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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48737	Solomons gate, or, An entrance into the church being a familiar explanation of the grounds of religion conteined in the fowr [sic] heads of catechism, viz. the Lords prayer, the Apostles creed, the Ten commandments, the sacraments / fitted to vulgar understanding by A.L.	Littleton, Adam, 1627-1694.	1662 (1662)	Wing L2573; ESTC R34997	164,412	526

Sunday as their Sabbath whereon our Saviour rose again from the dead and shew'd himself to his Disciples Another difference betwixt us is that we are not obliged to that Iudaïcal strictness but are allow'd a chearfull freedom yet not so as to make it a day of pastime for it follows that it is THE SABBATH OF THE LORD THY GOD as appointed by him or To the Lord thy God as dedicated to his especial service a day wherein thou art to contemplate the works of the Lord wrought in the Creation and the mercyes of thy God shown forth in thy Redemption a time set apart not for thy business much less for thy sport but for God's glory and publick worship to be spent wholly in performances of holy dutyes IN IT THOU SHALT DO NO MANNER OF WORK Nothing of common drudgery of thy ordinary vocation of thy weeks work none of thy work for it 't is not meant that we should sit still and doe nothing but works of piety as going to Church and the Priest's offering their Sacrifices in the Old Law c. are God's work and works of necessity as provision of food c. are the works of Nature and works of Charity as healing the sick taking the oxe or ass out of the pit c. are works of Grace And these must and may be done without any violation of the Sabbath THOU God here cals all the family to an account so careful he is of his own day And whereas in the other Commandements Thou is directed to every body here it carryes a special warrant to the superiour seeming to require of him that he not onely keep it himself in his own person but take care also that all in his charge keep it too Thou whether thou art magistrate master or mistress of the house father tutor or whatever governour imploy thy authority to see my Sabbath duely observ'd Yet not so as that the superiours negligence shall be an excuse for the inferior's for they are all spoken too here by name AND THY SON Children are naturally more apt to neglect their duty then able to perform it or indeed willing to understand it They must be taught it then and kept to it Acquaint thy son therefore with my wayes and instruct him in my fear Train him up in good courses that he may not be prepossess'd with vicious customs Bring him to Church let him be couversant in Scripture and learn the principles of Religion and seek me early that he may grow up as in stature so in wisedom and grace and favour with God and good men AND THY DAUGHTER No age nor sex priviledg'd from Sabbath-duty And these two words include all inferiours who are not in a servile condition all children pupils scholars citizens subjects whose respective governours are particularly to heed their observance of this day THY MAN-SERVANT AND THY MAID SERVANT All thy servants whether hired or bought all that doe thee work and receive thy wages Neither thy Avarice nor their own lust shall imploy them and cause them to absent themselves from my service Servants that day 〈◊〉 God's servants and their master's fellow-servants yet to be commanded and overlook'd by their masters that they do serve God And indeed it is the master's great interest to see that this day be well observ'd in his family since he cannot well expect that his own work should prosper if God's work be neglected or that those servants will be faithfull in his service who doe not care to serve God THY CATTLE The Greek reads here as 't is express'd in Deuteronomie and thy oxe and thy ass and thy cattle i.e. all labouring beasts which man makes use of for tillage of the ground for carriage of burdens for going of journeys c. that they also may rest from their usual labour and may have a time of refreshment for there is a charity too due to these brute-servants and the good man is mercifull to his beast But does God take care of oxen Though they have a share in his providence yet what are they concern'd in his Law which is spiritual and holy 'T is for man's sake whom they serve in whose charge they are that they are here mention'd And indeed should the cattle have been left out it might have look'd like an allowance to worldly-minded men to have set them on work the attendance of that would have prov'd the imployment of men too for that beasts will hardly work alone without the direction oversight of men NOR THY STRANGER THAT IS WITHIN THY GATES He that sojourns with thee within thy city so the Magistrate is concern'd or thy guest in thy house and so 't is the duty of the Master of the family to see that strangers of what countrey or religion soever comply with this Law and doe not violate the Sabbath-rest by travell keeping market following their merchandise or any other worldly occasions