upon our Saviour like a
<PB N="364" REF="203"> Dove, when he had heaven opened, and God &s;peaking, <HI>This is my beloved Son,</HI> Matth. 3.16, 17. in allu&s;ion thereto, and imitation thereof, a grand Impo&s;tor having taught a white Pigeon to take pea&s;e out of his ear, reported to the people that it was the holy Gho&s;t, im|parting the mind of God to him in mo&s;t comfortable My&s;teries, for the which he was much admired of many. And our Saviour having promi&s;ed the &s;ending of the Spirit, the Comforter, that &s;hould make known all things from the Father,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Al&s;ted. <HI>Chronolo. Haere&s;ium</HI> 38. pag. 382.</NOTE> <HI>Joh.</HI> 14. One impu|dently affirmed, not onely that he had extraordinary Spiritual comforts from God: but that he was the very Spirit of God, the Comforter; and that God had &s;ent him to make known mo&s;t com|fortable me&s;&s;ages to the Churches of Chri&s;t; whereupon he had many fa|vourers and followers. <HI>Luther cites &s;everal &s;ects in his time, who though they fled from the Word, as Owles from the light, yet they pretended to high rap|tures and ravi&s;hments through the Spirit, and t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">us e&s;pecially the prime leaders with lyes as load&s;tones drew parties after them, &amp;c.</HI> And there are in our dayes divers
<PB N="365" REF="203"> who&s;e language it loud of large di&s;|coveries they have from, and comforts they have in God through the Spirit, never &s;o as &s;ince they &s;eparated from our publick A&s;&s;emblies: before they were full of fears and doubts, but now they are in the firme&s;t &s;ettlements and fulle&s;t a&s;&s;urance, free from all &s;ad thoughts, filled with the joyes and comforts of the holy Gho&s;t, having in|timate acquaintance with the mind of God, and under&s;tanding in the deep My&s;teries of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>This I &s;hall onely &s;ay, that if it be really &s;o, let us &s;ee more of it,</P>
<P>Both in their lives and actions,</P>
<P>And in their deaths and afflictions.</P>
<P>In the actings of their lives how little of the power of this appears,</P>
<P>Either towards God above them,</P>
<P>Or towards men about them?</P>
<P>If they &s;ay, they now &s;ee and know &s;o m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">h, ta&s;te and partake &s;o much, tru&s;t and confide &s;o much in God; let them evidence it by their exact actings, and &s;trict livings, &s;o as to out &s;trip others in all goodne&s;&s;e, kindne&s;&s;e, meekne&s;&s;e, mercifulne&s;&s;e, &amp;c. As the Apo&s;tle &s;peaks to the man who boa&s;ts of his
<PB N="366" REF="204"> belief, <HI>Shew me thy faith by thy works,</HI> Jam. 2. So may we &s;ay to &s;uch, Let them &s;hew their comforts and confidence in God by their holy working, humble walking, &s;in-&s;ubduing, &s;elf-denying, lo|ving tho&s;e that they count their ene|mies, and praying for tho&s;e they call their per&s;ecutors, <HI>Math.</HI> 5.46, 47. That &s;aying of our Saviour to the <HI>Phari&s;ees,</HI> may fitly be applyed; <HI>If ye love them which love you, what reward have you? Do not even the Publicans the &s;ame? And if ye &s;alute your brethren onely, what do you more then others? Do not even Pub|licans &s;o, &amp;c?</HI> Nay, in&s;tead of doing more then others] in their conver&s;a|tions and actions they expre&s;&s;e le&s;&s;e of the power of godline&s;&s;e, and practice of holine&s;&s;e, keep le&s;&s;e to the rules of righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and in the paths of peaceablene&s;&s;e, then other Chri&s;tians do, and yet they &s;peak of higher rap|tures, greater di&s;coveries, &s;weeter com|forts, &s;tronger confidence then other Chri&s;tians have. I que&s;tion whether the&s;e be any more then &s;elf-deceiving conceits, ari&s;ing from Satans-&s;ubtil de|&s;igns.</P>
<P N="2">2. In their deaths and daies of deep
<PB N="367" REF="204"> di&s;tre&s;&s;e, how little likewi&s;e do they lay forth of that firm confidence and tho&s;e full comforts they &s;peak of in God? It were ea&s;y to in&s;tance from among the Anabapti&s;ts and &s;uch other Sects, how e&s;pecially the prime leaders who have &s;poken of raptures and ravi&s;hing reve|lations by the Spirit, yet &s;ome of them have died ragingly and in a frenzie, others &s;tupidly, their heart &s;inking within them like a &s;tone. And have not &s;ome been &s;een who have carried it boldly out, while the Sun hath been warm under which they have &s;et, and while the Sea hath been calme over which they have &s;ailed; but when the winds have been rough, and their hopes as &s;hips have been wrackt, their va|pourings have vani&s;hed? Hi&s;tory re|ports of a river that at every Mid-Sum|mer &s;welleth and runneth over the bancks, but in Mid-Winter is cleane dried up; Thus &s;ome while they have had pro&s;perous &s;ucce&s;&s;e, their confi|dence and comforts have ri&s;en high; but when they have been down in the depths of their di&s;tre&s;&s;e, all have been damped and da&s;hed to the du&s;t. As <HI>Pharaohs</HI> Chariots that carried him fa&s;t,
<PB N="368" REF="205"> and ran &s;wift upon the Land: but when they were in the Sea, then they went heavy, and their wheeles fell off.</P>
<P>The Jewes &s;aid of our Saviour, Let us &s;ee him come down from the Cro&s;&s;e, &amp; we will believe in him: But of &s;uch we may &s;ay, Let us &s;ee them go up to the Cro&s;s, let us &s;ee how they can look death, de|vill, &amp; God in the face, keeping up the heights of their comforts &amp; confidence, and then we may the better believe them. In the mean while, let not Chri&s;tians believe they may have high comforts &amp; heavenly raptures through the Spirit; yet neglect holy Ordinan|ces, Chri&s;tian A&s;&s;emblies, the Lords Day, and the duties thereof. Though &s;ome men be in Sabbath-day-duies that are out of the Spirit, yet let none think to be in the Spirit, that lie out of du|ties upon the day of the Sabbath. As whoever would &s;ail over Sea to a friend in another Land, mu&s;t have both a &s;hip and a wind; &s;o whoever would in &s;oul a&s;cend from earth unto God in heaven, mu&s;t have the help
<Q><L>Both of Gods holy Ordinances,</L>
<L>And of Gods holy Spirit.</L>
<PB N="369" REF="205">
<L>The Ordinance as the Ship, and</L>
<L>The Spirit as the wind.</L></Q></P>
<P>As the Ship of an Ordinance cannot move without the wind of the Spirit: &s;o the wind of the Spirit will not blow without the Ship of an Ordinance. And therefore as a man mu&s;t de&s;ire the wind: So he mu&s;t take care that he be in the Ship, el&s;e if he goes to Sea, his &s;oul will &s;ink, and not a&s;cend. Some neglect the Ordinances of God, and the duties of the Sabbath, and therefore are not <HI>in the Spirit upon the Lords Day.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Some others they &s;o re&s;t in Or|dinances, that therefore they are not upon the Lords Day in the Spirit. This may be con&s;idered,
<Q><L>Both in re&s;pect of the Ordinances they u&s;e,</L>
<L>And in re&s;pect of their u&s;e of Ordi|nances.</L></Q></P>
<P N="1">1. The Ordinances that &s;ome up|on the Sabbath u&s;e, are of a lower rank, <HI>viz.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Reading of Scriptures,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hearing of Sermons, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Prayer to God.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>In the&s;e they re&s;t, and do not ri&s;e to
<PB N="370" REF="206"> duties of a higher &s;ort, <HI>viz.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Seque&s;tred Meditation,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sacramental participation, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Solemn congratulation.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The&s;e three duties are as <HI>Davids</HI> 3. Worthies, that outwent all their fel|lowes, 2. <HI>Sam.</HI> 23.23. In reading and hearing Gods Word, truths are more tran&s;ient, but in meditation they are more &s;tayed and e&s;tabli&s;hed.</P>
<P>In the Word are rare things uttered and opened; But in the Sacrament they are al&s;o &s;ealed and &s;ettled. In pray|er to God we &s;eek the &s;upplying our wants and &s;erving our pre&s;ent nece&s;&s;i|ties, &amp;c.</P>
<P>But in pray&s;es of God, we &s;et up Gods worth, exalting his Bounty and Beau|ty.</P>
<P>In the Mini&s;tery of the Word God comes as it were down into the world to us: In meditation we go as it were out of the world up to God. Of <HI>I&s;aac</HI> 'tis &s;aid, he went into the field to me|ditate; but of a Chri&s;tian it may be &s;aid, he goes out of the field, viz. out of the world, to meditate, dilate, and delight his thoughts upon God. Of God he cannot take in &s;o much by
<PB N="371" REF="206"> the hearing of the ear, as he doth by the thoughts of his heart. In the Word we hear di&s;covered the Love of God by his voice: In the Sacrament we &s;ee uncovered the Love of Chri&s;t in his Cro&s;&s;e: herein the &s;oul by a working faith walks into the wounds of Chri&s;t, banquets upon his brui&s;ed body, and bathes it &s;elf in his ble&s;&s;ed blood. By prayer we receive mercy from God: By Prai&s;es we give glory to God. Now 'tis more excellent to give then to re|ceive. Prayer is the &s;ole work of Saints militant on earth; prai&s;es is al&s;o the work of Saints triumphant in Heaven. As in an Orchard the ripe&s;t and &s;weete&s;t fruit, and that which is mo&s;t plea&s;ant to &s;ight and ta&s;te, is to be gathered from off the upper boughs of trees; So the &s;weete&s;t comforts of the Spirit, that mo&s;t refre&s;h the heart, and ravi&s;h the &s;oules of Saints, are to be found in the&s;e upper duties upon the Day of the Sab|bath. Now becau&s;e Chri&s;tians do not ri&s;e unto the&s;e higher performances, but re&s;t in tho&s;e lower &s;ervices, therefore they are not <HI>in the Spirit upon the Lords Day.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. The u&s;e that &s;ome upon the
<PB N="372" REF="207"> Sabbath have of &s;acred Ordinances, is onely in a lower way, viz. &s;o as that their hearts in holy duties
<Q><L>Are heavy and &s;ad,</L>
<L>Or lazie and dead,</L>
<L>And empty of God.</L></Q></P>
<P>Thus they re&s;t, and do not ri&s;e to that higher way of u&s;ing Gods holy Ordi|nances, viz. &s;o as in religious exer|ci&s;es to have their hearts,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Cheered,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fixed, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Filled with God</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Fir&s;t, they perform the Service of the Sabbath all with &s;added hearts in a lumpi&s;h way. Their &s;pirits bowed down with a burden of black apprehen&s;ions, &s;o as that all the Lords day long they have no li&s;t to lift up them&s;elves. Fi&s;h|ermen when upon the waters of the Sea they ca&s;t out their nets, they not onely hang on lead, but they put on cork that they may the better bear them up, and bring them out; whereas when Chri|&s;tians upon the duties of the Sabbath draw out their hearts, having no cork of encouraging hope, but all lead of de&s;ponding th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ughts, and di&s;tru&s;ting feares, they cannot bear up, their &s;ouls
<PB N="373" REF="207"> &s;ink in the &s;ervice of God, <HI>Matth.</HI> 28.8. it is &s;aid of &s;ome good women that they went from Chri&s;ts Sepulchre upon his Re&s;urrection-day with fear and great joy: but &s;ome Chri&s;tians they come and go from Gods Ordi|nances upon the Lords Day with great fear, but no joy: &s;o that when they &s;hould be in the triumphs of the Spirit, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">r &s;pirits are filled with troubles. T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> Sabbath it is the day whereon Chri&s;t came up from his Sepulchre, in which before he lay dead and buried: bu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Sabbath 'tis the day whereon &s;ome Chri&s;tians go down into the Se|pulchre of &s;orrowes, and bury their &s;oules under &s;ad doubts, in which graves of darkne&s;&s;e they re&s;t, when from them they ought to ri&s;e. Upon the day of the Sabbath the &s;oules of Gods Saints &s;hould &s;end out &s;weet comforts, as the conduits of a City that run with wine upon the day of &s;ome triumph. Upon this day the minds of all good men &s;hould mount up into heaven, and comfortably conver&s;e with God from morning to night, drinking deep of tho&s;e rivers of plea&s;ure that are in Gods pre&s;ence. Now this Chri|&s;tians
<PB N="374" REF="208"> do not, who&s;e hearts are upon this day down in deep fears and &s;or|rows.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="section">
<P N="2">2. Gods Saints may &s;ometimes tran&s;|act the duties of the Sabbath with dead|ne&s;&s;e of heart, in a livele&s;&s;e and luke|warm way. Dead Sacrifices, and Jew|i&s;h Sabbaths &s;uited: but dead &s;ervices, and Chri&s;tian Sabbaths do not accord. Go&s;pell-Sabbaths require living Sacri|fices, yea, a lively &s;oul in every &s;ervice. As the true mother in the Kings could not be content with a dead child in her bo&s;ome: no more &s;hould a true Chri&s;ti|an be &s;atisfied with a dead heart in holy duty, e&s;pecially upon the Lords Day: The day wherein deadne&s;&s;e &s;hould be turn'd into life, weakne&s;&s;e into &s;trength, and earthly coldne&s;&s;e into heavenly heatings. For want of this Sabbaths pa&s;&s;e with &s;mall profit. The day may be long, yet little work done. Souldi|ers, who meet and mu&s;ter upon a train|ing day, and di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">charge their Muskets with<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut bullet or &s;hot, they make a noi&s;e but no execution is done: Chri&s;tians meet and gather on the Sabbath day, di&s;charge their duties without fe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">vour and heat: &s;ome noi&s;e is made, but little
<PB N="375" REF="208"> work wrought: no ri&s;ing of heart, no a&s;cending of &s;oul&punc; no being in the Spi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">it <HI>on the Lords Day.</HI></P>
<P>As Chri&s;tians &s;hould not re&s;t in live|le&s;&s;e low or weak graces, but labour to enliven and &s;till more to &s;trengthen tho&s;e divine qualities: &s;o they &s;hould not re&s;t in livele&s;&s;e, low and flat per|formances, but endeavour to grow to greater life, warmth, and &s;trength in all holy duties. Not &s;loathful in bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, but fervent in Spirit, &s;erving the Lord, <HI>Rom.</HI> 12. For want of fervency of Spirit, there is &s;o much &s;loathfulne&s;&s;e in the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of Gods ble&s;&s;ed Day. Fer|vency or zeal is to duty as the &s;oul to the body, without which all is but a cold carca&s;e. Zeal is to the Soule as oyl to the wheele, whence it goes quick and is agil in all the waies of Gods wor&s;hip. This is that Pillar of fire, which as it mu&s;t go along with us in the night of our &s;uffering, &s;o in the day of our &s;ervice.</P>
<P>Service and &s;oul and all dies, as this decayes. As upon the wa&s;ting of radi|call heat the body growes into weak|ne&s;&s;e, &s;ickne&s;&s;e and death: &s;o in the &s;oul of man and Service of God all
<PB N="376" REF="209"> langui&s;hes and declines, as &s;piritual heat abates. It is &s;aid of <HI>John</HI> the Bapti&s;t, <HI>he was a burning and a &s;hining light.</HI> When Chri&s;tians are before men &s;hining in actions, but are not towards God burn|ing in affections, they keep dayes, and carry on duties in a &s;piritle&s;&s;e way; And for lack of &s;uch &s;parklings and &s;pringings of &s;oul, they are not in the Spirit on the Lords day.</P>
<P N="3">3. Pious men may po&s;&s;ibly pa&s;&s;e Sab|baths, re&s;ting in Gods Ordinance with|out enjoying Gods pre&s;ence. God ha|ving made tho&s;e heavenly creatures, Sun, Moon, and Stars, yet re&s;ted not till he had created man: &s;o man having u&s;ed holy duties, Word, Sacraments, and Prayer, yet therein &s;hould not re&s;t till he can attain God. When the Jewes were gone out of <HI>Egypt,</HI> and were in their way to <HI>Canaan,</HI> God told them, they &s;hould have his Angel to go be|fore them, but him&s;elf would not go with them: which when they heard, they all mourned, and none would put on his Ornaments, <HI>Exod.</HI> 33.2, 3.4. Gods &s;ervants in Sabbaths &s;hould not be &s;a+tisfied though they had the Mini&s;tery of Angels, except God him&s;elf be pre|&s;ent.
