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lord_n	call_v	day_n	sabbath_n	45,288	5	10.7053	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44186	The father's new-years-gift to his son containing divers useful and necessary directions how to order himself both in respect to this life and that which is to come / written by the Right Honourable Sir Matthew Hale ; whereunto is added, divine poems upon Christmas-day.	Hale, Matthew, Sir, 1609-1676.	1685 (1685)	Wing H246; ESTC R40538	14,741	70

and to desire his Grace to inable you in some measure to walk answerable thereunto And that you ought to come as often as you can to the Sacrament and there renew your Covenant with and offer up your Thankfulness to God 9. That you ought to be very moderate in your Eating Drinking Sleeping and Recreations and that you ought to be very frugal of your Time and account it one of your best Jewels 10. Beware of Gaming and remember that it is one of the most certain and sudden Ways of consuming an Estate that can be and that it is a Vice which seldom goes alone but is visibly accompanied with all kinds of Debauchery and makes a Man of a wild vast and unsetled mind and impatient of an honest Calling or of moderate and honest Gain In the last place be sure that you make conscience of Sanctifying the Lord's Day and for your better direction therein observe 1. What is the Reason and Ground of your observation of this Day 2. What things ought not to be done upon that Day 3. What things may be done upon that Day And 4. What things ought to be done in order to the Sanctification of that Day I. As to the Reasons why you ought to keep and sanctifie the Sabbath they are these 1. It is a Moral Duty that since the glorious God gave you your time you ought to consecrate and set apart some portion of it to be spent in a special manner to his Service 2. Because God best knows what portion of time is fit to be peculiarly dedicated to his Service that so the morality of that time might be determined unto some certainty he hath by the Fourth Command limited one day in seven to be dedicated to him 3. This seventh portion of Time which God hath commanded us to set a part for him was both by his Precept and Example confined to the Seventh day from the Creation of the World till the finishing of the great work of our Redemption by the Lord Jesus Christ the Mediator of the New Covenant 4. But our Saviour Christ who is the Eternal Son of God blessed for ever and Lord of the Sabbath having fulfilled the work of our Redemption on the first day of the week translated the observation of the seventh day of the week to the first day which is our Christian Sabbath So that as our Christian Baptism succeeds the Sacrament or Circumcision and as our Christian Pascha the Sacrament of the Eucharist succeeds the Jewish Passeover so our Christian Sabbath the first day of the Week succeeds the old Sabbath of the seventh day of the week And that Morality which was by Almighty God confin'd under the Law to the seventh day is now under the Gospel transfer'd to the first day of the week and that which would have been moraly a violation of the morality of the fourth Command before the Death of Christ is a breach of that Command and a violation of the Christian Sabbath if done upon the first day of the week 2. As to what ought not to be done you must take this as a certain Truth that what is not lawful to be done on another day is much more unlawful to be done upon this besides which there are many things which are lawful to be done upon another day and some that are not only lawful but also fit and necessary to be done which yet must not be done upon this day such as following the works of our Callings Journeys Recreations and the like 3. What things may be done upon that day is a Question of great latitude in regard Mens Circumstances vary and renders that lawful to one man that is not so to another But yet things of absolute necessity either in respect of Man or Beast may always be done upon the Lords Day as the stopping the breach of a Sea Wall the supporting a house that by a sudden Tempest is like to fall down the pulling out a Beast that is fallen into a Ditch setting a broken Bone Administring Physick Milking of Cows feeding of Cattle the necessary dressing of Meat for a Family and many other things of that kind but yet therein great Care and Caution is to be used lest under pretence of Necessity you do what you please For 1. That is not necessity that excuses a work upon this day which might have reasonably been soreseen and done the day before 2. That is not necessity that may