The Hebrew words are sometimes taken in a special strict sense so as that the stranger means one of another countrey converted to the Iewish profession and observances call'd otherwise a Proselyte and the Gates being the place of session or assize where the Iudges and Magistrates met for the tryall and decision of causes mean the civil power and jurisdiction But they are here questionless to be taken in the larger and more common sense FOR IN SIX DAYES THE LORD This is the reason of the Command and shews farther the equity of it that we would not think much to doe as God himself did and indeed the morality of it too for this reason concerns all mankind Heathen as well as Iew wherefore to intimate the universal obligation it hath it sayes not the Lord thy God as before but only the Lord. MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH THE SEA AND ALL THAT IN THEM IS He finish'd the work of creation and did all which he had to do in that first week of the world And it would be worth our imitation to consider how God takes a review of every day's work and it would be well for us that we could every night before we take our natural rest take account of our actions and see that they are good and at the weeks end before we enter upon this spiritual rest survey the work of the whole week and say of it not that it were exceeding good but that at least it were not exceeding evil Two things in the method of God's working may be worth our particular notice that the evening is mention'd still before the morning as if God had taken counsel o're night what he should doe next day and that God made man last on the very Sabbath-eve as if he had made him for no other purpose then to keep the Sabbath in the admiration of his works and the celebration of his praise AND RESTED THE SEAVENTH DAY God might have been working on still and set forth his power in new productions for Omnipotence cannot be

in his ●y supplyes their wants opens his hand and fils them with his goodness cherishes and maintains them And having built this goodly frame of heaven and earth doth with his everlasting armes what vain story sayes of Atlas support and uphold it or rather as his Vice-gerents are pictur'd with a Globe in one hand and a Scepter in the other grasps the whole world in his hand and dandles it in his lap as a tender hearted mother her playsom child Can he that implanted so tender an affection in all mothers dammes to their young ones himself be without large bowels of compassion full breasts of mercy and a tender bosom of love His goodness exceeds all comparison Though a mother should forget her child yet saith he I will not forget my people Providence is that great dug at which every creature hangs and draws its comfort by which all things are maintain'd whence are issued forth daily allowances and constant provisions dealt out For he commands blessing and deliverance Thou art my shepheard saith the Psalmist and I shall want nothing The Spirit of God saith the sacred Historian mov'd upon the face of the deep that Chaos and first matter out of which the several kinds of creatures were afterwards to be particularly produced A word proper to birds that sit upon their eggs brood them He flutter'd and sate upon it and kept it in a lively warmth and quicken'd that rude lump that he might out of that great confused ball wherein the seeds of things lay jumbled which therefore an ancient Philosopher call'd Natures Egg hatch a well order'd world And since God hath compar'd himself in one place to a broody eagle Christ in another himself to a hen the one teaching her young ones to fly and shift for themselves by carrying them on her back the other clucking her chickens with great pains scraping up their subsistence cherishing them under her wings and with all her might protecting them from rapine We may from these similitudes learn what a dear love and careful fear God hath for all his least they come to hurt God then may very well be styled a Father in this sense too that he hath not only as a Father given being to all things but as a Father of a family provides for al about him furnishing them with convenient accommodations and seasonable supplyes Nor is this all yet but he orders all things disposes chance overrules events to his own ends doing whatsoever he pleaseth both in heaven and earth even as Fathers order the affairs of their family or as magistrates who are the Fathers of their country manage the civil state making lawes and putting them in execution rewarding the obedient punishing the disobedient Indeed all government is naturally bottom'd upon this relation and grounded in a paternal authority the Father at first exercising all power even to life and death over those of his own family nor is a city or common-wealth any other then a more numerous family subject to the same ruler and govern'd by the same laws God then it is that gives order for every thing by whom and when and how it should be done Not a sparrow fals to the ground without his leave The whole series of second causes is