<PB N="377" REF="209"> When <HI>Rebecca</HI> was in her journey to <HI>Abrahams</HI> hou&s;e with his &s;ervants, &s;he rode on the Camel, but &s;he did not re&s;t on the Camel, when &s;he &s;aw <HI>I&s;aac</HI> who was to be her husband; &s;he lighted down and mode&s;tly met him, <HI>Gen.</HI> 24.63, 64. <HI>Jacob rejoyced to &s;ee the wagons his &s;on Jo&s;eph had &s;ent;</HI> yet was not the &s;eeing of them, nor being in them that &s;atisfied <HI>Jacob,</HI> but thereby to go into <HI>Egypt,</HI> and &s;ee and enjoy <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> him&s;elf. It be|comes Chri&s;tians to rejoyce when God gives them Ordinances to u&s;e, yet is not the highe&s;t Ordinances they can have upon this holy day, wherein they &s;hould re&s;t contented, except thereby they can come to &s;ome communion with God. It is reported of Ma&s;ter <HI>Bradford</HI> the Martyr, that he would never leave off in holy duties till he found therein &s;omewhat of God; as in prayer he would not give over till he had &s;ome intimation from God of his love; in meditation till he had &s;ome manife&s;ta|tion of Gods pre&s;ence, quickening and quieting his heart. Gods &s;ervants even upon Sabbath dayes, when duties are mo&s;t &s;olemn and &s;ettled, &s;hould not re&s;t &s;atisfied, except God &s;hewes upon them
<PB N="378" REF="210"> &s;ome token for good, and &s;eals upon their &s;ouls &s;ome impre&s;&s;ion of his pre|&s;ence, which they may carry with them all the week. The Church, <HI>Cant.</HI> 3. being at a lo&s;&s;e for her beloved, &s;he goes to the watchmen and enquires of them: <HI>And 'twas but a little</HI> (&s;aid &s;he) <HI>t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> at I pa&s;&s;ed from them; but I found him whom my &s;oul loveth.</HI> We are not &s;o far to pa&s;&s;e In&s;truments and Ordinances, as not to make u&s;e of them or attend in them: but we are to pa&s;&s;e them a little, in re|&s;pect of any relyance on them, or re&s;t|ing in them. As evil things unrepented of carry us from God: &s;o good things re&s;ted in keep us from God. It is for Phari&s;ees and Papi&s;ts to re&s;t in good works done, Chri&s;tians &s;hould ri&s;e high|er, and reach at a GOD in every good work, at Chri&s;t a Saviour in every &s;er|vice of the Sabbath. When <HI>Samuel</HI> was to anoint one of the family of <HI>Je&s;&s;e</HI> to be King over <HI>I&s;rael, Je&s;&s;e</HI> made &s;even of his &s;ons to pa&s;&s;e before the Prophet, and as they pa&s;&s;ed one after another, the Prophets word was, <HI>This is not he, Nei|ther this he,</HI> &amp;c. Then &s;ayes <HI>Samuel, Is there not yet another?</HI> And <HI>Je&s;&s;e</HI> &s;aid, <HI>There remains yet the younge&s;t, and behold,
<PB N="379" REF="210"> he keeps the &s;heep. And Samuel &s;aid, Send and fetch him, for we will not &s;it down till he come hither. And Je&s;&s;e &s;ent, and brought in David. Then &s;ayes the Prophet, This is he, and he anointed him,</HI> 1 Sam. 16.</P>
<P>Thus upon a Sabbath, when In&s;tru|ments, Ordinances, Mini&s;ters, Scrip|tures, Prayers, Sermons, Sacraments and all pa&s;&s;e one after another, the &s;ouls of Gods Saints &s;hould &s;ecretly &s;ay, Is there not yet another? <HI>The Lord our righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e:</HI> we cannot &s;it down till he comes hither. And when the Lord him&s;elf appears in an Ordinance, each &s;oul &s;hould &s;ay, This, this is he. Some, they &s;it down in Ordinances, though no Chri&s;t comes in, little or no|thing of the Lord him&s;elf is &s;een, and &s;o their hearts ri&s;e not. The Virgin <HI>Mary</HI> comming into the hou&s;e where <HI>Elizabeth</HI> was, <HI>&s;he being with child the babe leaped in her womb, and &s;he was filled with the holy Gho&s;t, and &s;aid with a loud voice, Whence is this that the mother of my Lord &s;hould come to me?</HI> Luk 1. Now it was not &s;o much the Mother of the Lord, as the Lord in his Mother that made the child in <HI>Elizabeth</HI> leap. 'Tis not the Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t, nor the Or|dinances
<PB N="380" REF="211"> of Chri&s;t, but Chri&s;t in his Mini&s;ters, and Chri&s;t in his Ordinances that makes the hearts of holy men to leap upon the Lords day. Thus they are filled with the holy Gho&s;t, and fixed with the Spirit of God. Now becau&s;e Chri&s;tians do not ri&s;e to a high minding the pre&s;ence of Chri&s;t, but re&s;t in a low u&s;ing the Ordinances of Chri&s;t, they are not in the Spirit on the Lords day.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="11" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>U&s;e: Exhortion.</HEAD>
<P>Let this incite all Gods Saints to &s;uch a &s;piritual &s;pending of the Go&s;|pel-Sabbath, that upon this day they may be in the Spirit.</P>
<P>Two things 'tis here meet to mark, <HI>Viz.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>The matter whereof this is compri&s;ed, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The motives whereby this is enfor|ced.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Spiritually to &s;pend the Lords day does compri&s;e principally the&s;e two things, <HI>viz.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>The influence of Gods Spirit with us, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The concurrence of our &s;pirits with God.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1"><PB N="381" REF="211">1. The inflowings of Gods Spirit, &s;o as to work in a double way, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Of Re&s;i&s;tance,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And A&s;&s;i&s;tance.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>There being mighty oppo&s;itions a|gain&s;t us, we need the Spirit of God for their re&s;i&s;ting, and</P>
<P>There being many imperfections a|bout us, we need the &s;ame Spirit for our a&s;&s;i&s;ting.</P>
<P N="1">1. The ble&s;&s;ed Spirit upon the Sab|bath to re&s;i&s;t Satan, and what he &s;ecret|ly &s;ugge&s;ts to damp the duties of the day. Indeed the Divels de&s;ign is not onely to dull us in, but if po&s;&s;ibly to drive us from this day in all the duties thereof. And when he cannot keep off our bodies to carry away our hearts, he comes oft like a flood, a flood of wa|ter to hinder a flame of zeal, <HI>Revel.</HI> 12.15. <HI>And the Serpent ca&s;t out of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">is mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cau&s;e her to be carried away of the flood.</HI> When Satan &s;ees that upon the Sabbath we will go out to the Ordinan|ces of God, to quench and carry away our hearts he then cau&s;es temptations to come as a flood, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both in abundance,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And with violence.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<PB N="382" REF="212">
<P>Again&s;t this, the be&s;t helper is Gods holy Spirit, <HI>E&s;ay</HI> 59.19. <HI>VVhen the ene|my &s;hall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord &s;hall lift up a &s;tandard again&s;t him.</HI> Thus ate the billowes beat back, and the floods dryed up, and Satans de|&s;igns da&s;hed, and our &s;ouls upon the Sabbath &s;et in a more hopeful way for Spiritual work.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Spirit of God upon the Sab|bath to a&s;&s;i&s;t and help our infirmities, <HI>Rom.</HI> 8.26 <HI>Our infirmities likewi&s;e the Spi|rit helpeth; for we know not what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit it &s;elf makes interce&s;&s;ion for us with groanes that cannot be uttered.</HI> 'Tis not prayer, nor any o|ther part of Gods &s;ervice upon the Sab|bath that we can &s;piritualy perform ex|cept the Spirit a&s;&s;i&s;t. The Spirit helpeth] Or cla&s;peth in with us together, as the Greek word notes. As when a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e is too big, a work too weighty for one, others put to their helping hands, lifting and labouring together. The work of the Sabbath (e&s;pecially to be &s;pirituall therein) is above our abilities; except the Spirit clo&s;es in, and &s;ets to his a&s;&s;i&s;ting hand, &s;ervice will be &s;leepy, and &s;ouls will be dead. As 'tis &s;aid, that the whole
<PB N="383" REF="212"> &s;oul is in the whole body, and the whole &s;oul in every part of the body, to animate and actuate all: Thus the holy Spirit mu&s;t be wholly in the whole body of Sabbath-bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and whole in every particular duty, that all may be active, heavenly and lively. Upon the Lords day Gods people need the help of Gods holy Spirit,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both to tran&s;port them,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And to &s;upport them.</ITEM>
</LIST> 1. The Spirit upon the Lords day to tran&s;|port and carry them out in holy duties, beyond ordinary formalities, and their own abilities: though in the week their wings have been wetted in the world, yet upon the Sabbath they are made fit to fly and &s;oar up to God. Though upon this day Chri&s;t ro&s;e from the dead, yet it was fourty dayes after he a&s;|cended into heaven. But to a Chri&s;tian through the Spirit, as it is his re&s;urrecti|on day, &s;o it is his A&s;cen&s;ion day. As on this day he comes up from the dead: So on this day he goes up unto God.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Spirit upon the Lords day to &s;upport and keep them up in holy and heavenly frames of heart; That in Gods &s;ervice they &s;ink not,
<LIST>
<PB N="384" REF="213">
<ITEM>Either through &s;inful inclinations,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or through Satans temptations.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Good mens hearts are as <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> hands, when they are lifted up, they mu&s;t be born up. Ever &s;ince <HI>Adams</HI> fall mans natural motion is downward. The &s;oul that a&s;cends, will &s;oon de&s;cend if Gods ble&s;&s;ed Spirit does not bear it up. This made <HI>David</HI> pray, when he &s;aw the people for the &s;ervice of the Temple with their hands liberal, and their hearts lively: <HI>O Lord God,</HI> (&s;ayes he) <HI>keep this up for ever in the thoughts of the hearts of thy people,</HI> &amp;c. And Satan he &s;ets in to &s;ink the &s;oul down when it is highe&s;t in holy movings, and heavenly mountings. <HI>Matth.</HI> 4. we find when our Saviour <HI>was taken up into the holy City, and &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t upon a pinacle of the Temple,</HI> then Satan &s;olicits him, <HI>that if he were the Son of God, he might ca&s;t him&s;elf down;</HI> Such is Satans de&s;ign when he &s;ees Gods Saints taken up in holy &s;ervice, and &s;et upon the pinacle in the practi|cal part of holy Sabbaths, then he privi|ly puts in pre&s;ently to pull them down, but the Spirit helps, and holds them up.</P>
<P N="2">2. There mu&s;t be the clo&s;e concur|rings
<PB N="385" REF="213"> of our &s;pirits with God, or the Lords day cannot be &s;piritually &s;pent. Not our bodies barely, but our very &s;ouls mu&s;t &s;o &s;et in with God in Sab|bath-&s;ervice, as
<LIST>
<ITEM>Freely to &s;tirre, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Firmely to &s;tand.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. To &s;tirre freely, with readine&s;&s;e and willingne&s;&s;e of mind moving about the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of Gods ble&s;&s;ed day;
<Q><L>Though there &s;eems difficulty in work, and</L>
<L>Though there is diver&s;ity of work.</L></Q></P>
<P>Although &s;ome of the &s;ervice of the Sabbath may &s;eem difficult, yet with a prompt and ready mind to move there|to, and with all agility apt to act therein. As &s;ome of the men that <HI>Mo|&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> &s;ent to &s;earch <HI>Canaan,</HI> they came back and their hearts &s;unk, O, &s;ay they, <HI>The Cities a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e walled, and the people are &s;trong, and we can never do the work.</HI> But <HI>Caleb</HI> who had another &s;pirit, and was of a ready and re&s;olute mind, <HI>Come</HI> (&s;ayes he) <HI>let us go up and take it at once,</HI> Num. 13.30. Some are as awke to enter upon holy Sabbaths, as upon walled Cities, their hears &s;hrink back, and they &s;ay, The &s;ervice is too great, they cannot
<PB N="386" REF="214"> do it, whereas Chri&s;tians of another &s;pirit who&s;e minds are bent upon Sab|bath-bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, they &s;ay, <HI>Come let us go up through God, we &s;hall do great things this day.</HI> Yea, to have a heart free and fit to move, although the duties of the Lords day be divers, <HI>viz.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Works of piety, works of charity,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Works together, works a&s;under.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Sometimes lowly aba&s;ing our &s;elves for &s;ins committed: Sometimes highly advancing God for good vouch|&s;afed, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> As a well-tuned in&s;trument, the &s;trings are ready to &s;tir upon a light touch to divers le&s;&s;ons which the Mu&s;ician may play as he plea&s;e one after another. Thus to have a well-framed heart, apt upon the Lords day to its divers duties, prompt to pray, &s;wift to hear, ready to di&s;tribute, pre|pared to every good work, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 2.21. <HI>Tit.</HI> 3.1. Yea, to have a heart freely moving not onely about divers Ordi|nancts, but about the &s;ame Ordi|nance.</P>
<Q><L>To &s;et in a way of work &s;everall graces, and</L>
<L>To &s;et the &s;ame grace &s;everal wayes a work.</L></Q>
<PB N="387" REF="214">
<P>As in prayer, in hearing the Word, in receiving the Sacrament, in any one &s;uch &s;ervice of the Sabbath, to act up in the &s;oul &s;everal graces. Faith, Hope, Love, Sincerity, Humility, Fervency, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> To have the heart in a ready exer|ci&s;e of all the&s;e, at the u&s;e of any Ordi|nance. Yea, &s;uch an Ordinance one of the&s;e is, wherein the &s;oul of a Chri|&s;tian is to exerci&s;e the &s;ame grace &s;e|veral wayes. As in receiving the Sup|per of the Lord there is a manifold u&s;e of faith: Faith here it is as an eye to &s;ee, as a hand to take, as a tongue to ta&s;te, as a mouth to feed, as the &s;tomach to dige&s;t, retein, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Thus when Gods Saints upon the Sabbath do not onely u&s;e &s;acred Ordi|nances, but therein al&s;o exerci&s;e &s;eve|ral and &s;uitable graces: yea, and are active in their exerci&s;e, &s;o that their &s;pi|rits are quick in co-working with the good Spirit of God, then indeed do they Spiritually &s;pend this holy day.</P>
<P N="2">2. To &s;tand firmely, when the Saints of God upon the Lords day as they la|bour to get their hearts up, &s;o they are loath to let them down all the day long. Whereupon they &s;trongly &s;trive,
<Q><PB N="388" REF="215">
<L>Ri&s;ing to &s;tand fa&s;t, they may not fall, and</L>
<L>Falling to ri&s;e, they may the fa&s;ter &s;tand.</L></Q></P>
<P N="1">1. That ri&s;ing their hearts may &s;tand fa&s;t, and not fall in holy duties while the day la&s;ts. As when General <HI>Jo&s;hua</HI> was in the heat of battel again&s;t the enemies of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> having his &s;pirit fixed, he looks up to the firmiament, &s;aying, <HI>Sun &s;tand thou &s;till upon</HI> Gibeon, <HI>and the Sun &s;tood &s;till and ha&s;ted not to go down about a whole day;</HI> So a Saint of God when he is in the heat of Sabbath-&s;er|vice, his affections all on a flame, he looks in and &s;ays to his &s;oul, O my &s;oul, now &s;tand thou &s;till. Hold here, and &s;o the heart holds up, and the &s;oul &s;tands &s;till all the Lords day.</P>
<P N="2">2. That falling their hearts may ri&s;e again to a more fixed affectionate per|formance of all holy duties, <HI>Prov.</HI> 24.16. <HI>The righteous falleth &s;even times a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">y, and ri&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th again.</HI> Seven times even upon the &s;eventh day, the Sabbath day the hearts and &s;ouls of Gods Saints are &s;ub<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ect to fall, from tho&s;e heatings and heightenings they then have in duties holy. But then they &s;truggle in holy
<PB N="389" REF="215"> heats of heart to ri&s;e higher, and to fix fa&s;ter, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 108.1. <HI>O God, my heart is fixed, my heart is fixed.</HI> Fixed, and loo|&s;ened, and fixed again. Warmed and cooled, and kindled again; &s;o as that the fire is greater, and flame hotter. More abounding and abyding through the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of Gods ble&s;&s;ed day. Thus when Gods Spirit flowes in upon us, and our &s;pirits fall in with God, &s;o as with agility to act, and with &s;tability to be &s;et in all &s;weet wayes of Sabbath-works; This is Spiritually to &s;pend the Lords day.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="12" TYPE="section">
<P N="2">2. The Motives that may incite all Gods Saints to &s;uch a Spiritual &s;pend|ing the Go&s;pel-Sabbath, may ari&s;e from things of two &s;orts ob&s;ervable, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Some more antecedential, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Some more con&s;equential.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Arguments from things antecedent which may &s;et all the &s;ervants of God upon a Spiritual pa&s;&s;ing this pre&s;ent day, may be to con&s;ider [Sabbath-ward] the&s;e four things, all which we find to be &s;piritually, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Ordainer of it,</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Ordinances in it,</ITEM>
<ITEM>The ends for it, and</ITEM>
<PB N="390" REF="216">
<ITEM>The oppo&s;its again&s;t it.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P N="1">1. The Ordainer of this day, the Lord Chri&s;t, the things Spiritual con|cerning him we may di&s;cern, by con&s;i|dering of him,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both as he once was,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And as he now is.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. Chri&s;t the Lord of the Sabbath was Spiritual,
<LIST>
<ITEM>In his Conception and Birth,</ITEM>
<ITEM>In his Conver&s;ation and life,</ITEM>
<ITEM>In his Pa&s;&s;ion and death,</ITEM>
<ITEM>In his Re&s;urrection from the dead,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And in his A&s;cen&s;ion to heaven.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. Chri&s;t in his Conception and Birth was &s;piritual, he being conceived of the holy Gho&s;t in the womb of the Virgin: <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd the Angel &s;aid unto her, The holy Gho&s;t &s;hall come upon thee, and the power of the mo&s;t High &s;hall over&s;hadow thee, therefore that holy thing which &s;hall be born of thee, &s;hall be called the Son of God,</HI> Luk. 1.35, 36.</P>
<P N="2">2. Chri&s;t in his Conver&s;ation and life was Spiritual, <HI>Lo the heavens were opened u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">to him, and the Spirit of God de|&s;cending like a Dove lighted upon him,</HI> Matth. 3.16. Joh. 1.32. His joyes were
<PB N="391" REF="216"> Spiritual, <HI>Luk.</HI> 10 21. His words were Spiritual, <HI>Joh.</HI> 6.63. All his wayes in the world both towards God and men were Spiritual, <HI>Heb.</HI> 7.26.</P>
<P N="3">3. Chri&s;t in his Pa&s;&s;ion and death was Spiritual. He through the eternal Spirit offered him&s;elf without &s;pot to God, <HI>Heb.</HI> 9.14. Even when he was con|demned in the world, he was ju&s;tified in the Spirit, 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3.16.</P>
<P N="4">4. Chri&s;t in his Re&s;urrection from the dead was Spiritual, <HI>Rom.</HI> 1.4. <HI>He was de|clared to be the Son of God by the Spirit of holine&s;&s;e in his re&s;urrection from the dead,</HI> Rom. 8.11. <HI>If the Spirit of him that rai&s;ed up Je&s;us dwell in you,</HI> &amp;c. Chri&s;t put to death in the fle&s;h, but quickened in the Spirit, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3.18.</P>
<P N="5">5. Chri&s;t in his A&s;cen&s;ion to heaven was Spirituall. As he went up to God by a Spiritual a&s;&s;i&s;tance, &s;o upon a Spi|ritual de&s;ign, <HI>viz. to &s;end down the holy Spirit of promi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</HI> Joh. 16.7. <HI>It is expedi|ent for you that I go away, for if I go not away the Comforter [the Spirit of truth] will not come unto you; but if I depa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t, I will &s;end him unto you:</HI> which we find fulfilled, <HI>Act.</HI> 1. <HI>Act.</HI> 2.</P>
<P N="2">2. Chri&s;t the Lord of the Sabbath, he is Spiritual,
<LIST>
<PB N="392" REF="217">
<ITEM>Both in his po&s;itive condition,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And in his Relative tran&s;actions.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Con&s;idered in him&s;elf according to his glorified e&s;tate he is all Spiritual. His ble&s;&s;ed body is now brought be|yond all humane infirmities, filled with beauty, clarity, agility, impa&s;&s;ibility, immortality, through the eternal Spirit. In his humbled e&s;tate he was endowed and adorned with the Spirit, what then in his honoured e&s;tate? <HI>God gave him then the Spirit not by mea&s;ure,</HI> Joh. 3.34. O what immen&s;e and immea&s;urable fil|lings of the Spirit were in a crucified, much more in a glorified Chri&s;t! Such an infinite fulne&s;&s;e of the Spirit is fixed in Chri&s;t, whereby he is compleately fitted to the perfect performance of all his excellent offices. Yea, and Chri&s;t in his actings is now every way Spiritu|all,
<Q><L>Both in what he does with God for men,</L>
<L>And in what he does with men for God.</L></Q></P>
<P>With God for men,] Chri&s;t hath his Spiritual exerci&s;e. Chri&s;ts acting as an Advocate with the Father, 1 <HI>Job</HI> 2. His appearing and pleading our cau&s;e in
<PB N="393" REF="217"> the pre&s;ence of God, <HI>Heb.</HI> 9.24. His making Interce&s;&s;ion at the right hand of God, <HI>Rom.</HI> 8.33.</P>
<Q><L>As this is founded in the &s;ufficiency of his Merit,</L>
<L>So it is performed by the efficiency of his Spirit.</L></Q>
<P>As a meer man Chri&s;t does not ma|nage his Mediator&s;hip with God, but Chri&s;t in Spirit pre&s;ents unto God the Father for his members,
<LIST>
<ITEM>His de&s;erts, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>His de&s;ires.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Both what for his people he hath pur|cha&s;ed, and what to his people God hath promi&s;ed, that they may perfectly po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e, <HI>Joh.</HI> 17.21, 23, 24.</P>
<P>And with men for God,] Chri&s;t acts all Spiritually.</P>
<Q>As Chri&s;t executes his Prie&s;tly office in heaven,</Q>
<P>So he fulfils his Prophetical and Re|gal office on earth, in a way of Spiri|tu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l working.</P>
<Q><L>As with Ordinances by the Spirit, does Chri&s;t teach,</L>
<L>So by the Spirit with officers, does Chri&s;t govern.</L>
<L>As his Kingdom is Spiritual which he governs,</L>
<PB N="394" REF="218">
<L>So his government is &s;piritual of his Kingdome.</L></Q>
<P>It is through the Spirit that Chri&s;t does &s;uch great things in our dayes: as it was through the Spirit that Chri&s;t did &s;o many good things in the dayes of his fle&s;h. <HI>Being anointed with the holy Gho&s;t, he went about d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ing good,</HI> Act. 10.38. He now &s;its on his throne in heaven, yet by the holy Gho&s;t he tran&s;acts ma|nifold and marvellous things on earth. By the Spirit he writes his Law in the hearts of his people, and rules his peo|ple by the Law in their hearts.</P>
<Q><L>Leads his flock in the way they &s;hould walk, and</L>
<L>Feeds his flock as they walk in the way, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></L></Q>
<P>Thus Chri&s;t the Lord of the Sabbath is Spiritual; And &s;hall not we be Spiri|tual in the Sabbath of the Lord?</P>
<P N="2">2. The Ordinances in the Lords day are Spiritual likewi&s;e. Go through all the appointments of God, that are for this dayes exerci&s;e; Are they not Spiri|tual? If we &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;ider things that concern
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Word,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Prayer,</ITEM>
<PB N="395" REF="218">
<ITEM>Sacraments,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Singing of P&s;almes,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Collections for the poor, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Are they nor all duties to be &s;piritu|ally done? Doth not
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both the precepts of God, binde us hereto?</ITEM>
<ITEM>And the practi&s;e of the binde us hereto?</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Godly,</P>
<P N="1">1. For the Word,</P>
<P>As it is of a Spiritual nature,</P>
<P>So it is in a Spiritual manner to be managed,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both on the Mini&s;ters, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>On the peoples part.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Every part of Gods precious Word is Spiritual. The Law is Spiritual, <HI>Rom.</HI> 7.14. The Go&s;pel that is Spiritual, <HI>Rom.</HI> 1.11. Yea, becau&s;e the Law in Spiritu|ality comes &s;hort of the Go&s;pel: the Go&s;pel in glory out-goes the Law; As it is excellently opened, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 3.6, 7, 8. They that preach the glorious Go&s;pel, that is &s;o &s;urpa&s;&s;ingly Spiritual, mu&s;t endeavour to do it, in the evidences, and efficacies of the Spirit, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 2.4. <HI>My preaching</HI> (&s;ayes the Apo&s;tle) <HI>was not with enticing words of mans wi&s;dome, but in the demon&s;tration of the Spirit, and of power.</HI> When the poewr of the Spirit
<PB N="396" REF="219"> is &s;o upon the Preacher, as to put warmth into the heart, &amp; words into the mouth, and is to his &s;oul, as wind to the &s;aile, &s;o that he is carried out in clear and clo&s;e di&s;coveries of the Coun&s;el of God, <HI>Act.</HI> 18.25. And <HI>Apollos</HI> being mighty in the Scripture, and fervent in the Spirit, he &s;pake diligently the things of the Lord. <HI>Beza</HI> when he was a Preacher to the Prote&s;tant forces in <HI>France,</HI> he was &s;o mighty in his Mi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i|&s;tery, that to &s;ome his Sermons were more encouraging and quickening, then the &s;ound of Drums and Trumphts: though others Popi&s;hly di&s;po&s;ed were offended, and &s;aid his Doctrine was made up of nothing bur fire and brim|&s;tone, all combu&s;tible and terrihle. To preach in the power of the Spirit nei|ther carnal men, nor Divels can endure, but is mo&s;t plea&s;ing to God, and men &s;piritually good, being that which does mighty things, 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 10 4. <HI>The we<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pons of our warrefare are not carnal but Spi|ritual mighty through God.</HI> Spirituall weapons &s;piritually wileded, work won|ders. The Word of God which is the &s;word of the Spirit, it mu&s;t be &s;piritual|ly handled, And as they that preach the
<PB N="397" REF="219"> Go&s;pel, mu&s;t &s;piritually preach it: &s;o they that hear the Go&s;pel mu&s;t hear it &s;piritually. This is more then barely with the bodily ear to hear the voice of man, it is therein with the ear of the &s;oul through the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Spirit to hear the voice of Chri&s;t, <HI>Joh.</HI> 10.27. <HI>My &s;heep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me.</HI> Cant. 5.2. <HI>It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, &s;aying, Open to me my &s;i&s;ter, my love, my Dove, my unde|filed,</HI> &amp;c. 1 The&s;&s;. 1.5. <HI>Our Go&s;pel came not unto you in word onely, but al&s;o in power and in the holy Gho&s;t,</HI> 1 The&s;&s;. 2.13. <HI>For this cau&s;e we thank God for when ye heard the word, ye received it, not as the word of men, but (as it is in truth) the Word of God which effectually worketh in you that believe.</HI> Chri&s;tians are not &s;o to hear, as onely to take in words at the ear, but &s;o as to take in warmth at the heart. <HI>Often</HI> (&s;ayes <HI>Jerom) when I read the A|po&s;tle in his Epi&s;tles, I &s;eem not to hear words, but me thinks I hear the noi&s;e of Thunder, and as it were feel the force of lightning that &s;ets all on a fire &s;o that I am made to &s;hake, to &s;hine, to burn.</HI> Did not our hearts burn within us while he opened unto us the Scriptures? <HI>Luk</HI> 24.32.