be forborn till to morrow without any absolute destruction or loss of the thing 3. Works of Charity as Relieving the Poor Administring Physick Visiting or Comforting the Afflicted Admonishing the Disorderly perswading Peace between Neighbours offend and endeavouring to compose differences which require not much examination or cannot well be deferred these are not only permitted but commendable upon this day and we are commanded to perform them 4. As for what is proper fit and necessary to be done in order to your Sanctification of the Lords Day be sure that you Conscientiously observe and practice the following Directions 1. Meddle not with any Recreations Pastimes or the ordinary work of your Calling from Saturday Night at Eight of the Clock till Munday Morning for although Saturday night be not part of the Sabbath yet it is fit you should then be preparing your Heart for it 2. Rise at least three hours before Morning Sermon and when you have made your self fully readys and fitted your self for Solemnity of the Day read two Chapters in the Bible and then go solemnly to your Private Prayer and desire of God his Grace to enable you to sanctifie his day and after that read another Chapter and let your read be with Attention Observation and Uncovered on your Head 3. When you are in the publick Worship and Service of God be uncovered all the time of Reading Praying and Preaching 4. Be very devout and serious at your Prayers and very attentive in hearing the Sermons and to prevent your mind from wandering you will do well to write the Sermon which will help to fix your Thoughts and make you listen to the Sermon with the more diligence and attention 5. Let your Deportment at Church be very serious and grave use no Laughing nor Gazing about nor Wispering unless it be to ask those by you something of the Sermon that you slipped in Writing 6. Joyn with the Church in all the solemn and publick Duties of the Day and Sing the Singing Psalms with the rest of the Congregation 7. After Forenoon Sermon eat moderately at Dinner rather sparingly then plentifully that so you may be fit for the Afternoons Exercise without drowsiness or dulness 8. After Dinner walk about half an hour in the Garden or in your Chamber to digest your Meat and then repair to your Closet and peruse your Notes or recollect what you can remember of the Sermon until it be Church time 9. If you are well besure you go to Church Forenoon and Afternoon and be

there before the Minister begin and stay till he hath done and all the while you are there carry your self Gravely and Reverently 10. After Evening Sermon go to your Closet and having read a chapter in the Bible examin what you have writ or recollect what you remember and afterwards if the Sermon be repeated either in your Fathers or in the Ministers House go to the repition thereof 11. In all your Speeches and Actions on that day let there be no lightness or vanity use no Running Leaping or Playing or Wrestling use no Jesting or telling Tales or foolish Stories nor talk about News or Worldly Business but let both your Actions and your Words be such as the Day is Serious and Sacred and tending either to instrust others or inform your selves in the great business of your Knowledge of God and of his Will and of your own Duty 12. After Supper and Prayers ended in your Fathers Family repare to your Closet and there upon your Bended Knees implore Pardon of God for what you have amiss and beg his Blessing upon what you have heard and his acceptance of all your Performances for the merits and satisfaction of Christ And lastly perform all this Chearfully and Heartily Uprightly and Honestly and account it not a burden to you for assure your self that you shall find a Blessing from God in so doing and remember it is your Father that tells you so who loves you and will not deceive you and which is more then that remember that the Eternal God hath Promised Isa 58. 