but that golden chain the Poets fancied whose uppermost link is fasten'd to Iove's chair He is the Lord of Hoasts such as are the stars in their courses thunder lightning hail snow rain wind and storm fulfilling his word nay frogs and lice when he hath service for them will muster into armies and the locusts gather themselves into bands He knows best what will make for our good and his own glory and by his wise contrivance carry's things in that nature that they shall all work together for those ends He is in the world as a King in his Kingdom Where his word is there is power and who shall say to him what dost thou Angels are his attendants and menials the other creatures his utensils But men though they are term'd vessels too in his great house yet they are priviledg'd with a nearer relation to him They are his children for he is our Father OUR This word denotes a propriety and closer interest seeing he is not our Father alone in that general sense in that he made us not we our selves as he is styled the Father of rain and the Father of lights nor for the greater likeness we have to him more then our fellow creatures which is common to us with the Angels who are therefore call'd the Sons of God But by redemption also having purchas'd us by the Blood of his Son and made us a peculiar people to himself and having begotten us anew by the word and spirit and adopted us by grace that we who are by nature children of wrath might be made the children of God and to which of the Angels ever said he thus my Son Oh! what a condescension of love that God should suffer himself to be styled our Father who have corruption for our mother that Christ should become our brother whose sisters are the worms For if we be sons then are we heirs and if heirs then coheirs with Christ Oh infinite love and kindness unspeakable how dearly obliging an expression that our Saviour who is the only Son of God begotten of his substance should not permit but command us to call God our Father too my Father and your Father sayes he Now as Father is a word of authority and signifies love and care bespeaking from us a reciprocal love a filial reverence and obedience so Our is a note of indearment which should teach us charity which indeed the whole prayer breaths in all the parts of it Give us Forgive us and Deliver us bringing in all mankind to partake the benefit of our prayers And seeing it hath pleased God to own us for children and Christ to make us partners of his relation to become brethren it would very ill beseem the best of saints or greatest of men to disdain any of their fellow-brethren he they never so miserable never so wicked Since were there not a community of the same nature the sense of humanity the tyes of reason and religion and the laws of nations to bring us to some kind of unity and mutual affection God's love to us is an invincible argument why we should love one another WHICH ART And there is none beside thee For whom have I in heaven but thee and there is none upon earth that I desire in comparison of thee Indeed the original doth not so express it making use of the article alone and leaving the verb to be understood which as 't is elliptical so 't is an emphatical kind of speaking He or The in Heaven which should note a superlative excellence above all others to whom the title of Father can belong the

be warie of doing ought which may indirectly or by casualty either deprive him of it or imbitter it to him but shalt by thy mild behaviour and offices of friendship and kindness help to make his life pleasant and lasting And now when we do but think how peccant the Nation hath been in this Command how we have murthered one another for hire and improved the heats of a civil war with private animosityes with a blind zeal the rage of a mistaken conscience thinking we have done God good service by sacrificing one another How we have pretended publick justice to our ambitious designs and pull'd all down that stood in our way to greatness How we entitled our selves to Saint-ship by binding Kings in chains and their Nobles in fetters of iron and accounted it our duty to God to kill and murder our fellow subjects and imbrew our hands in the blood of our Soveraign How still we are given to quarrel and are loath to lay down the cudgels of contention but are ready to justifie a wicked Cause to new troubles and a second tryal of war and by our discontents tempt providence to remove our peace How zealous and industrious we show our selves in promoting faction and making partyes How we sharpen our tongues and our pens to shoot bitter words against one another How peevish and sullen how easily provok'd and how hardly reconcil'd how eager upon slight occasion to break peace and part with charity and about things indifferent how not indifferent we are have we not very great cause to pray as the Church teacheth us Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this Law The seaventh Commandement The sixth secures life This orders the preservation of chastity they both forbid any wicked attempt upon