<PB N="398" REF="220"> Such Spiritual hearing God expects of his people every Lords Day.</P>
<P N="2">2. For Prayer,] This mu&s;t be &s;piritu|ally pour'd out in the pre&s;ence of God. Gods &s;ervants,
<Q><L>As the Spirit is to be praying in them,</L>
<L>So they are to be praying in the Spirit.</L></Q></P>
<P><HI>Jude</HI> 20. <HI>But ye, beloved, building up your &s;elves in your mo&s;t holy &s;aith, praying in the holy Spirit.</HI></P>
<Q><L>Both in the Spirit of love and unity.</L>
<L>And in the Spirit of life and fervency.</L></Q>
<P>Not cla&s;hing, but with clo&s;e agree|ments of &s;oul, carrying out the &s;ame &s;uit, Symphonical in prayer: <HI>Matth</HI> 18.19. <HI>If two of you &s;hall agree on earth touching any thing they &s;hould ask, it &s;hall be done.</HI> It notes &s;uch a &s;ymphony and agreement of the &s;oules of Gods Saints in prayer, as Mu&s;icians who with &s;eve|ral In&s;truments play the &s;ame tune. Not cooling, but with kindled enlargements to be affectionate in prayer, fired with the Spirit. <HI>'Tis</HI> (&s;ayes <HI>Luther) for want of the fire of the Spirit in Preaching, that Sermons prevail &s;o little with men: and 'tis for want of the fire of the Spirit in pray|ing,
<PB N="399" REF="220"> that petitions are no more prevailing with God.</HI> As in confe&s;&s;ions of &s;in our hearts mu&s;t be wounded with bitter &s;orrowes; So in petitions for Grace our hearts mu&s;t be warmed with burn|ing De&s;ires. Gods people are to be to|gether praying with their Hearts as Bells rai&s;ed, and to ring &s;uch a loud peal of prayer as may be heard into hea|ven. Such &s;piritual praying is expe|cted of God, as duly as the Lords Day comes.</P>
<P N="3">3. For the Sacraments,] <HI>Viz,</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both Bapti&s;me, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Lords Supper.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<Q><L>As they are &s;piritual for the Principal of them:</L>
<L>So the Practice of them, mu&s;t be &s;pi|ritual.</L></Q>
<P>The Principal of each Sacrament is the &s;piritual part thereof. The outward Element is but as the tran&s;ient &s;hadow. The &s;piritual and enduring &s;ub&s;tance is Chri&s;t him&s;elf with his Cro&s;&s;e, with his Grace, with his Merits, Mercies, Excel|lencies, and Al-&s;ufficiencies, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 10.3, 4. <HI>They (viz.</HI> our fathers of old) <HI>did all eat the &s;ame &s;piritual Meat, and did all drink the &s;ame spiritual Drink; (for they
<PB N="340" REF="221"> drank of the Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Chri&s;t.)</HI> As when our Sa|viour rode in Triumph to <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> Luk. 19. the company that went before, and they which followed after; All cry'd <HI>Ho&s;anna:</HI> Thus the Sacraments of the Old Te&s;tament that went before, and the Sacraments of the New Te&s;ta|ment that follow after, all &s;ay to Chri&s;t, <HI>Ho&s;anna.</HI> All point at Chri&s;t, &s;aying, <HI>Behold the Lamb of God.</HI></P>
<P>The Practice or tran&s;actions of the Sacraments mu&s;t be &s;piritual,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both on Gods part,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And on our part.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>In Bapti&s;me all depends upon the powerful pre&s;ence of the Spirit. At the Beginning, when t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Spirit moved upon the waters, then were the creatures made: And &s;o when the Spirit moveth upon the waters of Bapti&s;me, then is Gods work done. And our work there|in after is all to be done through the Spirit. In the fir&s;t receiving of Bap|ti&s;me we were totally pa&s;&s;ive: but for the further improving of Bapti&s;me we ought to be &s;piritually active.</P>
<P>A &s;piritual U&s;e we are bound to make of Bapti&s;me,
<LIST>
<PB N="401" REF="221">
<ITEM>Both to keep us off from evil,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And to keep us on in all good.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><HI>Luther</HI> reports of a pious Maid, who by her Bapti&s;me bore up again&s;t the &s;everal a&s;&s;aults of Satan. If Satan &s;ought to draw her to &s;in, Her reply was, <HI>I dare not do it, I have been Baptized.</HI> If to draw her from Duties, her reply was, <HI>I dare not but do it, I have been Baptized.</HI> We &s;hould ob&s;erve, that to fly &s;in, and fol|low God, we are Bapti&s;me-bound: But for want of this, how does Bapti&s;me lye like a Dead Ordinance? What multi|tudes are there, who making no Spiri|tual Improvements of it, they make many Carnal Arguments again&s;t it? Becau&s;e they never knew how to work it up, they ea&s;ily learn how to cry it down. They &s;ay the Truth and life of Bapti&s;me lyes in their deep Dippings, and Water-Buryings.</P>
<P>But &s;ure a little water and much fire,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bapti&s;mus flaminis et flaminis.</NOTE> makes the be&s;t Bapti&s;me. <HI>I indeed</HI> (&s;ayes <HI>John) baptize you with water, but he that comes after me is mightier then I, he &s;hall baptize you with the Holy Gho&s;t, and with fire,</HI> Matth. 3.</P>
<P>[Again&s;t their Water-works, we may &s;ee God angry in our want of water.]</P>
<PB N="402" REF="222">
<P>In the Lords Supper;] All the great works which both God and we are to do, be &s;piritual.</P>
<P>What God is to do, in
<LIST>
<ITEM>Preparing,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Declaring,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Conferring,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Confirming;</ITEM>
</LIST> All are &s;pi|ritual.</P>
<P>Chri&s;t, the hidden Manna for the heart, and the hidden Man it &s;elf of the heart, which God makes ready, by cau|&s;ing hungring, humble, and holy De|&s;ires, by quickening Graces, calling up all Divine qualities, abilities, &amp;c.</P>
<P>That pre&s;enting and &s;etting forth Chri&s;t as Shew-bread on the Table, evidencing and opening Chri&s;t, his Wounds, his Worth, &amp;c.</P>
<P>That giving Chri&s;t his Body to be eat, and his Blood to be drunk, that is meat indeed, and drink indeed: whole Chri&s;t given out, &amp;c.</P>
<P>That &s;ettling &s;oules in the a&s;&s;urance of his love, &s;o as they may proceed in the paths of Piety and Peace.</P>
<P>Are not all the&s;e &s;piritual Acts?</P>
<P>What we are to do, in
<LIST>
<ITEM>Remembring,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Di&s;cerning,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Applying,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Imploying;</ITEM>
</LIST> All are &s;pi|ritual.</P>
<PB N="403" REF="222">
<P>To remember Chri&s;t cruc fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d by Me|ditation, to look back on the bitter &s;ufferings, and bloody death of our ble&s;&s;ed Lord, till the heart be warm'd, and wound up.</P>
<P>To di&s;cern Chri&s;t, &s;o as that the out|ward Elements are as bright Gla&s;&s;es, and broad Lattices through which we &s;ee the Lord looking, and behold the Bounty of his Goodne&s;&s;e, and Beauties of his Holine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>To apply Chri&s;t, &s;o as to take and eat not barely the bread of the Lord, but al&s;o the Bread which is the Lord. <HI>Potiphar's</HI> wife had the Garment, but <HI>Jo|&s;eph</HI> him&s;elf fled from her. The Elements are but the garments, 'tis <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> him&s;elf, and <HI>Je&s;us</HI> him&s;elf that we apprehend.</P>
<P>To imploy and make u&s;e of Chri&s;t, &s;o as to go from the Table of the Lord, <HI>in the power of the Lord, and &s;trength of his might,</HI> meet for all managements. In the&s;e &s;piritual actings, lyeth the life of the Lords Supper.</P>
<P N="4">4. For &s;inging of P&s;almes;] This is a &s;piritual &s;ervice, <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 5.18, 19. <HI>Be fil|led with the Spirit, Speaking to your &s;elves in P&s;almes, and hymns, and &s;piritual &s;ongs, &s;inging, and making melody in your hearts
<PB N="404" REF="223"> unto the Lord,</HI> Colo&s;&s;. 3.16. 1 Cor. 14.15. <HI>I will</HI> (&s;ayes the Apo&s;tle) <HI>pray with the Spirit, and pray with the under|&s;tanding al&s;o: I will &s;ing with the Spirit, and I will &s;ing with the under&s;tanding al&s;o. Luther</HI> was wont to make a large and lively u&s;e of the P&s;almes of <HI>David.</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Johan. Manl. loc Com. Pag. <HI>43.</HI></NOTE> Ac|cording as he had his &s;everal &s;ufferings, he had his &s;uitable P&s;almes. Having been under Satans &s;ad A&s;&s;aults, <HI>Come,</HI> (&s;ayes he to &s;ome company about him) <HI>Let us go &s;ing the</HI> 130 <HI>P&s;alm in de&s;pight of the Devil.</HI></P>
<P>A precious Mini&s;ter once in <HI>England,</HI> now with God, being upon the waters with &s;ome friends in a Boat, <HI>Come,</HI> (&s;ayes he) <HI>let us &s;ing the</HI> 16 <HI>P&s;alm.</HI></P>
<P>And when they had pa&s;s'd through tho&s;e words,
<Q><L>Of perfect joy are in thy face,</L>
<L>And plea&s;ure for evermore:</L></Q></P>
<P>His &s;pirit &s;o wrought, and heart &s;o leap'd, that he affectionately broke out, <HI>What? plea&s;ure for evermore? O let us &s;ing that again.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Nicepho. Hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. Ec|cle&s;. lib. <HI>3.</HI> ca. <HI>37.</HI></NOTE>Hi&s;tory &s;peaks much of the zeal of the Primitive Chri&s;tians, how by &s;ing|ing of P&s;almes, they were wont to make hard work &s;eem ea&s;ie, and long jour|neys
<PB N="540" REF="223"> appear &s;hort, and bitter cups ta&s;te &s;weet. In all their Travels and Trou|bles, Doubts and dark conditions, they u&s;e to ea&s;e them&s;elves, and chear their &s;oules by this heavenly &s;ervice, which they &s;piritually performed, however now &s;infully &s;lighted.</P>
<P N="6">6. Collections for the Poor.] This is al&s;o a Duty to be &s;piritually done,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both Pondering,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And Pitying,</ITEM>
</LIST> Per&s;ons in Poverty.</P>
<P>Pondering and con&s;idering &s;uch as are in a poor condition, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 41.1. <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed is he that con&s;idereth the poor and the needy:</HI> Not onely relieves them with his hand, but layes their ca&s;e to heart. <HI>Con&s;iders the poor.]</HI> The ground of their poverty, whether it be good, whether that it be from Gods hand upon them, or mens hands again&s;t them for Gods &s;ake. The degree of their poverty whether that it be great. <HI>Con&s;iders the poor and needy.]</HI> That is, &s;uch as are mi&s;erably poor, nee|dine&s;&s;e noting extream poverty.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Quanta nobis pau|pertas, im&ograve; ege&s;tas. <HI>Se|neca,</HI> Epi&s;t. ad <HI>Lucil|lum.</HI></NOTE> A good man &s;o con&s;iders this, as accord|ing to the poores Nece&s;&s;ity, he propor|tions his Charity. To help he does not onely reach out his hand, but drawes out his heart. <HI>If thou draw out thy
<PB N="406" REF="224"> &s;oul to the Hungry,</HI> E&s;ay 38.10.</P>
<P>With Bowels of Pity compa&s;&s;ionating per&s;ons in their impoveri&s;hed condi|tion. There is little of this Duty done, except with the bounty and contribu|tions of the hand, there goes the Pity and compa&s;&s;ions of the heart, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 13.4 <HI>If I be&s;tow all my goods to feed the poor, and ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e not chari<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y, 'tis nothing.</HI> Liberal al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es are nothing, without a fpirit of love; Love to Chri&s;t, and love to men as the members of Chri&s;t: herein lyes the life of liberality. This is &s;piri|tual.</P>
<P N="6">6. Inflicting of Cen&s;ures.] This is al&s;o to be done
<Q><L>Both with a &s;pirit of zeal again&s;t the offending per&s;on;</L>
<L>And with a &s;pirit of love unto the per&s;on offending.</L></Q></P>
<P>There ought to be anger and grief again&s;t the &s;candal of the man; and yet compa&s;&s;ion and love towards the man that is &s;candalous, 1 <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or</HI> 5.2, 3. <HI>Ye have not mourned, that he which hath done this deed be taken from among you. I verily as ab&s;ent in body, but pre&s;ent in &s;pirit, have judged concerning him that hath done this deed. In the Name of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t,
<PB N="407" REF="224"> when ye are gathered together, and my &s;pi|rit&punc; with the power of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t: To deliver &s;uch to Satan for the de&s;truction of the fle&s;h; [yet with affections to the &s;oul] That the Spirit may be &s;aved in the day of our Lord Je&s;us.</HI> This ca&s;ting out mu&s;t have a &s;piritual carriage, and be upon &s;piritual accounts. Thus all the bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e that belongs to the Lords day, is and ought to be &s;piritual.</P>
<P N="3">3. The ends for which the Lords day was appointed, are al&s;o &s;piritual. Whe|ther we con&s;ider
<Q><L>The end primary, <HI>viz.</HI></L>
<L>The glory of God, or</L>
<L>The end &s;econdary, <HI>viz.</HI></L>
<L>The good of man.</L></Q></P>
<P>And the&s;e are to be our &s;piritual aims in Sabbath-times, that the Lords graci|ous ends and ours may &s;uite.</P>
<P N="1">1. Sabbaths are &s;ea&s;ons &s;et apart for the exalting the glory of God,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both in his &s;piritual being</ITEM>
<ITEM>And in his &s;piritual working.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>That the glorious being of <HI>God ble&s;&s;ed for ever</HI> might the better be &s;et out, the Sabbath was &s;et up. Although there is no day wherein we can add any glory to God: yet on this day does God o|pen
<PB N="408" REF="225"> much of his glory to us.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Apud Per|&s;as per&s;ona regis &s;ub &s;pecie Ma|je&s;ta tis &s;oc|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u litur, &amp;c. <HI>Ju&s;tin.</HI> lib. <HI>1.</HI></NOTE> Hi&s;torians report, that it was a great part of the pomp of the <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> Kings, that they were &s;eldom &s;een: but upon &s;ome very high dayes they u&s;e to &s;hew them&s;elves to their people in their mo&s;t Princely at|tire, when they were &s;o much the more admired and adored. The Sabbath is that high and holy day, whereon God &s;o &s;hewes him&s;elf to his &s;ervants in his garments of glory, that they are made much to admire and adore him, who at other &s;ea&s;ons is more conceal'd. Our Saviour after his re&s;urrection and be|gun glorification, &s;till took this day to di&s;cover him&s;elf unto his Di&s;ciples, <HI>Joh.</HI> 20.19.20. Upon this <HI>fir&s;t day of the week, when they were a&s;&s;embled, he &s;hewed them</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>His hands, and</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>His &s;ide.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST> <HI>Then were they glad.</HI></P>
<P>Thus upon the Sabbath the Lord &s;hewes to his &s;ervants
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both his hands</ITEM>
<ITEM>And his &s;ide.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P><HI>His hands,]</HI> That is, the great things he hath wrought in them and for them, acts of his glorious Attributes.</P>
<P><HI>His &s;ide,]</HI> That is, the good thoughts he hath further towards them, intend|ments
<PB REF="225"> of eternal good will. All which makes for the manife&s;tation of Gods great glory. And although we can ne|ver mention that glory which God did nor before po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e: yet we may mani|fe&s;t that glory of God which our &s;ouls did not before perceive. We never &s;ee the Sun of Gods glory to &s;hine &s;o bright, as upon this ble&s;&s;ed day. It be|ing the very end why this day was ble&s;|&s;ed, that thereon the brightne&s;&s;e of Gods glory might be the better &s;een.</P>
<P N="2">2. The Sabbath is &s;et up to promote mans good,
<LIST>
<ITEM>In his &s;piritual part, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>In his &s;piritual e&s;tate.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>To wit, his &s;oul in the concerments of grace, thar he may be ca&s;t into a &s;piri|tual mould, and become a &s;piritual man. The appointments of Sabbath-time is to &s;et and keep &s;ouls in a &s;piritual frame,
<Q><L>Both by the fir&s;t infu&s;ions of grace,</L>
<L>And by the further additions of grace.</L></Q></P>
<P>Mans heart is hardly put into a &s;piritual temper: and as hardly kept in a &s;piritul order. It would never ri&s;e from cor|ruption or &s;oon fall into confu&s;ion were it not for Sabbath-a&s;&s;i&s;tances. Should we have onely week-time, and be all
<PB N="410" REF="226"> for worldly things, and have no time of Sabbath for &s;oul-concernments, into what an ill ca&s;e would our &s;ouls &s;oon &s;ink? As <HI>Abraham</HI> accounted all his earthly comforts nothing while he went childle&s;&s;e, &s;onle&s;&s;e: &s;o &s;hould we e&s;teem all our worldly enjoyments nothing, if we went Sabbathle&s;&s;e. Indeed did we go Sabbathle&s;&s;e, we &s;hould be in dan|ger to go Saviourle&s;&s;e, Chri&s;tle&s;&s;e, heavenle&s;&s;e, to lo&s;e God and all that is &s;piritually good. But that we may not lo&s;e, but gain God and all &s;piritual good, this day is drawn out from the common lump of time, and &s;et apart to advance, as Gods &s;piritual prai&s;e: &s;o mans &s;piritual profit. Thus the ends of the Lords day are &s;piritual.</P>
<P N="4">4. The oppo&s;ites are &s;piritual again&s;t the day,
<LIST>
<ITEM>As Satan, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Seducing men.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. Satan again&s;t the Sabbath-day, as he is a &s;piritual, he is a &s;piteful foe: he knowes if he can make this fall, other things will fly. As the <HI>A&s;&s;yrian</HI> General &s;aid to his forces, <HI>Fight neither again&s;t great, nor &s;mall, but again&s;t the King of</HI> I&s;rael: So &s;ayes Satan to all his in&s;tru|ments,
<PB N="411" REF="226"> Contend neither with great nor &s;mall, but with the day of the Sabbath, down with it, down with it. Satan a|gain&s;t the Sabbath &s;eeks,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Either to beat it out from men,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or to beat men off from it.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Here may I make a mournful mention of a good woman, who by rea&s;on of her &s;oul safflicted condition, I have had with her the occa&s;ion of many a &s;ad conference; and though her u&s;uall e&s;tate was full of extreame &s;trange a&s;|&s;aults, yet I have frequently ob&s;erved, and the &s;ame her &s;elf hath oft freely confe&s;&s;ed, that &s;till as the Lords day grew nearer&punc; her temptation grew &s;tronger. Never &s;uch &s;ad bouts, and &s;ore buffets as upon &s;ome Saturday-nights. Whereby &s;he hath been ordi|narily unfitted for the following Sab|bath, and oft times violently hindred, e&s;pecially from the publick Ordinances for divers Lords dayes together, unto her after great grief. Wherein I cannot but conclude the wiles and &s;ubtil works of Satan, as the Sabbaths great enemy. Yea, Satans de&s;ign is,
<Q><L>Either that men may not at all mind it,</L>
<L>Or that they may not &s;piritually &s;pend</L>
<PB N="412" REF="227">
<L>Either to draw them from the day in its duties,</L>
<L>Or to dull them in the duties of the day.</L></Q></P>
<P>A zealous &s;anctification of the Sab|bath Satan to his utmo&s;t power op|po&s;es. He cannot abide the &s;pirit of burning &s;hould be upon us in the bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e of Gods ble&s;&s;ed day. As the holy Spirit puts us into the fire, the unclean &s;pirit oft ca&s;ts us into the water; &s;o that our hearts heavenly kindled, are com|monly cooled. The Divels, <HI>Ephe&s;.</HI> 6.12. are called [&s;piritual wickedne&s;&s;es,] or the &s;pirituals of wickedne&s;&s;e, as tis in the Greek.</P>
<Q><L>As they are wicked Spirits,</L>
<L>So they are the &s;pirits of wicked|ne&s;&s;e.</L></Q>
<P>And as they are &s;o &s;piritually bad: &s;o they cannot abide what is &s;piritually good. As &s;piritual &s;inning again&s;t God they mo&s;t &s;eek to provoke: &s;o &s;piri|tuall &s;erving of God they mo&s;t &s;eek to prevent. The divel can be content men &s;hould forbear bodily acts of filthine&s;&s;e, if they will but pur&s;ue &s;piritual &s;inful|ne&s;&s;e: &s;o can he be content men &s;hould perform outward acts of Religion, if they
<PB N="413" REF="227"> will but cea&s;e from &s;piritual &s;ervice; they may be at all th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Ordinances of God upon the Lords day, &s;o they be not &s;piritual in any; not mi&s;&s;e a Sabbath, &s;o they pa&s;&s;e not any &s;piritually.</P>
<P N="3">3. Seducing per&s;ons are Sabbath-oppo&s;ers. The&s;e are called [&s;pirits] 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 4.1.</P>
<Q><L>Becau&s;e there be &s;pirits that act them,</L>
<L>And beca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> they act like &s;pirits.</L></Q>
<P>They be men whom &s;pirits act, <HI>viz.</HI> the &s;pirit which i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the world, the &s;pi|rit of the Divel, the &s;pirit of pride and fal&s;ehood, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">e &s;pirit of error and Antichri&s;t, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>They be men who act as &s;pirits with &s;ubtilty, &s;edulity, agility, re&s;tle&s;&s;e and un|wearied, creeping up and down, com|pa&s;&s;ing places to and fro, abu&s;ing Scrip|ture to propagate error, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> The&s;e op|po&s;e Gods precious Sabbath, &s;eeking