13 14. If thou turn away thy Foot from the Sabbath from doing thy Pleasure on my Holy Daq and call the Sabbath a Delight the Holy of the Lord Honourable and shalt Honour him not doing thy own ways nor finding thine own Pleasure nor speaking thine own Words then shalt thou delight thy self in the Lord and I will cause thee to ride upon the High places of the Earth and feed thee with the Heritage of Jacob thy Father for the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it ALmighty God when he had rais'd the Frame Of Heaven and Earth and furnished the same With Works of equal wonder framed then A piece of greater Excellence call'd Man Gave him a comprehensive Soul that soar'd Above the Creatures and beheld their Lord Inscrib'd him with his Image and did fill The Compass of his Intellect and Will With Truth and Good gave him the Custody Of his own Bliss and Immortality And justly now his Sovereign might Demand Subjection and Obedience at his Hand Were only Being given 't were but Right His Debt of Duty should be Infinite But here was more a Super-added dress Of Life Perfection and of Happiness Yet this Great King for an Experiment Of Mans deserv'd Allegiance is content To use an Easie Precept such as stood Both with his Creatures Duty and his Good Forbids one Fruit on Pain of Death and give Freely the rest which he might Eat and Live But Man Rebels and for one tast doth choose His Life his God his Innocence to lose And now Death stricken like a wounded Dear Strictly pursued by Guilt by Shame and Fear He seeks to lose himself from God he flies And takes a Wilderness of Miseries A Land of New Transgressions where his course Is closer bound his Nature growing worse And whil'st in this condition Mankind lay A Man would think his injured God should say There lies accursed Man and let him lye Intangled in that Webb of Misery Which his own Sin hath spun I must be True And Just Unthankful Man thou hast thy due But 't was not so though Man the Mastery With his Creators Power and Will dares try And being overmatcht will still disdain To seek a Pardon from his Sovereign The Great and Glorious God the Mighty King Of Heaven and Earth despis'd by such a thing As Man a Worm of his own making breaks The rules of Greatness and his Creator seeks His Froward Creature not in such a way As once he did in the Cool of the Day Wherein Man Sinn'd and hid such Majesty Had been too great for Mans Necessity But the Eternal Son of God the Word By which all things were made the Mighty Lord Assumes our Flesh and under that he laies And hides his Greatness and those Glorious Rayes Of Majesty which had been over bright And too resplendant for poor Mortals sight And under this Disguise the King of Kings The Message of his Fathers Mercy brings Solicites Mans Return pay's the Price Of his Transgression by the Sacrifice Of his own Soul and undertakes to Cure Their Sin their Peace and Pardon to Procure To conquer Death for him and more then this To settle him in Everlasting Bliss And now O Man could this access of Love Thy Thankfulness to such a height improve That it could fire thy Soul into a Flame Of Love To him alone that bought the same At such a rate yet still it were too small To recompence thy Saviours Love withal Once did he give thee Being from the Dust And for that only Being 't were but Just To pay thy utmost self But when once more Thy Being and thy Bliss he did restore By such a means as this if doth Bereave Thy Soul of hopes of Recompence and leaves Thy Soul insolvent twice to him this day Thou ow'st thy self yet but one self canst pay Another REader the Title of this Solemn Day And what it doth import doth bid thee stay And read and Wonder 't is that Mystery That Angels gaze upon Divinity Assuming Humane Flesh th' Eternal Son Of the Eternal God is Man become But why this strange assumption or what end Equivolent could make him to descend So far beneath himself and equalize The Miracle of such an Enterprise Yet stay and wonder Undeserved Love To Man to Sinful Man did only move This stood from Heaven to Earth and all to win And rescue Lost and Fallen Man from Sin And Guilt and Death and Hell and reinstall Him in that Happiness lost by his fall And greater everlastingly to dwell In Blessedness so that thou canst not tell Which of the two the greater Wonder prove Thy Saviour's Incarnation or his Love But both conclude thou dost not give but pay A Debt in the observation of this day Another WHen that great Lamp of Heaven the glorious Sun Had touched his Southern period and begun To leave the Winter Tropick and to climb The Zodiacks ascending Signs that Time The brighter Sun of Righteousness did choose His beams of Light and Glory to disclose To our dark lower World and by those Rayes To chace our Darkness and to clear our Days And lest the Glorious and Resplendant Light Of his Eternal Beam might be too bright For Mortals Eyes to gaye upon he shrouds And cloaths his fiery Pillar with the Clouds Of Humane Flesh that in that dress he may Converse with Men acquaint them with the way To Life and Glory shew his Fathers Mind Concerning them how bountiful and kind His Thoughts were to them what they might expect From him in the observation of neglect Of what he did require and then he Seal'd With his Dear Blood the Truth he had Reveal'd FINIS