our neighbour's person That by curbing anger This by bridling lust That prohibits the killing This the defiling of our neighbour and indeed though Life be the first considerable yet Chastity is a greater care seeing that the abuse of the body by uncleanness draws along with it a greater danger to the injur'd person then murder as that which being commonly attended with consent makes the sufferer accessary and wrongs the soul no less then the body And possibly some such reason there might be for the transposing of these Commandements in some copyes and placing this of adultery and that of theft before murder the staining or impoverishing one being as bad as killing one out of the way and as good have no life at all as to live in disgrace or want THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY Thou shalt not through lust or intemperance or any wanton excess abuse thy own or thy neighbour's body or break the rules of chastity but shalt with great care keep a holy and a clean conversation and denying all ungodliness worldly lusts and unlawful pleasures preserve thy self pure from all filthy pollutions of the flesh Thou shalt be moderate in the use of all lawful pleasures and recreations and order them to serious ends to make thee more chearful in the service of me and the performance of the dutyes of life Thou shalt not greedily devour the creatures I provide for thy use and fill thy self with meats and drinks to indispose thee for prayer or business Thou shalt avoid surfeting and drunkenness and gluttony nor yet pinch thy self with unreasonable abstinence or sordid thrift but allow thy self honest and suitable refection and recreation Thou shalt not be too nice and dainty in the choice of food and other treatments of thy self but content thy self with that which is wholsom and agreeable to thy condition Thou shalt make a sober and a temperate use of my gifts and allowances be watchful and jealous over thy self at food in company in thy delights and pastimes and at thy leisures that the tempter may not take advantage of thee Thou shalt be careful of thy habit and attire that it be decent and comely not garish and immodest that it be fitted for warmth to hide nakedness not to shew pride Thou shalt in thy gesture and behaviour compose thy self to a chearful modesty so as to shew civility and courtesie not to discover wantonness or invite lust Thou shalt shake of sloath and take heed of idleness as that which betrayes to such temptations and breeds nurses lust Thou shalt not too much indulge thy self to sleep but take a competent share which may be convenient for thy health and employment to repair nature not to besot her Thou shalt keep thy vessel in holiness and forbear all gross uncleanness Thou shalt not wrong thy neighbour's bed nor offer violence or enticement to any one Thou shalt not use nor allow the use of stews nor frequent places of ill fame Thou shalt not burn with unnatural lusts nor practise secret villany or give thy self up to dishonourable passions and beastly sensuality but learn from the examples of my vengeance to stand in aw of my judgements for whoremongers and adulterers God will judge and thou shalt be holy as I am holy and pure that thou mayst see God Thou shalt avoid filthy communication and foolish speech and idle jesting but have thy discourse season'd with salt of discretion that it may not corrupt good manners but tend to edification Thou shalt not look upon any one to lust nor reach out a desire in thy heart after the appearances of beauty Thou shalt not be wanton in thy apparel or demeanour but behave thy self with bashfulness and with modesty complying with civil fashionable customs Thou shalt be ware of meetings shows playes sonnets dances and all other occasions which may prove invitements to ill for fear thou fall into the snare of the Divel Thou shalt in private have awful thoughts of my presence and when necessity or chance or duty brings thee forth into the publick and the sight of men so behave thy self with that circumspection that thou mayst not get any soil from converse nor disimprove thy self but better thy company obliging them with all civil respect and yet with the gravity of thy carriage checking vain thoughts and hindring the first opportunityes of ill it being easier to master lust in its beginning then to prevent it's growth Yet if thou canst not contain thy self in the limits of a single life thou shalt in my fear make use of that remedy which I have appointed and shalt pray to me to direct thee in thy choice that thou mayst have a woman of understanding Thou shalt not rashly or for carnal satisfaction enter into the holy state of matrimony but for my glory and mutual comfort shalt look upon marriage as an honourable institution Thou shalt not place thy affections where my law rules of honesty forbid it and shalt have a reverence for thy neer alliances and take heed of yoaking thy self unequally Thou shalt faithfully perform the marriage-covenant and have a loving and sweet respect to one anothers persons a quiet