<LIST>
<ITEM>Either directly to overturn it,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Or remotely to undermine it.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Directly,] By Athei&s;tical arguing again&s;t all Gods holy times and things, profe&s;&s;edly and profanely de&s;pi&s;ing of, and di&s;puting again&s;t, as the doctrine of Sanctification, &s;o the day which God hath &s;anctified.</P>
<PB N="414" REF="228">
<P>Remotely,] By &s;etting again&s;t &s;uch as are Sabbath &s;upports, <HI>viz.</HI>
<Q><L>Again&s;t Ordinances u&s;ed in publick,</L>
<L>And again&s;t in&s;truments of publick u&s;e.</L></Q></P>
<P>Ordinances they clamour down, e&s;pe|cially &s;ome, as &s;inging of P&s;almes, ad|mini&s;tring of Sacraments, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> endea|vouring (if po&s;&s;ible) to pull away one Ordinance after another, till they leave the day de&s;titute of all. <HI>As</HI> Rachel <HI>weepi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g for her children.</HI> Hence there is &s;uch a &s;ad cea&s;ing of &s;everal Ordinances in &s;ome Congregations, that the Lords day may &s;peak like <HI>Jacob Jo&s;eph is not, and Simeon is not, and will ye take Benjamin away al&s;o? all t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">is is again&s;t me,</HI> Gen. 43. In&s;truments the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> thru&s;t &s;ore at, that are for Sabbath-U&s;e: Mini&s;ters by their law mu&s;t be laid in the du&s;t. Their en|deavours are to deal wor&s;e with the Servants of Chri&s;t, then <HI>Hanun</HI> with the &s;ervants of <HI>David,</HI> 2 Sam. 10.4. <HI>He &s;haved off the one half of their Beards, and cut off their Garments in the middle, &amp;c.</HI> But the&s;e &s;eek to &s;have, and cut off all, both countenance, and maintenance, and to leave Mini&s;ters under poverty, and perpetual reproach. And are not
<PB N="315" REF="228"> the&s;e Enemies to Sabbaths, and publick A&s;&s;emblies? And are all the&s;e [Sab|bath-ward] &s;piritual? The Ordainer of it &s;piritual. The Ordinances in it &s;piritual. The ends for it &s;piritul. The oppo&s;ites again&s;t it &s;piritual. And &s;hall not we be &s;piritual, &s;o as that we may be in the &s;pirit on the Lords day? Thus are the antecedent arguments, arguments from things &s;ub&s;equent: let us &s;ee, <HI>viz.</HI> what de&s;irable effects will follow upon &s;piritual &s;pending of the Lords day. Hereby we &s;hall rai&s;e
<LIST>
<ITEM>Our &s;ouls advantage,</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Sabbaths excellency,</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Lords acceptance, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Lands concernments.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. To be &s;pirituall in the Sabbath, will be exceedingly for our &s;ouls advan|tage.</P>
<Q><L>It will be operative for our pre&s;ent good on earth, and</L>
<L>It will be preparative for our future good in heaven.</L></Q>
<P>This will work us much &s;piritual good on earth. For hereby
<Q><L>Grace &s;hall be encrea&s;'d into Com|forts, and</L>
<L>Comforts &s;hall be encrea&s;'d through Grace.</L></Q></P>
<P N="1"><PB REF="229">1. Hereby comes a comfortable en|crea&s;e of Graces: for if we be &s;piritual upon the Lords Day in duties,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Then Grace is acting in Us, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>We are then acting in Grace.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The which actings, makes for the aug|mentings of it.</P>
<P>Grace it acts in Us.] When we are &s;piritual on the Sabbath, then grace is not in the Spark, but in the Flame, and &s;o ri&s;es and runs on. Grace is then not barely in the root, but in the branch; &s;o that it &s;prings and &s;preads out.</P>
<P>We act in Grace.] This addes to its further degrees. The way to enjoy that Grace we have not, is to imploy that Grace we have. While we are &s;piritu|ally &s;pending the Sabbath, we are in the Imployments, and &s;o in the Improve|ments of grace. Grace is greatned in us, and we do great things through Grace. <HI>Eli&s;ha</HI> when he had not onely the Mantle, but the Spirit of his Lord <HI>Elijah,</HI> he went and wrought wonderful works. When upon the Sabbath we have not barely the Mantle, <HI>viz.</HI> the Ordinance of Chri&s;t, but al&s;o the Spirit of Chri&s;t; yea, wrapp'd in the Spirit as a Mantle, then are we meet to leap
<PB N="417" REF="229"> Mountains, and look Devils in the fac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">: To Triumph in the Lord, and tread Death in the du&s;t, 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15.54.</P>
<P N="2">2. Hereby comes in a gracious en|crea&s;e of Comforts.</P>
<Q><L>Comforts &s;piritual are &s;pringing,</L>
<L>While the Lords Day is &s;piritually &s;pending.</L></Q>
<P>Being in the Spirit which is the Com|forter, we cannot but be in the Com|forts of the Spirit.</P>
<P>'Tis a true Rule. That mo&s;t cheeres the heart, which be&s;t clears the e&s;tate. But &s;piritually to &s;pend the Lords Day, it clears a Chri&s;tians good e&s;tate God|ward. An external ob&s;erving of the Sabba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h does di&s;tingui&s;h us f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">om Pa|gans; But a &s;piritual &s;pending the Sab|bath does difference us from Hypo|crites. An Hypocrite in the Sabbaths outward ob&s;ervation may &s;eem very preci&s;e, <HI>Luk.</HI> 13.14, 15. But he never ri&s;es to be &s;piritual in the Sabbaths of God, and &s;ervice of God. A &s;piritual-&s;pent Sabbath is a &s;ure &s;ign of a &s;incere heart, and &s;aving e&s;tate. This therefore may well be a cau&s;e of the Incomes of Comfort. Would we have the profit, peace, and comfort of the Lords Day,
<PB N="418" REF="230"> let us be &s;piritual then in our Duty. They who &s;pend the Sabbath &s;piritle&s;&s;e; they pa&s;&s;e the Sabbath profitle&s;&s;e, comfort|le&s;&s;e. The more we have of the Spirit on the Sabbath, the more we &s;hall have of profit by the Sabbath, and comfort in the Sabbath.</P>
<Q><L>This will &s;ecure us from the wor&s;t of Judgments;</L>
<L>And the be&s;t of Mercies this will a&s;|&s;ure us of.</L></Q>
<P>The wor&s;t of Judgments, to wit, &s;uch as are &s;piritual, hereby we e&s;cape; and the be&s;t of Mercies, that is, &s;uch as are &s;piritual, through this we partake. Divers that come out on the Sabbath, and do the outward &s;ervice, yet they fall &s;hort of &s;piritual Mercies; and they fall under &s;piritual Mi&s;eries, becau&s;e they ri&s;e not to &s;piritual Duties. By being &s;piritual in the &s;ervice of the Sab|bath, O the &s;weet Soul-advantage that is unto the Saints of God! Yea, this it fits us for all &s;piritual good in Heaven, puts into us Heart-capacities for Hea|ven-felicities. In Heaven all is &s;piri|tual, enjoyments &s;piritual, imployments &s;piritual, company, comforts &s;piritual. To be &s;piritual in the holy Sabbath,
<Q><PB N="419" REF="230">
<L>As it be&s;t declares the Heavenly e&s;tate,</L>
<L>So it be&s;t prepares for the &s;tate of Heaven.</L></Q></P>
<P>That Sabbath which Saints &s;hall for ever have with God, will all be &s;piri|tual. That this Sabbath may be as a re&s;emblance of that, and an Introducti|on to that, we ought to be &s;piritual.</P>
<P N="2">2. To be &s;piritual, will much advance the Sabbaths excellency: O how much is the Beauty and Glory of Gods-Day gone! the honour and lu&s;tre of the Lords-Day lo&s;t! Undoubtedly our Duty is, as together
<Q><L>To condole the Dignity of it down:</L>
<L>So to endeavour to rai&s;e up the Dig|nity.</L></Q></P>
<P>'Tis matter of bitter &s;orrow to &s;ee the Sabbath &s;o Eclip&s;ed. One writes of the <HI>Barbarians</HI> in the <HI>Ea&s;t-Indies,</HI> that &s;eeing the Sun Eclip&s;ed in the year 1600. they fa&s;ted, wept and cry'd all the day long, <HI>O we mi&s;erable people! the Dragon hath devour'd the Sun; alas, alas, we have lo&s;t the Sun, &amp;c.</HI> O how much may we la|ment in <HI>England</HI> to &s;ee the Brightne&s;&s;e of Gods ble&s;&s;ed Day dimm'd, the light and life of the Lords Day lo&s;t. How
<PB N="420" REF="231"> hath the Devil with his doctrines, and the doctrines of Devils almo&s;t devoured the Sabbath! We have the Body of the Day, but the &s;oul of the Day, the Spirit of the Day is gone, with the greate&s;t part even of profe&s;&s;ing Chri&s;tians, who though they retain the Truth, they have let go the life of Religion, and may well weep over dead Dayes and Duties.</P>
<P>To recover among&s;t us true Sabbath-life, 'tis requi&s;ite,
<Q><L>That God enliven the Day to us, and</L>
<L>That we towards God be lively in the Day.</L></Q></P>
<P N="1">1. We mu&s;t labour with the Lord, who quickens the Dead, to enliven this Day. When the Ruler of the Syna|gogues Daughter was dead, no &s;ooner did our Saviour &s;ay, <HI>Dam&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l ari&s;e, but her &s;pirit came into her again, and &s;he aro&s;e &s;traightway,</HI> Luk. 8.54, 55. Let but our Lord &s;ay over his Dead Sabbath, Day ari&s;e, and the Spirit will come into it again, and &s;traightway all will be well. O what quickenings &amp; kindlings, when the Spirit of life, and the Spirit of burning from above &s;hall abide upon Sabbaths, the &s;ervice and &s;ervants of God &s;etting all on a fire! When <HI>Elijah</HI> &amp; <HI>Eli&s;ha</HI> were
<PB N="421" REF="231"> going together, <HI>there appeared a chariot of fire, and hor&s;es of fire, and a whi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lwind came which caught up Elijah, and he was carried into heaven,</HI> 2 King. 2.11. Thus upon the Sabbath, when Gods &s;ervants are together, and there appear In&s;tru|ments and Ordinances all on a fire, Mini&s;ters on fire, and Sermons on fire, and the Spirit as a whirlewind comes, O what carryings then up of hearts into heaven! This is the Honour of the Day.</P>
<P N="2">2. We mu&s;t labour with our &s;elves in all the Lords Dayes-Duties to be lively, and with the Spirit of the Lord to act high for God, and to be heart-warm at work. All the Sacrifices of the Sab|bath mu&s;t be Burnt-offerings: Every &s;ervice fir'd with zeal. Indeed, for Chri&s;tians while they are on the Week-dayes in worldly company to be cool'd, is common; [<HI>Peter</HI> never gat &s;uch a cold as at the High Prie&s;ts fire among tho&s;e &s;ervants, he warm'd him&s;elf till he lo&s;t his heat:] but for Chri&s;tians when they are together on the Sabbath in holy A&s;&s;emblies, to have hearts cold, and affectiont flat, as 'tis a di&s;honour to the Lord of the Sabbath; &s;o 'tis a
<PB N="422" REF="232"> di&s;honour to the Sabbath of the Lord. Chri&s;tians &s;hould be like Angels who are called <HI>[Seraphims]</HI> for their fiery zeal in the &s;ervice of God. And &s;o to be zealous in Sabbath-Duty, will rai&s;e the Dignity of the Sabbath. This will admirably evidence,
<Q><L>As Gods Intere&s;t in the Day,</L>
<L>So the excellency of this Day of God.</L></Q></P>
<P>The more we have herein of Heat and fervour, life and vigour, the better we demon&s;trate the Day is Gods. As the true Mother in the Kings cry'd, <HI>The living &s;on is mine:</HI> &s;o &s;ayes God, The living Sabbath is mine. As when Chri&s;t was rai&s;ed from the Dead, then he was declared to be the Son of God, <HI>Rom.</HI> 1.4. So let the Sabbath ri&s;e from the dead to its due life and lu&s;tre, and then 'twill appear to be the Day of God. Yea, the more Vigorous and Spiritual we be in the Day, the more glorious and excellent will the day be. O what ad|vantage is to the bodies of men, when after death they are rais'd again? Read 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15.42, 43, 44. <HI>It is &s;owen in corrup|tion, it is rai&s;ed in incorruption; it is &s;owen in di&s;honour, it is rai&s;ed in honour; it is &s;owen
<PB N="423" REF="232"> in weakne&s;&s;e, it is rai&s;ed in power; it is &s;owen a natural body, it is rai&s;ed a &s;piritual body.</HI> Thus will it be with the Lords Day, when it &s;hall be rai&s;ed from the dead, as it will be more &s;piritual in its Nature; &s;o it will be more tran&s;plen|dent in its Lu&s;tre; greater in power, higher in honour, all redounding to the dignity of it. This will bring the Sab|bath as the Sun to break forth from un|der tho&s;e black clouds with which it is now darkened.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Lords acceptance will be certain if we &s;piritually &s;anctifie the Sabbath. This with the Lord will be acceptable, becau&s;e it is &s;uitable,
<Q><L>As to the precepts which God gives,</L>
<L>So to God which gives the precepts.</L></Q></P>
<P N="1">1. The precept or command given of God requires a &s;piritual care in Sab|bath-keeping. <HI>Remember the Sabbath-day to keep i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> holy;]</HI> This implies a re|membrance of the Sabbath day to keep it &s;piritually, let the &s;pirituality of the day be rai&s;ed, and the &s;anctitie of the day will not &s;ink, but be better &s;een. This will hold out the dayes-hidden holine&s;&s;e, and meet Gods command that calls to keep it holy. And &s;uch
<PB N="424" REF="233"> Sabbath-keeoing, is to God well-plea|&s;ing, <HI>E&s;ay</HI> 56.4. It being that which complies with Gods pre&s;cribed Will, <HI>E&s;ay</HI> 58.13.</P>
<P N="2">2. God him&s;elf from whom &s;uch pre|cepts proceed, is hereby re&s;embled. God is a Spirit and a &s;piritual being, &s;o that &s;piritual-&s;pent Sabbaths, and &s;piritual-performed duties, do be&s;t &s;uite a Spiri|tual God, and &s;o are accepted. A good God being &s;piritual, &s;piritual good is mo&s;t acceptable to God, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2.5. <HI>To offer up &s;piritual &s;acrifices acceptable to God</HI> Acceptable, becau&s;e &s;piritual: <HI>With &s;uch &s;acrifices God is well plea&s;ed,</HI> Heb. 13.16.</P>
<Q><L>That be&s;t likes God,</L>
<L>Which is mo&s;t like to God,</L></Q>
<P>To be &s;piritual on the Sabbath, the Lord likes it, and loves it; it is &s;o plea|&s;ing to God, that he does highly prize it and prai&s;e it.</P>
<Q><L>As it is a thing for the prai&s;e of God,</L>
<L>So it is a thing with God of prai&s;e.</L></Q>
<P>To be in the &s;pirit of the Sabbath, and to be on the Sabbath in the &s;pirit,
<Q><L>As it will make for Gods prai&s;e from us,</L>
<L>So it will prove our prai&s;e with God.</L></Q></P>
<PB N="425" REF="233">
<P>The Apo&s;tle declaring who are now to be accounted Jewes, and what is cir|cumci&s;ion under the Go&s;pel, &s;ayes, <HI>Rom.</HI> 2.28, 29. <HI>He is not a Jew which is one outwardly, neither is that circumci&s;ion that is outward in the fle&s;h: but he is a Jew which is one inwardly, and circumci&s;ion is that of the heart, in the Spirit and not in the letter, who&s;e prai&s;e is not of men, but of God:</HI> So may we &s;ay, He is not a Sab|bath-keeper, that keeps it onely out|wardly: but he is a keeper of the Sab|bath, that keeps it inwardly; and that is ob&s;ervation of the Lords day, that is in the heart and in the &s;pirit, who&s;e prai&s;e though it may be not of men, it will be of God. God at the great day will give him prai&s;e in the pre&s;ence of men and Angels. Yea, pre&s;ent prai&s;e will God by his Spicit &s;peak to &s;uch as &s;pi|ritually &s;pend his holy day. And O how &s;weet will it be for God in a Sab|bath to &s;ay to our &s;ouls, Well done, well prayed, well preached, well heard to day my dear &s;ervants. Now that which the Lord thus prai&s;eth, we may be &s;ure much plea&s;eth the Lord.</P>
<P>Yea, to &s;anctifie the Sabbath in a &s;pi|ritual way, the Lord is &s;o plea&s;ed with
<PB N="426" REF="234"> it, that he takes plea&s;ure in it: then the Lords day is the Lords delight. The Sabbath &s;o kept on earth, cau&s;es joy in heaven. <HI>It is meet,</HI> &s;ayes the Father in the fifteenth of <HI>Luke,</HI> to his friends about him. <HI>It is meet we &s;hould rejoyce, for this my &s;on was dead and is alive; was lo&s;t, and is found.</HI> So &s;ayes God, Ble&s;&s;ed for ever, to all in bli&s;&s;e about him, Tis meet we &s;hould rejoyce, for this my Sabbath was dead, and is alive; the glory of it was lo&s;t and gone, but is now return|ed again.</P>
<P N="4">4. The Lands general concernments will through the Sabbaths &s;piritual ob|&s;ervance be much promoted,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both in the Eccle&s;ia&s;tick,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And in the Civil State.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Let the &s;pirit of the Lords day be well up in the Land,
<Q><L>Then will Gods Ordinances remaine that are pre&s;ent,</L>
<L>And God will remaine pre&s;ent with his Ordinances.</L></Q></P>
<P N="1">1. Gods Ordinances with us will abide. What makes God remove pre|cious means from among a people, but their dulne&s;&s;e in his Sabbaths and &s;er|vice, their falling from their fervent
<PB N="427" REF="234"> affections, their leaving their fir&s;t love and life? as we &s;ee in the ca&s;e of that langui&s;hing Church, <HI>Revel.</HI> 2.4, 5. <HI>I have &s;omewhat,</HI> (&s;ayes Chri&s;t) <HI>again&s;t thee, thou ha&s;t left thy fir&s;t love: Remember from whence thou art fallen, and do thy fir&s;t works, or I will come and remove the Candle&s;tick out of his place.</HI> Let Chri&s;ti|ans be carried out with a &s;pirit of love and life in the Sabbaths and &s;ervice of the Lord, and though the Lord may lay &s;ome &s;ad afflictions upon them, yet he will continue the means of Grace a|mong them. And though the Lord give you the bread of adver&s;ity and the water of affliction, yet &s;hall not thy teachers be removed into a corner, but thine eyes &s;hall &s;ee thy teaches, And thine ears &s;hal hear a word behind thee, &s;aying, This is the way walk in it, <HI>E&s;ay</HI> 30.20.</P>
<P N="2">2. God him&s;elf will al&s;o abide with his Ordinances. Let the Sabbath be &s;o &s;piritually &s;anctified,
<Q><L>Then as God will be with the Ordi|nances his people u&s;e,</L>
<L>So God will be with his people in u&s;e of Ordinances.</L></Q></P>
<P>Then may Ordinances &s;ay to Gods
<PB N="428" REF="235"> Saints, and Saints may &s;ay to Ordinan|ces, <HI>[Emmanuel, God with us:]</HI> God with us in &s;ervice and &s;uffering makes all &s;weet. That is a precious promi&s;e, <HI>E&s;ay</HI> 43.1. <HI>When thou art in the water I will be with thee; and when thou art in the fire, I will be with thee.</HI> Water and fire both may referre to afflictions, be they various and violent, God will be with: Yea, in the waters of &s;uffering, and in the fire of &s;ervice God is with us. Or though we cannot &s;ay, God is with us when we are in the water, to wit, when we be cold or lukewarme in his work; Yet we may be &s;ure God is with us, when we are in the fire, to wit, fervent and zealous in the works of his wor|&s;hip.</P>
<Q><L>Is God with us in the fire of heavy afflictions?</L>
<L>And is not God with us in the fire of holy devotions?</L></Q>
<P>And let the Lord thus abroad in the Land, be with his &s;ervice and &s;ervants, and with his &s;ervants in &s;ervice, O what great and good things will follow!</P>
<Q><L>As the clean&s;ing out of pollutions,</L>
<L>And the clo&s;ing up of divi&s;ions.</L></Q>
<P>Pollutions clean&s;ed,] Were the holy
<PB N="429" REF="235"> Spirit thus up in the Nation, the un|clean &s;pirit would be &s;oon forced to pa&s;&s;e out of the Land, <HI>Zach.</HI> 13.2. This would not onely keep informing Ordi|nances that are, but reforming Ordinan|ces that are not would be al&s;o brought in. In our Engli&s;h-hou&s;e we might hope to have the Be&s;ome as well as the Candle, <HI>Luk.</HI> 15.8.</P>
<Q><L>As the Candle of good Doctrine,</L>
<L>So the Be&s;ome of good Di&s;cipline.</L>
<L>The Be&s;ome of Di&s;cipline to &s;weepe out du&s;t,</L>
<L>As well as the Candle of Doctrine to drive out darkne&s;&s;e.</L></Q>
<P>'Tis lamentable to &s;ee how the Lepro|&s;ie hath taken our hou&s;e, <HI>Levit.</HI> 14. And O what an infection hath broke out even in the new building. Infliction of due cen&s;ures, would be a good means to remove the plague-&s;tones out of the wall, and &s;o to heal the hou&s;e, and help its &s;tanding.</P>
<P>Could we but encrea&s;e our Sabbath-zeal, &s;ure Church-Keyes would not lie &s;o ru&s;ty, yea, the civil &s;word would have a &s;harper edge.</P>
<P>When God came down upon <HI>Sinai</HI> in thunder and lightning, fire and much
<PB N="430" REF="236"> &s;moak, God commanded <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> to &s;et bounds about the Mount, that the peo|ple might not pre&s;umptuou&s;ly break in: Thus were there for the Sabbath that fire of zeal that is fits, the Civil Power would &s;et bounds that per&s;ons might not &s;o profanely break out. Tho&s;e in|tolerable tolerations we now &s;ee, would &s;oon cea&s;e. Tho&s;e Anti-Con|gregations that are now, A&s;&s;embly again&s;t A&s;&s;embly in the &s;ame place, at the &s;ame time; It is the cau&s;e of many &s;ad evils. Hence is it that if there be any that will not afford their pre|&s;ence at the publick preaching of the Word: or if there be any that cannot abide the power of the Word publickly preached, there be tho&s;e by, that will invite them from us, and abet them again&s;t us. Hence is it, that the com|mon &s;ort account Sabbath dayes, and duties but as indifferent things, matters they may u&s;e, or omit if they plea&s;e. Hence is it, that the vile&s;t of men have learned to vilifie and bla&s;pheme the wayes which God hath ble&s;&s;ed, to &s;peak evil of the In&s;truments, and Ordinances God hath &s;anctified, and by which God is glorified, and which of God &s;hall one
