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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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
A88550	The Lord's-day to be kept holy Asserted in a familiar conference betwixt two friends about the unlawfulness of exercising their trades or ordinary callings on that day. Published for the use of ignorant people, to prevent the prophanation of that holy day. Licens'd, July 19. 1694. Edward Cooke·		1694 (1694)	Wing L3060C; ESTC R224912	8,431	16

THE Lord's-Day TO BE KEPT HOLY Asserted in a Familiar Conference BETWIXT TWO FRIENDS About the Unlawfulness of Exercising their Trades or Ordinary Callings on that Day Published for the Use of Ignorant People to prevent the Prophanation of that Holy Day LICENS'D July 19. 1694. Edward Cooke LONDON Printed for William Marshal at the Bible in Newgate-street 1694. THE LORD's-DAY TO BE KEPT HOLY c. ●… SIR A good Morning to you How do you do to day I have made bold to visit you this Morning hoping I have not broke the ●…ds of our Friendship in my Reproof last Night ●…he exercising of your Trade on the Lord's-Day ●…ed I was a little concern'd our Dispute hapned so 〈◊〉 last Night that we could not come to a Conclu●… which occasions my coming this Morning ●… Mr. B. I am glad to see you this Morning with ●…y heart and for my part I am so far from break●…e Bonds of Friendship with you that I heartily 〈◊〉 you for your mild Reproof though I cannot be ●…our mind nor think it so great a Sin as you 〈◊〉 of for was I convinced it is a Sin I would 〈◊〉 exercising my Trade on that day for the ●…e ●… Truly Mr. S. I think our heavenly Father hath ●…ough to convince you and I that it is a Sin in these words Remember thou keep Holy the Sabbat●… Because it was commanded by God to Adam i●… Innocency and if it was necessary for our fir●… rents to have and keep a Sabbath day to serve G●… their state of Perfection much more need thei●…●…sterity to keep the Lord's-day in this state of Co●…tion And seeing that God himself keeps this 〈◊〉 Holy How can that Man be Holy that doth w●… profane it by following his ordinary Calli●… Trade on that day Besides You see that God 〈◊〉 placed this Commandment in the middle of the 〈◊〉 Tables with a watch-word of solemn preparatio●… it Remember that thou keep Holy the Sabbath-day if this was to be kept above all the rest because 〈◊〉 keeping of it is the best help to the keeping a●… rest S. Mr. B. In all this you say very well but l●… tell you That Christ is Lord of the Sabbath and 〈◊〉 remitted the rigor of Moses's Law for it 's said 〈◊〉 Sabbath was made for Man B. In this Mr. S. you make for me and no●… your self 't is true indeed The Sabbath was m●… Man But not to follow his Trade or spen●… time in Tipling at Alehouses or Taverns It 〈◊〉 made for Man to buy the Bread of Heaven and 〈◊〉 Water of Life 't is a Market day for our Soul 〈◊〉 we may buy the Food of Angels the Wine o●… Sacrament and the Milk of the Word of Go●… feed our Souls which is to be had without 〈◊〉 and without price And as you say Christ is Lo●… the Sabbath which ought to make us admire the ●…derful work of our Redemption he being Lo●… ●… Day we ought to spend our Time in his Service ●…d keep the Day to him who rose on this Day from ●…e Dead that we may raise our Minds and Souls to ●…wness of Life and make all our Works spiritual 〈◊〉 saith the Lord by the Prophet Isa 58. the 13th●…d 14th verses And call the Sabbath a delight the ●…y of the Lord honourable and shalt honour him not 〈◊〉 thine own ways nor finding thine own pleasure 〈◊〉 speaking thine own words Then shalt thou delight 〈◊〉 self in the Lord and I will cause thee to ride ●…on the high places of the earth and feed thee with the ●…ritage of Jacob thy father for the mouth of the ●…rd hath spoken it And I think I may say God hath writ it over and ●ver again with his own Fingers in Tables of Stone ●o signify his Authority and Perpetuity of it for all ●…at God wrote were moral and perpetual Command●…nts and these are reckoned Ten in number if this ●ere taken away by Christ or was now but an abro●…ed Ceremony then there would be but Nine Com●andments But to end this Controversy Christ pro●esseth in Matth. 5.17 That he came not to destroy the ●oral Law but as the Learned Dr. Hammond para●…aseth upon it to repair and make up whatsoever ●…s any ways wanting insomuch that our Saviour 〈◊〉 again in the 19th verse Whosoever therefore 〈◊〉 break one of these least Commandments and shall 〈◊〉 men so he shall be called the least in the Kingdom of ●…ven Or be despised and rejected by God in ●…e day of Judgment according to the said Para●…rase S. Indeed Mr B. you have almost convinced me ●ut if I should leave off Trading on this day others ●ill not and so I shall lose my Customers it being so much practised or else I would leave off fo●… future B. I am glad Mr. S. to hear this ingenuous C●…fession from you but am sorry you should mistr●… God's Providence when it is in him we live and mo●… and have all our Being for let me tell you plain●… that this will avail but little in the last day we m●… not answer there when God calls us to account fo●… the breach of this day that we feared losing o●… Trade or did it to get a Livelihood this will not ●…cuse the breaking of the Commandments And 〈◊〉 others will do it that will be no Excuse for me 〈◊〉 if Ten thousand break a Commandment that w●… not give me a Dispensation and make me guiltles●… others doing of it is no Argument that it is no S●… therefore that must not be my Rule to go by w●… am obliged by my Baptismal Vow to fight again●… the World and all appearance of Evil. Where Go●… commands it is my Duty to obey and not fear w●… the world will say or the losing my Trade b●… do my Duty to him and leave the Event to h●… Providence as Abraham did in the offering 〈◊〉 his Son and I think it will not be amiss to she● you an Instance of God's Providence in such a Case a● yours is It was to a Friend of mine some time since I think it not proper to mention his Name he was a Baker by Trade but ever thought it unlawful to heat his Oven on the Lord's-day so that he did not do it and being importuned by several to heat it he would not yield but went to some pious and learned Divines to know whether it was Lawful or no they told him it was not except in Cases of Necessity but neither he nor they thought it needful for him or his Servants to work on that day to bake Puddings or Bread since it was so plain a Breach of the Fourth Commandment The Baker being a good Man did not raise these silly Objections of losing his Trade which you and other Men seem to do he loved to discharge his Duty to God and in so doing left the Event to his Providence And tho some of his Customers left him because he would not bake Puddings or sell Bread on