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lord_n	church_n	day_n	sabbath_n	20,024	5	9.8526	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44432	A blow at profaneness in a description and a rebuke of it, taken out of the right reverend Bishop Hopkins exposition of the Ten Commandments.	Hopkins, Ezekiel, 1634-1690.	1692 (1692)	Wing H2728A; ESTC R218440	4,089	12

A BLOW AT Profaneness In a Description and a Rebuke of it taken out of the Right Reverend Bishop Hopkins Exposition of the Ten Commandments PRofaneness is the slighting and neglecting of things Holy and Sacred Whosoever is guilty of this let his outward Demeanor in the World be as fair and as plausible as Morality and Hypocrisie can adorn it yet he is a Profane Person The Spiritual Sacred things are First God in his Nature and Essence Whom we Profane when we entertain any Blasphemous or Unworthy Thoughts of Him Secondly God in his Name Which we Profane when we rashly in our trivial Discourses boult out that great and terrible Name at which all the Powers of Heaven and Hell tremble It doth sadly fore-bode the growing Profaneness of the next Age that Children be Taught or Suffered to call upon God in their Play before they be taught to call on him in their Prayers Thirdly God in his Attributes Which we Profane when our Affections or Actions are opposite or unsuitable e. g. Our Vnholiness profaneth his Holiness Our Despondence profaneth his Omnipotence Our Hypocrisie profaneth his Omniscience Our Despair profaneth his Mercy Our Presumption profaneth his Justice Our sinful Policy profaneth his Wisdom Our Security notwithstanding his Threatnings and our Slothfulness notwithstanding his Promises do profane his Truth Every Sin is a kind of Profaneness a Contempt of the Excellencies of God How much more that which is sinned for nothing and defieth his Wrath and Justice without a Temptation What should tempt the Impious Buffoon to deride Religion Travest the Holy Scriptures And turn whatsoever is Sacred and Venerable into Burlesque and Drollery And Fourthly The Time God hath set apart and Consecrated for his Service Unto the holy observance whereof God hath condescended to use three cogent Arguments viz. 1. His own Example in Resting on it 2. The Liberal portion of Time that He hath allowed us for the Affairs of this present Life 3. The Dedication of this day unto his immediate Service Vid. p. 207. But we profane it when we do not Rest from the common works of our ordinary Callings And do not diligently and conscientiously attend upon all God's Ordinances appointed to be performed on this day And that whether in Publick Private or Secret The Day is not done when the Church dissolves The whole of it is Holy to the Lord. Walks and Visits are not to be the Evening Work of the Sabbath but holy and spiritual Conferences Those who have Families to look after be best employed in seeing them spend the vacant time of the Sabbath in Holy Exercises Sc. Reading the Scripture giving an account what Truths they have been taught joyning with them in Praises and Prayer unto God In all of these in their Courses and Order till Night calls for Repose Fifthly The Ordinances of Jesus Christ Which we profane when we Neglect or are Remiss in our attendance upon them Some particular Characters of a Profane Person here follow First He is a Profane Person that thinks and speaks but slightly of Religion Religion our chiefest Excellency the Crown of our Beings But have we not many who deride Piety and make a scoff of Religion Who take up their Religion by Chance never examining it Thinking that any may suffice whatever it be Secretly despising the holiness and strictness of others thinking they make more ado to get to Heaven than needs But indeed they are not too precise but these are too Profane who contemn Religion as unnecessary and superfluous Secondly He is a Profane Person who neglects the Publick Worship of God when he hath opportunity and ability to attend it Gods special Presence is in two places Heaven and the Church Thirdly He is a Profane Person who neglects the performance of Religious Duties in private Every House ought to be a Temple Dedicated to God And every Master ought to be a Priest to offer to God the daily Sacrifice of Prayers and Praises Such Profane Families as those which are without them God ranks with Infidels and Heathens and devotes them to the same common Destruction In the Morning Prayer is the Key that opens to us the Treasury of Gods Mercies and Blessings In the Evening it is the Key that shuts us up safe under his Protection and Safeguard Excuses are vain and cannot take off your Obligation Are you Ignorant Many are the helps that God hath provided you Are you incumbred with your Worldly Affairs The weightier they are the more need you have to ask Counsel and Direction of God Are you Bashful and Modest Alas Be ashamed to Sin be ashamed to Talk Loosly be ashamed to Neglect thy Duty before thy Family but be not ashamed to Pray and do thy Duty Our Saviour hath told us Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful Generation of him also shall the Son of Man be ashamed when he cometh in the Glory of his Father with the Holy Angels Mark 8.38 What will become of them who are ashamed of their Duty Fourthly He is a Profane Person that performs Holy Duties slightly and superficially Our whole Hearts must go into our Holy Duties And the strength and vigor of our Spirits must diffuse themselves into every part of them to animate and quicken them Sacrifices of old were commanded to be offered up with Fire And no other Fire could sanctifie them but that which shot it self down from Heaven The which was ever after to be kept burning for that use Our Christian Sacrifices of Praise and Prayer must be offered with Fire and that Fire must be darted down from Heaven The Celestial Flame of Zeal and Love which comes from Heaven and hath a natural Tendency to carry up our Hearts and Souls thither But indeed commonly our Duties are either offered up with strange unhallowed Fire some unruly Passion of Hatred Self-love and Pride Or else they are very Cold and Heartless Our Prayers are dull and yawning and drop over our Lips without any Spirit or Life in them Fifthly He is a Profane Person that performs Holy Duties for Worldly Ends and Advantages For what greater contempt of God can there be than to make his service truckle under base Designs A Hypocrite is the most profane Wretch that Lives He entitles the Holy God unto the Wickedness he commits and makes God the Patron of his Sin And the Wound that Religion receives from Hypocrites is far more dangerous than that which open Sinners inflict upon it When he that speaks Scripture lives Devilism this tempts Men to think that all Religion is but Mockery Sixthly He is a Profane Person who makes what God hath Sanctified Common and Vnhallowed And have we not many such profane Persons Many that abuse the Holy and Reverend Name of God about frivolous matters Who make mention of him in their idle Chat but are Mute and Dumb when any thing should be spoke to his Praise There are but two