<PB N="431" REF="236"> day be ju&s;tified, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Did but the &s;pirit of the Lords day rule in the Land, tho&s;e that are oppo&s;ite we &s;hould either re|duce or re&s;train. Tho&s;e gro&s;&s;e abu&s;es and great prophanene&s;&s;e that is grown among&s;t us, would be either redre&s;&s;ed or &s;uppre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>Divi&s;ions clo&s;ed,] If Chri&s;tians on the Sabbath were higher rai&s;ed by a &s;pirit of fervency, they would at other times be better ruled by a &s;pirit of uni|ty. Were there in men more of the &s;pi|rit of life upon the Lords day, there would be more among men of the &s;pirit of love all the week long. Men are not &s;piritual, but carnal which is the cau&s;e divi&s;ions are common. There is a|mong you envying and &s;trife and divi|&s;ions, are ye not carnal and walk as men? For while one &s;aith, I am of <HI>Paul,</HI> and another, I am of <HI>Apollo,</HI> are ye not carnal? 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 3.3, 4. To heal the Land of divi&s;ions will be,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Both the beauty, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;afetie of it.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Beauty,] Rents and divi&s;ions are to a Land as fits of convul&s;ions to a child which draws the mouth awry, and pulls parts out of their place, and cau|&s;es
<PB N="432" REF="237"> all to be uncomely; cure the Con|vul&s;ions, and the beauty of the Babe returns.</P>
<P>Safety,] Rents and divi&s;ions are to a Nation as cracks and clifts in a build|ing, which yet Art may &s;top, and the hou&s;e may be &s;trong, and the dwellings therein may be &s;afe and &s;weet.</P>
<P>Now that which will mo&s;t power|fully repair our breaches is the Spirit of the Lord, which is a Spirit of love, and of a &s;ound mind, 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 1.7.</P>
<Q><L>As it is a &s;pirit of love it unites af|fections, and</L>
<L>As it is the &s;pirit of a &s;ound mind it unites opinions.</L></Q>
<P>And &s;o brings all into one: Nothing can &s;o cau&s;e union of &s;pirits, as the &s;pi|rit of union. Were we more carried out by a &s;pirit of power, we &s;hould be more carried on with a &s;pirit of peace. This &s;pirit would be in us out of Sabbath-&s;ervice, were we in the &s;pirit upon the &s;ervice of the Sabbath; yea, O the abun|dant benefits that would abide our Na|tion upon this &s;piritual being, and being in the Spirit! Then would the works of the Divel be di&s;&s;olved, the darkne&s;&s;e of ignorance di&s;pelled, Errors outed,
<PB N="433" REF="237"> bla&s;phemies bani&s;hed, the Go&s;pel che|ri&s;hed, truth e&s;tabli&s;hed, iniquity would be le&s;&s;e, &amp; the love of many would wax warme, formalities would fall, and the power of Godline&s;&s;e ri&s;e: Mini&s;ters would be vigorous, and Magi&s;trates va|lorous, and Chri&s;tians in Gods cau&s;e Couragious, Inferiours well governed, and Families well ordered, &s;o that Old <HI>England</HI> would become New, and we &s;hould find New <HI>England</HI> in Old: O happy day, O let me be&s;eech all that my weak words may reach, for our &s;ouls &s;akes, for the Sabbaths &s;ake, for the Lords &s;ake, and the Lands &s;ake let us be &s;piritual; &s;piritual in Sabbath-&s;ervice. O let us be like St. <HI>John</HI> in the text upon the Lords day in the Spi|rit.</P>
<Q>I was in the Spirit on the Lods day.</Q>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="13" TYPE="section">
<P>Now that the Lords day may be thus &s;piritually &s;pent, there be duties of three &s;orts to be ob&s;erved,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Anteceden t</ITEM>
<ITEM>Concomitant,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Con&s;equent.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Antecedent duties.] Before the Sabbath comes Chri&s;tians that would well keep the day, are required to be,
<Q><PB N="434" REF="238">
<L>Both valiant in re&s;i&s;ting temptations again&s;t it,</L>
<L>And diligent in making p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eparations for it.</L></Q></P>
<P>Temptations that may turn &s;oul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> a&s;ide from this ob&s;erving the Sabbath, may proceed
<LIST>
<ITEM>From &s;ome more remote, or</ITEM>
<ITEM>From &s;ome more immediate.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>There be &s;ome remote that may &s;ug|ge&s;t what may draw off from the Lords day, and its &s;piritual duties. There be evil &s;pirits now abroad who&s;e bent is, to beat down the day of God, and to beat off from the &s;oul-benefitting duties thereof.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>As the &s;pirit of Athei&s;me,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And the &s;pirit of Sectari&s;me;</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;pirit of prophanene&s;&s;e, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;pirit of &s;eparation.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>The former fight again&s;t the Sabbath day, and its due ob&s;ervers in open field, by profe&s;&s;ed battels.</P>
<P>The latter labour to cut off the Lords day, and all its lovers, by &s;ecret and &s;ubtill Stratagems. Men that &s;e|parate from our &s;ettled Congregations, and run wilde in their opinions. Grant &s;ome of them meet on Sabbath-dayes
<PB N="435" REF="238"> in their religious duties: yet them|&s;elves &s;ay, they do it not out of obedi|ence to any divine Command, or upon the acknowledgement of any Go&s;pel-Canon, binding the con&s;cience more to this then to other dayes. As for many, they pretend to have things &s;o immediate from God, that they are utterly again&s;t the u&s;e of any holy means or times. As <HI>Ehud</HI> told <HI>Eglon</HI> he had a me&s;&s;age from God, and in the mean while thru&s;t him through the belly with a Dagger, <HI>Judg.</HI> 3. Some they &s;ay, they have a me&s;&s;age from God, and that they alone have the mind of Chri&s;t, &amp; in the mean time they &s;trike through Gods holy day, and &s;tab into the very heart of Chri&s;tian Religion. Dear Chri&s;tians, do not hearken to any of the&s;e, but &s;toutly with&s;tand them, as being &s;trongly re&s;olved for the Lords day, and the lively duties thereof.</P>
<P N="2">2. Some immediate that may &s;eek to hinder the holy ob&s;ervation of the Sabbath. As &s;inful relations,] <HI>Deut.</HI> 13.6, 7. <HI>If thy brother, the &s;on of thy Mo|ther, or thy &s;on, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bo&s;ome,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>&s;hall intice thee &s;ecretly, &s;aying, Let us &s;eek another
<PB N="436" REF="239"> God</HI> [let us &s;et our &s;elves Sabbath-free] <HI>thou &s;halt not con&s;ent to him nor hearken to him, thou &s;halt not conceal him,</HI> &amp;c. Yea, perhaps ancient inti|mate acquaintance, &s;uch of whom thou maye&s;t &s;ay, as <HI>David, P&s;al.</HI> 55.14. We took &s;weet coun&s;el together, and walk|ed unto the hou&s;e of God in company, &s;pent many a &s;weet Sabbath together, travelled together many a mile to hear the good Word of God, went home with hearts warmed full of comfortable con|ference by the way, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Now cour&s;e and coun&s;el is quite contrary, all to carry off from Ordinances, and to di&s;|courage care about the Lods day and duties. All &s;uch mu&s;t be &s;tifly with|&s;tood, and you &s;trongly re&s;olved, not to lo&s;e the Lords-day priviledge. When <HI>Ahab</HI> &s;ought to per&s;wade <HI>Na|boths</HI> vineyard from him, 1 <HI>King.</HI> 21. <HI>Naboth</HI> an&s;wers <HI>Ahab,</HI> &s;aying, <HI>The Lord forbid it me, that I &s;hould give away the inheritance of my fathers unto thee:</HI> Thus if you meet any man that would be|reave you of your Sabbath-right: &s;ay, The Lord forbid it me, that I &s;hould give away the &s;acred time of God my Father. If Divel or World, profit or
<PB N="437" REF="239"> plea&s;ure &s;eek to pull a&s;ide: &s;ay, The Lord forbid that I &s;hould &s;o give away the day of my dear Redeemer, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Thus mu&s;t you with courage cru&s;h temptations.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="14" TYPE="section">
<P N="2">2. Care mu&s;t be to make for the day due preparations: In order to the Sab|bath day a double preparation is due,
<LIST>
<ITEM>More general and remote,</ITEM>
<ITEM>More &s;pecial and immediate.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Matters mu&s;t be &s;o ordered every day as to prepare for this day. As our whole life &s;hould be a preparing for death: &s;o the whole week &s;hould be a preparing for the Sabbath. But as this precious day does more approach: &s;o preparative work mu&s;t more increa&s;e. For that more &s;olemn preparation when the Sabbath day draws nigh, ob|&s;erve,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Wherefore it is required, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Wherein it is performed.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Things that do require, and that may encourage Chri&s;tians to a right prepa|ration for the Sabbath day are,
<LIST>
<ITEM>The nece&s;&s;ities of it,</ITEM>
<ITEM>The equities for it, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>The commodities by it.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1 Things nece&s;&s;ary that for this day
<PB N="438" REF="240"> we do prepare are, Becau&s;e
<Q><L>This preparation is a duty of the Lords commanding,</L>
<L>And the Sabbath is the day of the Lords comming.</L></Q></P>
<P N="1">1. Hath not the Lord commanded every man to prepare for the Sabbath, before it comes? <HI>Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy.</HI> Remembring pro|perly is of things ab&s;ent, not pre&s;ent. And words of Remembrance or know|ledge do import both affection and action.</P>
<P>To remember the Sabbath,] 'Tis aforehand to mind and manage matters that concern the Sabbaths &s;anctification; or that when it comes, it may be holily kept. Yea, for every Duty of the Lords day mu&s;t be a due preparance. Yea, take up any holy task at any other time, and for it we ought to prepare. Before we pray we mu&s;t prepare for prayer; and before we hear, prepare for hearing. Prepare for a Sermon, and prepare for a Sacrament. Now if God would have us prepare for &s;ingle Duties, when they lye more a&s;under, &s;ure we &s;hould prepare for the Sabbath when &s;uch duties are laid more together, or as <HI>Jacob</HI> and <HI>E&s;au,</HI>
<PB N="439" REF="240"> one hold the heel of the other. Yea this Day, when we are not onely to be in the Duty, but in the Spirit, in the prompt, and powerful, and preci&s;e tran&s;|action of every &s;ervice, we had need to prepare.</P>
<P N="2">2. Doth not the Lord upon this Day come in comfortable vi&s;its to the &s;oules of his Saints, and mu&s;t not they prepare for his pre&s;ence? When Chri&s;t was to come in the fle&s;h preparation was made: And mu&s;t not we make preparation when Chri&s;t is to come in the Spirit? 'Twas the Opinion of &s;ome of the An|cients,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lactant. <HI>lib.</HI> 7. <HI>ca.</HI> 1. Augu t. <HI>De Temp. Serm.</HI> 154.</NOTE> that Chri&s;ts per&s;onal coming to Judgment will be on the Sabbath Day. Chri&s;ts Spiritual coming in Mercy is to be &s;ure on the Day of the Sabbath. We &s;ee when the Bridegroom was to come, <HI>Matth.</HI> 25. the Virgins (e&s;pecially the wi&s;e) <HI>trimm'd their lamps, and prepared oyl in their ve&s;&s;els.</HI> The Sabbath 'tis the Day when our Bridegroom comes, how ought we to trim our Lamps, and get ready oyl in our ve&s;&s;els? When a Great Man is to come to our hou&s;es, how are all the rooms dre&s;s'd up? When a Great God is to come to our hearts, 'tis ne|ce&s;&s;ary we be well prepared.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="440" REF="241">2. 'Tis Equal and Meet for us to prepare upon the Sabbaths approach, as may appear, if we ob&s;erve the practice of &s;everal:
<LIST>
<ITEM>Some pa&s;t, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>Some pre&s;ent.</ITEM>
</LIST> In time pa&s;t the people of the Jews their practice was to prepare for their Sab|bath, <HI>Luk.</HI> 23.54. <HI>And that day was the preparation, for the Sabbath drew on.</HI> That day they call'd their <HI>[Sabbatulum]</HI> or their little Sabbath, on which they made ready again&s;t the great Day of their Sabbath came. Yea, the Jews in honor of their Sabbath, and that they might the more mind it, and be in the better pre|paredne&s;&s;e for it, they u&s;e [as &s;ome Learned ob&s;erve] to call the whole week a Sabbath;<NOTE PLACE="marg">P. Mart. <HI>in Gen.</HI> 1. Tremel. <HI>in Syriac Pa|raphr. Mat.</HI> 28.1. Theophyl. <HI>Matth.</HI> 28.1.</NOTE> The fir&s;t day of the Sabbath, and the &s;econd day of the Sabbath, and &s;o on. And thus much is clear according to the Greek in &s;everal Texts in the New Te&s;tament, <HI>Luk.</HI> 18.12. &amp; 24.1. And is it not meet then for Chri&s;tians, who&s;e Sabbath exceeds that of the Jews, to prepare them&s;elves thereunto? We are ea&s;ed of the bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e of Sacrifices, have no Sheep and Oxen to prepare; we have the more
<PB N="441" REF="241"> time to make ready hearts and &s;oules for &s;piritual &s;ervice.</P>
<P>Secondly, The practice of &s;everall pre&s;ent makes &s;uch Sabbath-preparation meet, as may appear, if we ponder
<Q><L>Both the good actings of &s;ome,</L>
<L>And the evil of others.</L></Q></P>
<P>For good actings in order to the Sab|bath, Ob&s;erve,
<Q><L>Both the good that God doth in his People,</L>
<L>And the good that others do for the People of God.</L></Q></P>
<P N="1">1. God puts into his people for their good, gracious Habits, Principles of holine&s;&s;e, di&s;po&s;ing them to all parts of his wor&s;hip: yea, the Spirit of holine&s;s to act up tho&s;e principles, that &s;o his peo|ple may be ready pre&s;&s;ed and prepared alway to every good work, much more for the Sabbath in the &s;ervice thereof.</P>
<P N="2">2. Others [as Mini&s;ters] they pre|pare for the Sabbath-good of Gods people. 'Tis fit people &s;hould pre|pare to hear, as they prepare to preach. Gods faithful Mini&s;ters be|fore the Sabbath do not onely prepare matter to &s;peak, but they prepare their hearts to &s;peak the matter. As Cocks
<PB N="442" REF="242"> when they are about to Crow, they lift up them&s;elves, and clap thair wings, they may be well awake: Thus good Mini&s;ters when they are to teach, they rou&s;e up them&s;elves, and &s;trive to rai&s;e up their own hearts, and that Gods Word it may be as a fire in their bones. <HI>Bernard</HI> in a Sermon breaks out thus to the people:<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Bern.</HI> in fe&s;to omni|um &s;anct. Serm. <HI>1.</HI></NOTE> To prepare you meat, my heart all this night hath been &s;eething within me, and in my meditations I have been enflamed as with fire. Is it not meet that people be prepared when pre|chers thus prepare for the people? And as for the evil actings of &s;ome, they are &s;ad. There are &s;uch who on the Sab|bath prepare for their worldly work in the week. <HI>Calvin</HI> complaines of &s;ome Chri&s;tians in his time: <HI>Let us con&s;ider</HI> (&s;ayes he) <HI>whether they which call them|&s;elves Chri&s;tians do any otherwi&s;e regard the Sabath then thereon to attend their worldly affairs;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Calvin. <HI>in Deut.</HI> 8. <HI>Serm.</HI> 34.</NOTE> <HI>they re&s;erve to them&s;elves this day as if they had no other to deliberate for the whole week to come,</HI> &amp;c. Upon the Lords day men cut out their work, and ca&s;t their bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, how to have this and that done upon this and that day. Shall men on the Sabbath prepare for
<PB N="443" REF="242"> the week, and &s;hall not we in the week prepare for the Sabbath? Is Mammon more to be minded then God?</P>
<P N="3">3. The profit that will be to our &s;ouls by &s;uch Sabbath preparance, is precious. By &s;uch a &s;erious preparation our hearts will be well fitted,
<Q><L>Both with abilities to performe Sab|bath-duties,</L>
<L>And with capacities to receive Sab|bath-mercies.</L></Q></P>
<P N="1">1. The duties of the Sabbath will the better and freer come off. We &s;hall then with more dexterity, agility, faci|lity tran&s;act the &s;everal parts of Gods &s;ervice. A cau&s;e why we are &s;o oft upon the Lords day lame in duty, drive heavy, becau&s;e we did not aforehand oyl our wheeles, inure our &s;elves. When <HI>David had put on Sauls Armour, his helmet, &s;word, and coat of Male, he a&s;&s;ayed therein to go and fight with Go|liah, but he is at a &s;tand; &s;aying, I cannot go in the&s;e, for I have not proved them,</HI> 1 Sam. 17.39. Thus a Chri&s;tian when he is to go out in the &s;ervice of the Sab|bath, he is &s;o &s;traitened, &s;tiffe and bound up, he knowes not how to go on in &s;uch duties, becau&s;e he hath not proved
<PB N="444" REF="243"> them, or prepared for them. We &s;hould aforehand put our &s;elves into Sabbath-Armour, and &s;ee how we can go, how we can pray, preach, hear, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> this would much help.</P>
<P N="2">2. The mercies of the Sabbath will the larger and fuller come in. Accor|ding to our preparations, are our after-participations. According to the number and mea&s;ure of &s;acks the &s;ons of <HI>Jacob</HI> prepared and carried with them out of <HI>Canaan,</HI> &s;o were they filled with Corn when they came to <HI>Jo&s;eph</HI> in <HI>Egypt, Gen.</HI> 44.1. According as we prepare our hearts at home in the week-time, &s;o our comfortable fillings be when we come before the Lord on his own day. He that would have from his field a large crop in harve&s;t-time, mu&s;t afore|hand take pains in plowing and well preparing the ground. We do not aforehand take preparative pains, which is the rea&s;on we reap &s;o little in Sab|bath-time.</P>
<P N="2">2. We are to con&s;ider wherein this preparation of our &s;elves for the Sab|bath con&s;i&s;ts. Now this work does com|prize acts of two &s;orts, <HI>viz.</HI>
<Q><PB N="445" REF="243">
<L>Reflect acts on our &s;elves from others, and</L>
<L>Direct acts towatds others beyond our &s;elves.</L></Q></P>
<P N="1">1. Each man among&s;t us mu&s;t act in|ward upon him&s;elf,
<LIST>
<ITEM>In &s;elf-examination,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And &s;elf-humiliation.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>We mu&s;t diligently examine our &s;elves,
<Q><L>What &s;in hath been before the Sab|bath,</L>
<L>And what need we have of the Sab|bath.</L></Q></P>
<P>Sin before mu&s;t be found out, le&s;t we come to Sabbath-day-work, under week-day-guilt. If for week day &s;innes God be again&s;t us when in Sabbath day &s;ervice we &s;eek to be with God, no wonder then if things work cro&s;&s;e. The Mariners in <HI>Jonah</HI> they rowed hard, but the Sea wrought and was tempe&s;tuous again&s;t them, and they could not get the &s;hip to &s;hoare till <HI>Jonah</HI> was found and flung out. Thus in the &s;ervice of the Sabbath we may row hard, yet not get &s;hip to &s;hoare, heart into heaven by rea&s;on of &s;ome &s;in before committed that hath &s;et God again&s;t us. Yea, we
<PB N="446" REF="244"> mu&s;t &s;o &s;et into our &s;elves as to di&s;cern the nece&s;&s;ities that we have of Sabbath-helps,
<Q><L>Becau&s;e of the prevalencies of &s;in,</L>
<L>And the imbecillities of grace.</L></Q></P>
<P>We mu&s;t al&s;o deeply humble our &s;elves, and be low in &s;elf-aba&s;ements. Tho&s;e herbs ri&s;e high in the &s;ummer-time, that in the winter &s;hrink low into the ground: Tho&s;e hearts that in the week-time are laid lowe&s;t, they ri&s;e highe&s;t upon the Sabbath day. Yea, there mu&s;t be &s;uch &s;oul-humblings for &s;in, as there may be &s;in-removings from the &s;oul; el&s;e the day of Gods &s;ervice comes, but we cannot &s;erve God in the day, <HI>Jo&s;hua</HI> 24.19. Thus before the Sab|bath we mu&s;t bethink our &s;elves, com|mune with our heart, and make diligent &s;earch, with penitent &s;orrowes.</P>
<P N="2">2. We mu&s;t act onward towards o|thers, to wit,
<LIST>
<ITEM>God-ward, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>World-ward.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. Towards God, we mu&s;t prepare for the day,
<LIST>
<ITEM>By con&s;ideration of him, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>By &s;upplication to him.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. God mu&s;t be &s;eriou&s;ly thought
<PB N="447" REF="244"> upon. Out of de&s;ires to the God of the Day, we &s;hould long for the Day of God, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 42.1, 2. <HI>My &s;oul thir&s;teth for the living God, O when &s;hall I come and appear before God?</HI> As &s;he &s;aid, <HI>Judg.</HI> 5. <HI>Why is the chariot &s;o long in coming? and why tarrie the whe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">les of the chariot?</HI> So let each &s;oul &s;ay, Why is the Sabbath &s;o long in coming, &amp;c? <HI>Amos</HI> 8. &s;ome &s;ay, <HI>When will the Sabbath be gone, that we may &s;ell corn?</HI> Let us &s;ay, O when will the Sabbath be come, that we may &s;ell all, and buy that Pearl? When will the Sabbath be come? Not that we may &s;ell, but onely that we may <HI>buy</HI> of God <HI>wine and milk without money,</HI> E&s;ay 55.1. That we may buy of Chri&s;t <HI>eye-&s;alve, white rayment, and tryed gold,</HI> Rev. 3.18. O when will the Day come that we may have communion with God, Father, Son, and Holy Gho&s;t! As that Martyr with a leap &s;aid when he was going to the &s;take, <HI>There is but one &s;tile more, and I am at my Fathers Hou&s;e.</HI> A good man on Saturday-evening going to bed, leaps, &s;aying, 'Tis but one Night more, and I &s;hall be in the Hou&s;e of God upon his Holy Day: Meet God him&s;elf in the u&s;e of Holy Things.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="448" REF="245">2. God mu&s;t be &s;eriou&s;ly &s;ought unto. Prayer in this preparative work hath a Principal Task. Our Prayer &s;hould precede the Sabbath,
<Q><L>In Sunder,</L>
<L>If not Together.</L></Q></P>
<P>It hath been the manner of &s;ome, the day before the Sabbath, to meet and &s;pend &s;ome time in &s;eeking God by Prayer; and quickening one another. This fervently perform'd, would lay a great Ground of a <HI>GOOD DAY</HI> in|deed to follow. <HI>Melancthon</HI> who lived with <HI>Luther</HI> in lamentable times, though his heart was ordinarily oppre&s;&s;ed with fears, yet finding on a time a company of good Chri&s;tians together praying: <HI>Now</HI> (&s;ayes he) <HI>there be &s;ome good dayes coming.</HI> Say dayes be evil, yet how would this rai&s;e hopes in hearts that there be many good dayes coming, if the Lords Day, this good Day were by a holy prayer duly prepar'd for! Indeed for want of prayer-preparation Gods good Day may be as to us an evil Day. But upon due preparing Prayer we may &s;afely &s;ay of an approaching Sab|bath, Behold, even as to us there is a Good Day coming! O pray, pray,
<PB N="449" REF="245"> pray before-hand, pray that Ordinances may be accompanied, In&s;truments en|couraged; pray that there may be di&s;|chargings of &s;ins, enlarging of &s;oules: Seek to &s;et our hearts well upon the wheeles. Pray that we may be upon the wing in the work. <HI>Pray</HI> (&s;ayes our Saviour) <HI>that your Flight be n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t on the Sabbath day,</HI> Matth. 24. But thus pray that your Flight may be on the Sabbath day, to wit, from earth to Heaven, hold|ing a holy conver&s;e with God.</P>
<P N="2">2. Towards the world; what we are to do in this due preparing for the Lords Day, is
<Q><L>Seque&s;tration from the Matters of the World,</L>
<L>And Reconciliation with Men, in the World.</L></Q></P>
<P N="1">1. We mu&s;t make off from worldly Hinderances. As Mariners that intend a Voyage to Sea, they put the Ship off from the Land; &s;o if we mean to &s;erve God on the Sabbath, our hearts and minds mu&s;t be put off from the world. <HI>Put off thy &s;hoes,</HI> (&s;ayes God to <HI>Mo&s;es) for the place whereon thou &s;tande&s;t is holy ground,</HI> Exod. 3.5. We mu&s;t put off earthly affections, for the Sabbath we
<PB N="450" REF="246"> are to ob&s;erve is a Holy Day. The af|faires and cares of the world we mu&s;t ca&s;t off, for 'tis not fit with them to come before the Lord in the Day of the Sabbath. <HI>Joh.</HI> 5.10. the Jewes &s;aid un|to the man whom Chri&s;t had cured, <HI>It is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed, be|cau&s;e it is the Sabbath day.</HI> Upon the day of the Sabbath it is not lawfull for to carry about us our worldly minds and matters. Therefore from the&s;e we mu&s;t get free before. <HI>A bird</HI> (&s;ayes a learned Writer) <HI>that &s;he may fly,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mu&s;culus,</HI> loc. comm. praecept. <HI>4.</HI></NOTE> <HI>&s;he flutters with her wings, and frees her &s;elf all &s;he can from what may hinder her flight.</HI> And &s;hall not we when we are to come to Gods &s;ervice on the Sab|bath, labour aforehand to deliver our &s;elves from all earthly lets, who are in our &s;pirits upon the Lords day to be lif|ted much higher (&s;ayes he) then birds can fly? It was <HI>Nehemiahs</HI> care when the Sabbath came on, to have the Gates of the City &s;hut up, that not any might enter in with their burdens. It ought to be our cour&s;e to &s;hut up the Gates of our &s;ouls, when the Sabbath is at hand, that no burden&s;ome cares may come in. That Chri&s;t might make us a Sabbath to
<PB N="451" REF="246"> keep, in body he fir&s;t ro&s;e from the earth: In heart we mu&s;t ri&s;e from the earth before ever we can well keep the Sabbath Chri&s;t hath made.</P>
<P N="2">2. We mu&s;t make up earthly differ|ences before the Lords day comes. While we are at a &s;inful di&s;tance with men, we &s;hall hardly make any good Sabbath approach to God. Some they come to Sabbath-day-&s;ervice, in week|day-malice: So that on the Sabbath thougb their bodies be together, their hearts are a&s;under. <HI>When you come to|gether in one place,</HI> (&s;ayes the Apo&s;tle) <HI>I hear there be divi&s;ions among you. This is not to eat the Lords Supper,</HI> 1 Go<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 11. Though on the Sabbath we meet in one publick place, yet if we have our pri|vate grudges among&s;t us, and unrecon|ciled di&s;&s;en&s;ions betwixt us, this is not to keep the Lords Sabbath. <HI>If thou bring thy gift&punc; to the Altar, and remember thy brother hath ought again&s;t thee, leave thy gift, and go fir&s;t, and be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy &s;acri|fice,</HI> Matth. 5.23. If men unreconciled were unmeet for a legal &s;acrifice, how unmeet then are unreconciled Chri&s;tians for a Go&s;pel-Sabbath? It &s;ets us off
<PB N="452" REF="247"> from God, and gives way to the Divel to end a day in &s;trife and wrath, but in an angry ca&s;e to end a week is wor&s;e; then to let the Sun go down upon our wrath, gives place to the Divel again&s;t the next day, <HI>Ephe&s;</HI> 4.27. There is no Sabbath-duty, but &s;trife and wrath renders us unfit for; unfit to hear, un|fit to pray. <HI>I will</HI> (&s;ayes the Apo&s;tle) <HI>that men pray, lifting up pure hands without wrath,</HI> 1 Tim. 2.8. They that will be &s;wi&s;t to hear, mu&s;t be &s;low to wrath, <HI>Jam.</HI> 1.19. O then e&s;pecially when the Lords day approaches, we &s;hould put away all bitterne&s;&s;e, wrath, and anger, and evil &s;peaking, and kindly clo&s;e one with another. Did we thus at the end of every week make up breaches, di|&s;tances would not grow &s;o great, and Lords dayes would be better &s;pent.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="15" TYPE="section">
<P>Thus much for Antecedaneous duties to the day of the Sabbath. Let us now con&s;ider the dayes Concomitant duties, The&s;e referre,
<LIST>
<ITEM>To the entrance,</ITEM>
<ITEM>The progre&s;&s;e, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>To the end of the day.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. For the right entring of the Lords day, our duty is,
<LIST>
<PB N="453" REF="247">
<ITEM>That our bodies be early up, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>That our hearts be largely ope.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Bodies up early.] A great ground of our Chri&s;tian Sabbath is Chri&s;t his Re|&s;urrection upon this day. Now Chri&s;t he ro&s;e early in the morning. <HI>Before the ri&s;ing of the Sun our Saviour was ri&s;en,</HI> Matth. 28.1. Mark 16.1. It is the judg|ment of Orthodox Authors that our Sabbath day begins in the morning, when Chri&s;t ro&s;e Shall a Chri&s;t be quick to get out of his grave? and &s;hall a Chri&s;tian be &s;low to get out of his bed? Shall the Lord make ha&s;te to begin the day? [even &s;oon after mid|night &s;ay &s;ome] And &s;hall we make no ha&s;te when the day is begun? When our Saviour &s;aw <HI>Zaccheus</HI> in the Syco|more-tree, he &s;aid to him, <HI>Make ha&s;te, and come down, fot this day I mu&s;t abide at thy hou&s;e; &amp; O the ha&s;te that he then made to get down, &amp;c.</HI> Luk. 19.5, 6. A Chri|&s;tian in the morning as he lies in his bed, &s;hould think as if the Lord looked down from heaven, &s;aying, Make ha&s;te and get up; for this day I mu&s;t abide in thine heart, and this day thou mu&s;t meet me in mine hou&s;e. When <HI>Abraham</HI> was to offer his &s;on in &s;acrifice to God: <HI>He
<PB N="454" REF="248"> ro&s;e early in the morning, and &s;adled his A&s;&s;e, and took two of his &s;ervants, and I&s;aac his &s;on, with wood cleaved for a burnt-offering, and went to the place of which the Lord had told him,</HI> Gen. 22.5, 6. And &s;hall not we on the Sabbath morning be early up our &s;elves, and our famlies, to go to the place the Lord hath ap|pointed, and to offer our bodies and &s;ouls in &s;ervice to God? The <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> who lay in &s;iege again&s;t <HI>Jericho,</HI> upon the &s;eventh day they being to compa&s;&s;e the City &s;even times, the text &s;ayes, <HI>And it came to pa&s;&s;e on the &s;eventh day, that they ro&s;e up early, about the dawning of the day, and they compa&s;&s;ed the City after the &s;ame manner &s;even times,</HI> Jo&s;hua 6.15. Upon the Sabbath day we are to compa&s;&s;e the City of God &s;even times, to encompa&s;&s;e heaven with multiplied prayers: and thetefore we &s;tould be ear|ly up.</P>
<P>To helps hereunto, let us take, to wit,
<Q><L>A timely going to re&s;t the night be|fore, and</L>
<L>An entire love to the work of the day that followes.</L></Q></P>
<P>'Tis too common a fault even with &s;ome profe&s;&s;ing Chri&s;tians, they clog
<PB N="455" REF="248"> the night before the Sabbath with a multitude of worldly bu&s;ine&s;&s;es, which brings them to &s;it up late. [A Sabbath let;] And a certain fault.] Hence in the morning when they &s;hould be up with God, they lie &s;leep-bound in their bed.</P>
<P>And (alas!) we have too little love to the Lords-day-work, and &s;o but little li&s;t to be at the work of the day. Were there love to it, we &s;hould long to be at it. Our minds would be upon it in the night, and we &s;hould catch the fir&s;t hour of the day. <HI>With my &s;oul have I de&s;ired thee in the night, and with my &s;pirit within me will I &s;eek thee early,</HI> &s;ayes the Prophet to God, <HI>E&s;ay</HI> 26.9.</P>
<P>Hearts open largely.] The door of the heart upon the entrance of the Sab|bath mu&s;t be &s;et wide, &s;hut to the world, but open to God. <HI>Ezek.</HI> 46.1. <HI>Thus &s;aith the Lord God, The gate of the inner Court that looketh toward the Ea&s;t, though &s;hut all the &s;ix working dayes, yet &s;hall be opened as &s;oon as the Sabbath comes:</HI> Thus the gate of the heart, that is, the inward Court, however kept &s;hut all the week, yet as &s;oon as the Lords day is come, it ought to be opened: to wit,
<Q><PB N="456" REF="249">
<L>In delights at the day of the Lord, and</L>
<L>In de&s;ires to the Lord of the day.</L></Q></P>
<P>Delights at the day &s;hould enlarge the heart: joy to &s;ee a Sabbath ap|pear. <HI>A learned Author reports, that near the Pole where the nights endure divers Moneths, the inhabitants in the end of &s;uch a night, when the Sun begins to be &s;een, they deck them&s;elves in their be&s;t apparel, and get up to the highe&s;t mountains, with joy, &s;aying. Behold, the Sun, the Sun appear|eth: The day, the day is come.</HI> Were we for &s;everal moneths kept without a Sabbath; how would our &s;pirits &s;pring at &s;uch a dayes appearance! Why &s;hould the commonne&s;&s;e of the Suns &s;hining, and the Sabbaths comming dimini&s;h the mercie? How &s;hould we every Lords-day-morning have our minds mounting, and &s;ay, Behold, the Sabbath of the Lord: It is come, it is come: De&s;ires to the Lord our hearts &s;hould be enlarged in. The day being begun, we &s;hould begin to pour out our hearts and breath out our reque&s;ts to God in prayer, that he would pro&s;per us with his pre&s;ence; O how well will it be, if God &s;hall &s;ay, Go and pro&s;per pray and
<PB N="457" REF="249"> pro&s;per, preach and pro&s;per, hear this day and pro&s;per: Fear not, for I am with thee, I will help thee, I will up|hold thee, I will &s;trehgthen thee. Thus in the morning we &s;hall have encoura|ging mercies, if we take care to perform our morning duties. <HI>Mo&s;es, Exod.</HI> 34.4. <HI>ro&s;e up early in the morning, and pre|&s;ented him&s;elf before God in the top of mount</HI> Sinai, <HI>with two tables of &s;tone ready hewed in his hand, for the finger of God to write what he would:</HI> Thus a Chri&s;tian on the Lords-day-morning &s;hould pre&s;ent him|&s;elf before God upon the mount of me|ditation and prayer with a heart ready for what God will that day write there|upon; waxy and willing to take what|ever impre&s;&s;ion God plea&s;e to &s;tamp therein: Not any of us are then to be content to have a heart &s;tiffe and &s;traight, hard and dead. <HI>The true Mo|ther,</HI> 1 King. 3. <HI>was filled with trouble, when in the morning &s;he found a dead child by her:</HI> 'Tis the trouble of a true Chri|&s;tian, when on a Sabbath day-morning he finds a dead heart in him, a heart that's hard, cold and clo&s;ed up. His la|bour is to begin with a heart lowly and lively, to feel tho&s;e quickenings, and
<PB N="458" REF="250"> kindlings of heart, as may encourage to the day, in all the duties thereof.</P>
<P N="2">2. For the progre&s;&s;e and principal part of the Lords day our duties are con&s;iderable,
<LIST>
<ITEM>In their varieties for matter,</ITEM>
<ITEM>And in our properties for manner.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>For matter, the varieties of duties on the Lords day required, have been al|ready declared.</P>
<P>For manner, in performing the Lords day-duties, we in our properties mu&s;t be
<LIST>
<ITEM>Knowing,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Willing,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Unite,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fervent,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cheerfull,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Watchfull.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Knowing.] Knowledge it mu&s;t be the Guide, U&s;her, Pilote and promp|tor of practice. In my&s;teries of faith we may as a blind man [&s;ometimes] not &s;ee our way: But in matters to obedi|ence we mu&s;t not go blind-fold, but the eye of under&s;tanding mu&s;t &s;ee how we ought to go, and what we ought to do. So in Sabbath-work we mu&s;t know how to manage the matter of God, and
<PB N="459" REF="250"> actions of Godline&s;&s;e. We mu&s;t know how to order and time our duties, that each act may go out in its place. Igno|rant people in the publick Congregati|on will be reading, when they &s;hould be praying; and praying, when they &s;hould be hearing, &amp;c. <HI>Every work</HI> (&s;ayes <HI>Solomon) is beautiful in its &s;ea&s;on.</HI> We mu&s;t know how to &s;ea&s;on and proportion our duties: not greaten one to &s;traiten another. Like one that Artificially drawes out the picture of a man, as he &s;ets every part in its place, &s;o he gives every part its due propor|tion which is the beauty of the body: So it is the beauty of the whole body of Sabbath-day-duty, when every mem|ber hath its mea&s;ure, every act is in order, and the whole bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of Reli|gion hath its due proportion. We mu&s;t al&s;o know whereat to aime, and how to eye God; whence to fetch &s;trength, and how to go &s;traight; wherein lies our wants, and where our &s;upplies, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Willing.] <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 100.3. <HI>Thy people &s;hall be a willing people in the day of thy power:</HI> [or a people of willingne&s;&s;es in the plural;] To &s;hew how exceeding willing-hearted the Lords people &s;hould
<PB N="460" REF="251"> be in the day of the Lords power. The day wherein the Lord powerfully con|verts men, and that day wherein men by a &s;pirit of power are converted to the Lord: a day of Grace: a Go&s;pel-day. Indeed the day of the Sabbath is a day of the Lords power, wherein all the Lords people &s;hould be mo&s;t wil|ling in the work of the Lord.</P>
<Q><L>In what we can do we are willing, and</L>
<L>What we cannot do we are willing to.</L></Q>
<P>On the Lords day we would do more good, and more for God if we could. 'Tis a complaint that on the Sabbath a gracious &s;oul &s;ighs up into heaven: Lord, I would better break out, but my &s;ins be&s;et me: I would fa&s;ter run on, but my own heart hampers me: Lord, I would otherwi&s;e &s;erve thee, but my thoughs hinder me: fears and cares encompa&s;&s;e me: help, Lord.</P>
<P>Unite.] Not onely the will, but the whole &s;oul; y<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">, the whole man, and the whole might is knit and bound up for God in every good work, body and &s;oul mu&s;t not lie &s;evered, nor any heart in it &s;elf &s;cattered. 'Twas a &s;ad &s;in in
<PB N="461" REF="251"> him, who upon the Sabbath-day gather|ed up &s;ticks that lay &s;cattered on the ground, <HI>Num.</HI> 15.32. But it is our du|ty on the day of the Sabbath to gather up together our hearts and thoughts that are &s;cattered upon the earth, and wandring about in the world. We &s;hould &s;ay, as the Prophet, <HI>Ble&s;&s;e the Lord O my &s;oul, and all that is within me.</HI> O my &s;oul, and all that is within me, pray: O my &s;oul and all that is within me hearken, <HI>&amp;c. &V;nite my heart,</HI> (&s;ayes <HI>David) that I may fear thy Name.</HI> So let each &s;oul &s;ay, Lord, unite my heart, that I may hear thy Word. Unite my heart, that I may hold fa&s;t thy truth, keep ho|ly thy day.</P>
<P>Fervent.] The zeal of Gods hou&s;e, and zeal of the Lords day &s;hould even eat us up. Our hearts &s;hould burn with|in us like fire. See what God by <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> &s;ayes to the Jewes, <HI>Exod.</HI> 35.3. <HI>Ye &s;hall kindle no fire throughout your hou&s;es upon the Sabbath-day.</HI> But upon the day of the Sabbath our duty is to kindle a fire throughout all our hearts. The fire of zeal fits the &s;ervice of God. On the Sabbath we &s;hould go up to God in a Chariot of this fire. The force of this
<PB N="462" REF="252"> fire would carry us into the highe&s;t heaven from the lowe&s;t earth. And from earth to heaven is a good Sabbath-dayes-journey. Yea, &s;uch a burning fire of zeal on the Sabbath would bring heaven (as it were) down to the earth, God into our hearts. <HI>Exod.</HI> 3. we read how the pre&s;ence of God appear|ed in a burning Bu&s;h In burning hearts, in burning prayers appears much of the pre&s;ence of God. 'Twas the prai&s;e of holy <HI>Hezekiah,</HI> he appointed burnt-of|ferings for the Sabbath dayes, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 31.3. Burning &s;acrifices for ble&s;&s;ed Sabbaths.</P>
<P>Cheerfull.] Several of the Ancients much in&s;i&s;t upon that care and cour&s;e which becomes Chri&s;tians in carrying on the Sabbath more &s;trictly then the Jewes were wont.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Augu&s;t. <HI>Enar. in P&s;al.</HI> 32. <HI>Tom.</HI> 8. <HI>part.</HI> Pag. 242. Aug. <HI>Tract.</HI> 3. <HI>in Joan.</HI> 1. <HI>Tom.</HI> 9. Ignat. <HI>E|pi&s;t. ad</HI> Magne&s;. Pag. 57. Hilar. <HI>pro|log. in P&s;al. oper.</HI> p. 335.</NOTE> Whereas they kept the Sabbath carnally in fea&s;ting, dan|cing, and &s;en&s;ual delights. We Chri&s;ti|ans mu&s;t Sabbatize or keep the Sabbath &s;piritually, in holy joyes, heavenly con|tents, and religious delights; we mu&s;t fea&s;t and dance too: but our fea&s;ting mu&s;t be conver&s;ing with God: <HI>our meat and drink to do the will of God:</HI> Our dancing mu&s;t be, the leaping of &s;oul to
<PB N="463" REF="252"> &s;ee the face of the Lord in the gla&s;&s;e of the Go&s;pel. And though on the Lords day we be not drunk with wine wherein is exce&s;&s;e, yet we mu&s;t be filled with the Spirit. The comforts of the Spirit are &s;weeter and better then all the wine in the world, and of this we &s;hould take our Lords day draughts, <HI>Cant.</HI> 5.3. On this day we &s;hould drink wine with our milk, eat our hony-comb with our hony, be in the Garden and gather Myrrhe with our Spice. <HI>This is the day that the Lord hath made, we will rejoyce&punc; and be glad therein,</HI> P&s;al. 118.24. P&s;al. 42. &s;ayes <HI>David, Why art thou ca&s;t down, O my &s;oul, why art thou di&s;quieted within me?</HI> Him|&s;elf gives the cau&s;e: His bani&s;hment, that he could not now go with the mul|titude to the hou&s;e of God, with the voyce of joy and prai&s;e among them that keep holy day. Such as can come to God's hou&s;e upon his holy day, &s;hould not come with dejected &s;ouls, but with the voyce of joy and prai&s;e, triumphing in God,</P>
<P>Watchful.] For our Sabbath day watch, ob&s;erve
<LIST>
<ITEM>What we are to watch again&s;t, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>What we are to watch for.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1"><PB N="464" REF="253">1. Again&s;t the incur&s;ions of the Divel we are to watch all the Lords day long.</P>
<P>That God, who will, <HI>Revel.</HI> 20. bind up Satan for a thou&s;and years, can ea&s;ily bind him for Sabbath-dayes. But yet even upon &s;uch dayes Satan is much let loo&s;e, <HI>Job.</HI> 1.6. <HI>There was a day when the Sons of God came to pre&s;ent them&s;elves before the Lord, and Satan came al&s;o among them.</HI> The Sons of God on that day came before God for good, but Satan had ill de&s;igns to hinder them that would honour God. <HI>VVhen</HI> Jo&s;hua <HI>the high Prie&s;t &s;tood before the An|gel of the Lord, Satan &s;tood at his right hand to re&s;i&s;t him,</HI> Zech. 3.2. 'Twas the policy of <HI>Pompey, Ve&s;pa&s;ian, Titus</HI> and other enemies of the Jewes &s;orelie&s;t to a&s;&s;ault the City <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> on the Sab|bath dayes, when they refu&s;ed to defend them&s;elves. Upon Sabbath dayes are the Divels mo&s;t de&s;perate de&s;igns. He is ever bad, but wor&s;t upon the be&s;t dayes. O watch, watch: A harming Divel on a helping day.</P>
<P N="2">2. For the incommings of the Spirit of Chri&s;t, let us watch upon the Lords day. As <HI>when the Dove &s;ate upon the
<PB N="465" REF="253"> Ark,</HI> Noah <HI>put forth his hand &amp; took her in:</HI> When the Spirit of the Lord begins to light upon our hearts, we &s;hould pre&s;ent|ly hand it in. Embrace his fir&s;t motions, open and give him entrance: other|wi&s;e Ordinances will do us little good. <HI>Gen.</HI> 1. We find a dark lump of earth and water, but if the Spirit of the Lord had not moved upon the face of the water the world had never been made, nor living creatures brought forth: 'Tis the Spirit upon the Word that cau&s;es a new creation, living Chri|&s;tians. O then when we are under the Word, and in the mid&s;t of the waters of Ordinances, waite and watch for the good Spirit of God. Other birds drive away, but bid the Dove wel|come.</P>
<P N="3">3. At the end of the Lords day let us &s;ee to our duty: le&s;t we begin in the Spitit, and end in the fle&s;h. <HI>Nebuchad|nezzars</HI> Image, the head and upper part was gold, but the feet and lower part Iron and Clay: In the morning and beginning of the Lords day our hearts have heavenly heat, and at evening, the end of the Sabbath, all is Iron and
<PB N="466" REF="254"> Clay. Hearts hard and cold: 'tis ill when a Chri&s;tians affections are as the gra&s;&s;e the Prophet &s;peaks of, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 90.6. <HI>In the morning it flouri&s;heth, and in the evening it is cut down, dryed up and wither|ed. Plutarch</HI> reports of a River that run|neth &s;weet in the morning, but bitter in the evening. 'Tis the property of &s;ome &s;inful men if they have done &s;omewhat on the Sabbath in the &s;ervice of God, they are the more bold to &s;in even before the day is gone; like the Har|lot, <HI>Prov.</HI> 7.14, 18. <HI>I have peace-offerings with me, this day I have payed my vowes, come let us take our fill of love till the morning.</HI> That very day &s;he had been at &s;actifice, &s;he pre&s;umes &s;ordidly to &s;in. But 'tis the property of per&s;ons truly pious, whatever good they have done upon the Lords day, they labout to compleat the &s;ervice, will not neg|lect their evening-&s;acrifice, in private prayer, meditation, conference, care of their families, keeping up their kindled affections, lea&s;t in the cool of the even|ing, they lo&s;e the heat of the day. Or le&s;t by neglect of the evening they lo&s;e any part of the day. Gods &s;in|cere
<PB N="467" REF="254"> &s;ervants they keep the Sabbath as Souldiers keep a City, they look with care to every Gate and part thereof. And &s;uch care becomes Chri&s;tians Sab|bath-ward, not to watch one Gate, and leave another open: to work one part, and be the other idle. To be quick and lively at fir&s;t, and to &s;tagger and grow &s;luggi&s;h at la&s;t.</P>
<P>Yea, &s;ome experienced Chri&s;tians can &s;ay, that upon their continued care throughout the Sabbath, though their hearts in the former part of the day have been down, dull and dead, yet to|wards the latter end the Lord hath come with large enlivenings of &s;oul. As the poor <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> weary in travel, and fainting for food, ready all day long to peri&s;h with hunger: <HI>At even there went forth a wind from the Lord that br<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ught &s;o many Quailes from the Sea, as came and covered the Camp.</HI> O the quickening comforts that God in great abundance hath brought in upon the evening of a Sabbath to the &s;ouls of his Saints, who before in the day were ready to &s;ink with &s;adne&s;&s;e and deadne&s;&s;e. Of this day to &s;ome we may &s;ay as the Prophet
<PB N="468" REF="255"> of another day, <HI>Zech.</HI> 14.6, 7. <HI>It &s;hall come to pa&s;&s;e in that day, that the light &s;hall not be clear nor dark, but it &s;hall come to pa&s;&s;e that at evening-time it &s;hall be light, and living waters &s;hall go out.</HI> Chri&s;tians &s;hould never be &s;atisfied to end the Sabbath-day in the dark, and in a drought without &s;ome &s;weet ref<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;hings from God.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="16" TYPE="section">
<P>La&s;tly, for &s;ub&s;equent duties when the day is done and gone; they come forth upon a double ca&s;e,
<Q><L>In ca&s;e it hath not been well with us,</L>
<L>In ca&s;e with us it hath been well.</L></Q></P>
<P>If we have been dull in our dutie, and met with little of mercy, then our en|deavours &s;hould be
<LIST>
<ITEM>To enquire the cau&s;e, and</ITEM>
<ITEM>To lament the lo&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. We &s;hould reflect to find out the cau&s;e of our heartle&s;&s;e, and fruitle&s;&s;e, pa&s;&s;ing Gods precious day; What way layd our work, what kept God and our &s;ouls a&s;under all the day long, When the <HI>Egyptians</HI> were pur&s;uing the <HI>I&s;raelites,</HI> God &s;et a cloud betwixt them, that darkned the camp of the <HI>Egyptians</HI>
<PB N="469" REF="255"> &s;o that they and the camp of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> came not near one another all the night, <HI>Exod.</HI> 14.20. What hath cau&s;ed a dark cloud betwixt us and God, &s;o that we have not come near one another all the day, Enquire this.</P>
<P N="2">2. We mu&s;t &s;adly bewaile the lo&s;&s;e of a Sabbath. 'Twas the rxpre&s;&s;ion once of a great man, when a day was gone, and he had not done that good he was wont, he brake out to &s;ome about him: O my friends, I have lo&s;t a day: The lo&s;&s;e of any day is matter of mourning; but to lo&s;e the Lords day, and the Lord in the day, may cau&s;e a loud cry. When <HI>Eli&s;ha</HI> was going with <HI>Elijah,</HI> and a Chariot of fire came and parted them a&s;under, carrying <HI>Ei|jah</HI> to heaven, and leaving <HI>Eli&s;ha</HI> on the earth, he looked up and cryed, My Father, my Father, 2 <HI>King.</HI> 2. Hath God and thee O Chri&s;tian, been parted a&s;under upon the Sabbath, and hath the Lord left thy heart upon the earth, and gone him&s;elf up into heaven: O think &s;o upon this, as to cry, My Father, my Father. Repent for the lo&s;&s;e of the Lords day, and lament after the Lord
<PB N="470" REF="256"> that on his day thou ha&s;t lo&s;t.</P>
<P>If on the Lords day we have been fired in duty, and filled with mercy, and found much of God both in mercy, and duty; In that ca&s;e the things of us re|quired are,
<LIST>
<ITEM>To be thankfull,</ITEM>
<ITEM>To be carefull,</ITEM>
<ITEM>To be faithfull,</ITEM>
<ITEM>To be fruitful.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="1">1. For to be thankful all have much cau&s;e: Yet &s;ome have more cau&s;e to be thankful.</P>
<P>For the &s;pace of the Sabbath, and the u&s;e of Ordinances, all ought to be thankful to God. Had not our good God prevented evil de&s;igns we had had no Sabbaths. And had not God pre&s;erved us a Sabbath, we had been like the places of Papi&s;ts and Pagans. <HI>Except the Lord of Ho&s;ts had left us a Sahhath, we had been as Sodome, and had been like unto Gomorrah,</HI> Rom. 9.29. The Lord hath &s;hewed him&s;elf loath to leave us, yea, expre&s;&s;ed his love to our Land in the lengthened liberties of Sabbaths. The Sabbath in the fir&s;t ap|pointment was a pledge of large love:
<PB N="471" REF="256"> but in the perpetuall pre&s;erving the Sabbath, the pledge of Gods love is larger. He is worthy (&s;ay the Jewes of the Centurion to Chri&s;t) for whom thou &s;hould do this; for he hath loved our Nation, and built us a Synagogue, <HI>Luk.</HI> 7.5. The Lord is worthy of this prai&s;e for he hath loved our Nation, and kept us a Sabbath. The Prophet reproves the &s;in of &s;ome, who &s;ay not in their hearts, <HI>Let us now fear the Lord our God that giveth both the former and the latter rain in his &s;ea&s;on, and re&s;erveth the ap|pointed weeks of the harve&s;t,</HI> Jer. 5.24. O the &s;in of &s;uch who &s;ay not in their hearts, Let us fear, love, laud the Lord who re&s;erveth to us the appointed dayes of the Sabbath, which is a greater mercy then to re&s;erve for us the appointed weeks of the harve&s;t.</P>
<P>But how much more thankfull ought &s;ome of us to be to our good God, who giveth us not onely the &s;pace, but the grace of the Sabbath; not onely the u&s;e, but the juyce of Ordinances? when Sabbaths, Sermons, Sacraments, are to &s;everal, but &s;aple&s;&s;e things. When the the Lord giveth us with his holy Sab|bath,
<PB N="472" REF="257"> his holy Spirit. <HI>Nehem.</HI> 9.14, 20. <HI>Thou, O Lord, commanded&s;t thy people pre|cepts, and &s;tatutes by the hand of</HI> Mo&s;es <HI>thy &s;ervant, and made&s;t known unto them thy holy Sabbath: And thou gave&s;t them al&s;o thy good Spirit to in&s;truct them, and withhelde&s;t not Manna from their mouths, but gave&s;t them water for their thir&s;t.</HI> What cau&s;e had they? Such cau&s;e have we to be thankfull, to whom the Lord with a Sabbath of mercy, gives the mer|cies of the Sabbath. A comfortable day, and the comforts of the day. O let the Lord have the high and heated prai&s;es of our hearts in heavenly <HI>Hallelu|jahs.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Let us be very careful to keep off from &s;in and Satan. Satan after the be&s;t &s;pent Sabbaths hath oft the wor&s;t a&s;&s;aults. 'Twas the expre&s;&s;ion of an experienced precious man: I look for the Divel every munday-morning; I am &s;ure then he will come to rob my &s;oul of Sabbath-good, if po&s;&s;ible. I read of a great Captain, who being very &s;ad the day after a mighty victory, one enquired the cau&s;e, who an&s;wered, Ye&s;terday my heart was too much lift|ed
<PB N="473" REF="257"> up, I had need lye low to day. Have any of our hearts been rai&s;ed and ra|vi&s;hed, enlivened and enlarged upon the Lords day; we had need look to it on the following day, and keep our &s;elves lowly, le&s;t that mind which hath been one day heavenly, be the next day haughty. Pride is a worme apt to breed within the be&s;t wood. Be|ware, beware.</P>
<P N="3">3. Let us be faithful to keep up the good we have got: we are apt to catch cold after the greate&s;t heats: And after &s;ome clo&s;e attendance in Gods &s;ervice to grow more loo&s;e and remi&s;&s;e in du|ty. Let us look to our &s;elves we do not lo&s;e the things we have wrought, we do not break the bounds we have &s;et, or &s;lack the holy bonds wherewith we have been begirt. To be unloo&s;ened on the Sabbath from week-day bonds is comfortable: but in the week-time to unloo&s;e the Lords-day bonds is abomi|nable.</P>
<P N="4">4. Let us be fruitful to bring forth more good for God, both in our gene|ral and particular callings. That our week day carriage may be the &s;pringing
<PB N="474" REF="258"> up of Sabbath-day &s;eed: yea, our whole lives mu&s;t be a walking in Sabbath-day &s;trength.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tertul.</HI> C. Jud. <HI>4. Origen.</HI> in Numb. Hom. <HI>23.</HI> cont. <HI>Cel&s;.</HI> lib. <HI>8.</HI> Pag. <HI>522. &amp;c. Chry&s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t.</HI> in Matth. tract. <HI>29. Aug.</HI> de ci|vit. Dei. lib. <HI>22.</HI> cap. <HI>30.</HI> Idem. Epi&s;t. <HI>119.</HI> cap. <HI>12.</HI> Et de con&s;. Evang. lib. <HI>2.</HI> cap. <HI>77.</HI></NOTE> And thus ought we to keep a holy Sabbath throughout the whole cour&s;e of our dayes. Divers of the An|cients dwell much upon this, per&s;wa|ding Chri&s;tians &s;o to practi&s;e piety, and pur&s;ue &s;anctity, as to perpetuate a Sab|bath. As upon the Lords day we &s;hould be full of &s;pirits, &s;o after the Lords day we &s;hould be &s;piritual &s;till. As on that day we &s;hould live in the Spirit, &s;o after|ward we &s;hould walk in the Spirit, <HI>Gal.</HI> 5.25. <HI>This I &s;ay then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye &s;hall not fulfill the lu&s;ts of the fle&s;h.</HI> If all the week we be carnal, how can it appear we are &s;piritual on the Sab|bath? A good Author &s;peaks well in this ca&s;e, <HI>Have we well &s;erved the Lord upon his day?</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Bucer. <HI>in Matth.</HI> 12.11.</NOTE> <HI>let our manners &s;hew it, let our works prove it, let the holine&s;&s;e of our lives decleare it.</HI> Who will believe that he hath been pre&s;ent in publick A&s;&s;emblies, and with a &s;incere heart hath heard Gods ho|ly Word, who pa&s;&s;es the following part of his life more loo&s;ely, vainly, carnally, coveteou&s;ly, <HI>&amp;c?</HI> 'Tis this will evidence that on the Sabbath we have been with
<PB N="475" REF="258"> Je&s;us, when afterward our faces and gra|ces &s;hine, our lips and lives hold out the prai&s;es of Chri&s;t, and the power of his Go&s;pel. When the Lords day comes we &s;hould be as lively, firy, and full, as if we were then to begin and end Gods work. We &s;hould be found in &s;uch a fr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">me every Lords day, as if that were the fir&s;t Sabbath that ever we &s;pent, and as if it were the la&s;t day that we &s;hould live on this earth; or as if the weight of all our work lay upon that &s;ingle Sabbath for which we were &s;ent into the World: or as if our eternal be|ing were to be determined hereby. And yet after the day is over we mu&s;t endeavour &s;till to be doing, as if no work were done. For as we mu&s;t be all abundant and fervent on the Sabbath day in the &s;ervice of God, as if after were no holy duties: So we mu&s;t be as full and forward to all following duties, as if there had been no Sabbath before. Before the Sabbath day, and after we mu&s;t do all the good we can even as if there were no Chri&s;t to be re|lyed upon, and yet our relyance, both in life and death, mu&s;t be on our dear
<PB N="476" REF="259"> Lorld, as if there never had been the lea&s;t good done.</P>
<P>We mu&s;t be preci&s;e for the Sabbath-day, and duty. And yet, yet,
<Q><L>Duty &s;hall not be our Redeemer,</L>
<L>Nor the Sabbath our Saviour.</L></Q></P>
<P>Whether Sabbath-day or week-day we will do as much good as ever we are able: but begin and end all in Chri&s;t.</P>
<Q><L>The end with us, &s;hall be the glory of the Lord;</L>
<L>And with the Lord in glory, &s;hall be our end.</L></Q>
<CLOSER>Amen, Amen.</CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
<PB REF="259">
</DIV1>
</BODY>
<BACK>
<DIV1 TYPE="index">
<PB REF="260">
<PB REF="260">
<HEAD>AN Alphabetical Table directing to &s;ome Principal things in this Treati&s;e.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="A" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>A</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>ADam</HI> in Innocency to keep the Sab|bath. <HI>pag. 7, 175</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Advocate how Christ is, and for whom. <HI>p. 402</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Angels they have a twofold knowledge, <HI>p. 216</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Angels all Mini&s;tring &s;pirits. <HI>pag. 227</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Angels helpers in all holy Duties. <HI>p. 228</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Angels delight in Sabbath-&s;ervice, <HI>p. 217.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Athei&s;ts of two &s;orts. <HI>p. 32</HI></ITEM>
<PB REF="261">
<ITEM>Antichri&s;ts ruine how wrought. <HI>p. 198</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Augu&s;tine's</HI> an&s;wer to a Manichees <HI>p. 328</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A&s;&s;ent to Divine truths what. <HI>p. 121</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="B" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>B</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>BAbylons</HI> fall two-fold. <HI>p. 203</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bapti&s;me of Infants why many again&s;t it. <HI>p. 401</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Bapti&s;me of Infants its great u&s;e. <HI>pag. 340</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Book of P&s;almes how excell<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nt. <HI>p. 129</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Blood of Chri&s;t what it purcha&s;ed. <HI>p. 92</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ble&s;&s;ing of God how de&s;ireable. <HI>p. 197</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Breaches abundance how they come. <HI>p. 339</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="C" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>C</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>CHange of the Sabbath upon a double cau&s;e. <HI>p. 34</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Chri&s;tian liberty wherein it con&s;i&s;ts. <HI>p. 36, 37</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Charitable Duties how fit for the Sabbath. <HI>p. 66, 132</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Church-Di&s;cipline exerci&s;ed on the Lords Day. <HI>p. 131</HI></ITEM>
<PB REF="261">
<ITEM>Cen&s;ures in the Church how to be inflicted. <HI>p. 407</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Chearfulne&s;&s;e in Gods &s;ervice required. <HI>p. 462</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Collections for the poor how to be managed. <HI>p. 340</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Con&s;cience good what it is. <HI>p. 253</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Con&s;cience troubled how &s;ad. <HI>p. 222</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Contentions of Brethren how bad. <HI>p. 328</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Communion with Chri&s;t how &s;weet. <HI>pag. 102</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Chri&s;t &s;piritual in all his E&s;tates. <HI>p. 390</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e the root of evil. <HI>p. 50</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="D" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>D</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>DAyes all how they are the Lords. <HI>p. 4.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Difference of Dayes how under the Go&s;pel. <HI>p. 38</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Doctrine of the Lords Day &s;trongly to be held. <HI>p. 122</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Day of Judgment drawes near. <HI>p. 116</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Delights in the Lords Day required. <HI>pa. 456</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>De&s;ires after God di&s;covered. <HI>p. 350</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Di&s;cipline requi&s;ite in the Church. <HI>p. 429</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Divel a bitter enemy to tht Sabbath. <HI>pag. 410</HI></ITEM>
<PB REF="262">
<ITEM>Divel large in knowledge. <HI>p. 321</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Divels called &s;piritual wickedne&s;&s;es, why, <HI>p. 412</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Divi&s;ions the evil of them. <HI>p. 431</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Divi&s;ions how clo&s;ed. <HI>p 432</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="E" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>E</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>ENgland</HI> one of the ten horns. <HI>p. 241</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>England</HI> old how made new. <HI>p. 433</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Enmities in man again&s;t God. <HI>p. 319</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Errours again&s;t the Sabbath how &s;ad. <HI>p 83</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="F" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>F</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>FAthers of three &s;orts. <HI>p. 208</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Faith beyond feeling. <HI>p. 335</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Faith hath its Dimen&s;ions. <HI>p 289</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Faith its various &V;&s;e. <HI>p. 387</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Faith in the &s;tate, and in the Acts diffe|renced. <HI>p 235</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Faith the be&s;t belo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed Grace. <HI>p. 248</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Fervency in prayer how fit. <HI>p. 398</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Forgetfulne&s;&s;e of God how &s;infull. <HI>pag. 87</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Fourth Commandment mo&s;t excellent. <HI>pa. 9</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="G" TYPE="part">
<PB REF="262">
<HEAD>G</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>GOd what he be&s;t liketh. <HI>p 424</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Go&s;pel whereunto it guideth. <HI>p. 122</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Go&s;pel vailed in the Law. <HI>p. 177</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Go&s;pel it excels the Law. <HI>p. 190</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Government of Chri&s;t how ordered. <HI>p. 394</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Grace in its actings mo&s;t excellent. <HI>p. 416</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ground why to be till'd by <HI>Adam. p. 7</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="H" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>H</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>HAnds given for a threefold work. <HI>p. 75</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hearts of Gods Saints like Vials. <HI>p 302</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Heart is the best part in a Saint. <HI>p. 305</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Heart of a wicked man as a bow. <HI>p. 321</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hearing Gods Word a Duty. <HI>p. 128</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hereticks not endure Scripture. <HI>p. 364</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Honour to Christ due as to God. <HI>p. 305</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Humble how nece&s;&s;ary. <HI>p 325</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Humility how wrought. <HI>p. 326</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Hypocrite how far ob&s;erving the Sabbath. <HI>p. 417</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="I" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>I</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>IDlene&s;&s;e on the Sabbath a great &s;in. <HI>pag. 52</HI></ITEM>
<PB REF="263">
<ITEM>Judgments of God upon Sabbath-breakers. <HI>p. 103</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Jewi&s;h Sabbath cea&s;ed. <HI>p. 31</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Judgment Day now approaching, <HI>p. 116</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Jewes had divers Sabbaths, <HI>p. 176</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>I&s;rael</HI> a more excellent Name then <HI>Jacob. p. 189</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>I&s;le <HI>Patmos</HI> where it was. <HI>p. 2</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>John</HI> the Apo&s;tle compared to the Eagle, <HI>p. 1.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Interce&s;&s;ion of Chri&s;t how performed. <HI>pa. 393</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Judgments of God on Sabbath-breakers. <HI>p. 105</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="K" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>K</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>KNowledge of God by his Judgments. <HI>p. 118</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Knowledge nece&s;&s;ary to practice. <HI>p 458</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Knowledge, to &s;in again&s;t it &s;ad. <HI>p. 144</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="L" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>L</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>LA&s;t dayes many Antichri&s;ts. <HI>p. 14</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Law given by Chri&s;t, <HI>p. 141</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Law and Go&s;pel differing. <HI>p. 38</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Libe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ty under the Go&s;pel what it is. <HI>p. 36</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Light of Nature to what it leads. <HI>p. 122</HI></ITEM>
<PB REF="263">
<ITEM>Love the &s;pring of all Gods Mercies. <HI>p. 470</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Love the &s;pring of all our obedience. <HI>p. 125</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lords Day how excellent a Name. <HI>p. 189</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lords Prayer how excellent. <HI>p. 190</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lords Supper how excellent. <HI>p. 191</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lord of the Sabbath why Chri&s;t &s;o called. <HI>p. 24</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lord of Ho&s;ts why God &s;o &s;tiled. <HI>p. 112</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="M" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>M</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>MAgi&s;trates who honour them mo&s;t. <HI>p. 208</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Magi&s;trate his duty on the Lords day, <HI>p. 134</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Minister on the Lords Day his duty. <HI>p. 135</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ma&s;ters of Families their duties thereon. <HI>p. 136</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mini&s;ters Office mo&s;t excellent wherein. <HI>p. 184</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mi&s;&s;ion of the Holy Gho&s;t when it was. <HI>p. 19</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Meditation how excellent. <HI>p. 370</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Man a compound creature. <HI>p. 257</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mini&s;ters work differing from others. <HI>p. 353</HI></ITEM>
<PB REF="264">
<ITEM>Mini&s;ters mu&s;t preach though none profit. <HI>p. 229</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Motions &s;piritual how di&s;covered. <HI>p. 348</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="N" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>N</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>NAzienzen's</HI> &s;aying of <HI>Athana&s;ius. p. 326</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Nece&s;&s;ary what works are for the Sabbath. <HI>p. 74</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Nece&s;&s;ary the Sabbath for all &s;orts of men. <HI>p. 144</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="O" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>O</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>OBedience to God is a debt upon all, <HI>p. 141</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Obedience double due to God. <HI>p. 148</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ordinances their great &V;&s;e. <HI>p. 369</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ordinances the be&s;t not above them. <HI>p. 147</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ordinances of God are all &s;pirituall. <HI>pa. 395</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Order in Gods &s;ervice requi&s;ite. <HI>p. 459</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="P" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>P</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>PAtience its nece&s;&s;ary &V;&s;e. <HI>p. 335</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Plea&s;ures of &s;in, and &s;inful plea&s;ures differ. <HI>p. 43</HI></ITEM>
<PB REF="264">
<ITEM>Places of publick Wor&s;hip to be frequented. <HI>p. 63</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Publick preaching above private reading. <HI>p. 64</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Puni&s;hed here &s;ome &s;inners are and not other so, why. <HI>p. 118</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>P&s;almes of <HI>David</HI> fit to be &s;ung. <HI>pag. 129</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>People of God more excellent then o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">her men. <HI>p. 190</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Power given to the Apo&s;tles threefold. <HI>p. 18</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Prayer the admirable force thereof. <HI>p. 204</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Prai&s;ing of God more excellent then prayer. <HI>p. 371</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Preparation to the Sabbath opened. <HI>pag. 444</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pre&s;ence of God how with his Ordinances. <HI>p. 358</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="R" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>R</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>RAnting condemned. <HI>p. 341</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Rainbow &s;ign of peace. <HI>p. 321</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Reading the Scriptures in publick nece&s;&s;ary. <HI>p. 367</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Rea&s;on cannot rule many men. <HI>p. 334</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Redemption &s;urpa&s;&s;es the work of Creation. <HI>p. 11</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Robbery wor&s;e then theft. <HI>p. 88</HI></ITEM>
<PB REF="265">
<ITEM>Re&s;urrection of Chri&s;t how excellent. <HI>p. 16</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Remembrance of Good what it implyes. <HI>p. 438</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Reliance mu&s;t be on Christ alone. <HI>p. 476</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Relap&s;ers of three &s;orts. <HI>p. 146</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Resting in Ordinances how bad. <HI>p. 369</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ruine of <HI>Rome</HI> drawes nigh. <HI>p. 241</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="S" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>S</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>SAbbath how it ought to be continuall. <HI>p. 39</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sabbath the whole Day to be kept, <HI>p. 56, 71</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sabbath-breaking how great a &s;in. <HI>p. 86</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sabbath not &s;anctified is polluted. <HI>p. 95</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sacrifices dead &s;uited Jewi&s;h Sabbaths. <HI>p. 374</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sacriledge how great a &s;in. <HI>p. 89</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sin wor&s;e then puni&s;hment. <HI>p. 109</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sin against Ordinances how great. <HI>p. 90</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Singing of P&s;almes a &s;weet Duty. <HI>p. 128</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Soul of man how excellent. <HI>p. 154</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sacraments to be administred on the Sab|bath day. <HI>p. 130</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Segullah</HI> what it &s;ignifies. <HI>p. 26</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sacrament of the Supper how excellent. <HI>p. 191</HI></ITEM>
<PB REF="265">
<ITEM>Separation, the evils thereof. <HI>p. 337</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Seducers why called &s;pirits. <HI>p. 413</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Seraphims, why Angels &s;o called. <HI>p. 422</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Soul of man hath a double Man&s;ion. <HI>p 260</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Spirie how variou&s;ly taken. <HI>p. 257</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Spirit of God moves freely. <HI>p. 329</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="T" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>T</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>THankfulne&s;&s;e for Sabbath liberties. <HI>p. 470</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Tree of life more excelllent then the Tree of knowledge. <HI>p. 345</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Trinity of per&s;ons their proper works. <HI>p. 20</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="U" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>U</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>UNity among Chri&s;tians, the good fruits thereof. <HI>p. 433</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&V;nity in Religion how obtained. <HI>p. 432</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>&V;nthankfulne&s;&s;e a great &s;in. <HI>p. 86</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="W" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>W</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>VVAlden&s;es</HI> whence their Ri&s;e. <HI>p. 120</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Watchfulne&s;&s;e in Gods &s;ervants needfull. <HI>p. 463</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Withering branch and root how &s;ad. <HI>p. 166</HI></ITEM>
<PB REF="266">
<ITEM>Week-day Lectures their good. <HI>p. 174</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>We<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">k-day pl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;ures their danger. <HI>p 221</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Works not to be done on the Sabbath, two &s;orts. <HI>p. 42</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Works on the Sabbath to be done of two &s;orts. <HI>p. 51</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Works Chri&s;t did, the &s;ame God did. <HI>p. 10</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Willingne&s;&s;e required in Gods &s;ervice, <HI>pag. 459</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Word preached better then Word read. <HI>pa. 64</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wrath unfits men for good Duties. <HI>p. 452.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="Z" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Z</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>ZEal in Gods &s;ervice good. <HI>p. 375</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Zion deprived of Sabbaths, &s;ad. <HI>pa. 152</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="Scriptural citations">
<PB REF="266">
<HEAD>Some Scriptures occa&s;ionally explained.</HEAD>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>Gene&s;is.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">ch.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">ver.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">pag.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>2.</CELL>
<CELL>3.</CELL>
<CELL>197</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>13.</CELL>
<CELL>8.</CELL>
<CELL>327</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>Exodus.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">ch.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">v.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">pag.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>32.</CELL>
<CELL>19.</CELL>
<CELL>161</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>Leviticus.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">ch.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">ver.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">pag.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>26.</CELL>
<CELL>33.</CELL>
<CELL>153</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>1 Sam.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">ch.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">v.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">pa.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>28.</CELL>
<CELL>15.</CELL>
<CELL>363</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>Job.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">ch.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">ver.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">pag.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>1.</CELL>
<CELL>6.</CELL>
<CELL>228</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>Proverbs.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">ch.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">ver.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">pag.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>24.</CELL>
<CELL>27.</CELL>
<CELL>183</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>25.</CELL>
<CELL>11.</CELL>
<CELL>183</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>P&s;alm.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>41.</CELL>
<CELL>1.</CELL>
<CELL>306</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>51.</CELL>
<CELL>12.</CELL>
<CELL>283</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>108</CELL>
<CELL>1.</CELL>
<CELL>306</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>E&s;ay.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">ch.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">ver.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">pag.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>43.</CELL>
<CELL>1.</CELL>
<CELL>413</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>Jeremiah.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">ch.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">ver.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">pag.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>17.</CELL>
<CELL>27.</CELL>
<CELL>104</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>Lamenta.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">ch.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">ver.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">pag.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>2.</CELL>
<CELL>6.</CELL>
<CELL>103</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>Amos.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>4.</CELL>
<CELL>7.</CELL>
<CELL>111</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>Matthew.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">Ch.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Ve.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Pag.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>5.</CELL>
<CELL>3.</CELL>
<CELL>266</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>12.</CELL>
<CELL>44</CELL>
<CELL>316</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>24.</CELL>
<CELL>20.</CELL>
<CELL>24</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>Mark.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">ch.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">ver.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">pag.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>1.</CELL>
<CELL>23.</CELL>
<CELL>316</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>2.</CELL>
<CELL>28.</CELL>
<CELL>26</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>Luke.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">ch.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">v.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">pag.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>2.</CELL>
<CELL>37.</CELL>
<CELL>73</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>5.</CELL>
<CELL>6.</CELL>
<CELL>237</CELL>
</ROW>
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<ROW>
<CELL>15.</CELL>
<CELL>8.</CELL>
<CELL>267</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>John.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">ch.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">ver.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">pag.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>20.</CELL>
<CELL>24.</CELL>
<CELL>17</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>Romans.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">ch.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">ver.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">pag.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>8.</CELL>
<CELL>7.</CELL>
<CELL>319</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>8.</CELL>
<CELL>9.</CELL>
<CELL>262</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>8.</CELL>
<CELL>26.</CELL>
<CELL>382</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>9.</CELL>
<CELL>16.</CELL>
<CELL>230</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>12.</CELL>
<CELL>2.</CELL>
<CELL>258</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>Galatians.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">ch.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">ver.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">pag.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>3.</CELL>
<CELL>9.</CELL>
<CELL>141</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>5.</CELL>
<CELL>25.</CELL>
<CELL>261</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>2 Timothy.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">ch.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">v.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">pag.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>4.</CELL>
<CELL>2.</CELL>
<CELL>183</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>2 The&s;&s;alonians.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">ch.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">v.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">pag.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>2.</CELL>
<CELL>8.</CELL>
<CELL>204</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>Hebrews.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">ch.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">ver.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">pag.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>4.</CELL>
<CELL>12.</CELL>
<CELL>360</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>1 Peter.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">ch.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">v.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">pag.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>2.</CELL>
<CELL>2.</CELL>
<CELL>64</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>Jam.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">ch.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">ver.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">pag.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>4.</CELL>
<CELL>5.</CELL>
<CELL>316</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>1 John.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">ch.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">v.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">pag.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>4.</CELL>
<CELL>1.</CELL>
<CELL>325</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>Revelations.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">ch.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">ver.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">pag.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>4.</CELL>
<CELL>8.</CELL>
<CELL>265</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>5.</CELL>
<CELL>8.</CELL>
<CELL>302</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>12.</CELL>
<CELL>15.</CELL>
<CELL>381</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>14.</CELL>
<CELL>6.</CELL>
<CELL>203</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>21.</CELL>
<CELL>22.</CELL>
<CELL>147</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>22.</CELL>
<CELL>1.</CELL>
<CELL>290</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
<PB REF="267">
</DIV1>
</BACK>
</TEXT>
</EEBO>
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