Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	jewish_a	sabbath_n	10,681	5	10.1354	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41441	The old religion demonstrated in its principles, and described in the life and practice thereof	Goodman, John, 1625 or 6-1690.	1684 (1684)	Wing G1111; ESTC R2856	107,253	396

ingenious persons consider of that passage of the Gospel Luke 11. 1. where in the first place we find our Saviour was at Prayers and that it was not secret Prayer but with his Disciples is more than probable since they were present at them and accordingly when he had concluded one of them asks him to instruct them how to pray Now if this be acknowledged then here is our Saviours Example for what we are discoursing of forasmuch as the Disciples with whom he was at Prayer were his Family But that which I observe further is they ask him to teach them to pray as John taught his Disciples that is to prescribe them a form wherein they who were his Family might join together as the Family or Disciples of John did or not only to pray severally or secretly but in Conjunction and Society and this our Saviour gratifies them in by prescribing to them the well-known and admirable form in which these two things are further remarkable to this purpose first that the Prayer is in the plural number which renders it far more probable that it was intended for a social office For though some other account may be given of his using that number yet nothing is so natural as this reason which I have intimated Secondly The very petitions themselves if they be considered will incline a man to think that though the Prayer was contrived with infinite wisdom to fit other purposes yet it was primarily intended for the use of a Family or Society especially such an one as this of our Saviours Disciples was but so much for that 2. The next instance of Family Duty is the sanctification of the Lords Day and other days and times set apart for his service As for the Lords Day though it be undoubtedly true that as the Jewish Sabbath which is our Saturday is not obliging to Christians at all so neither are we bound to observe any day with that Sabbatical nicety and strictness which for special reasons was required of that people yet that the first day of the Week or the Lords Day be observed piously and devoutly is recommended to us by the constant practice of the Christian Church And the sanctification of it principally consists in this that we make it a day peculiar for the offices of Piety and Devotion as other days are for common and secular affairs for though the business of Religion must be carried on every day of our lives and that be a profane day indeed in which God hath not some share allowed for his service yet as God hath not required that it be the whole work of those days but after a little of the time be consecrated to him the residue be applied to the common affairs of Life so on the Lords Day we are allowed to consult our infirmity to provide for necessity and to do works of humanity or mercy but the proper business of the day is Religion and to that the main of it must be applied And there is great reason for this namely by this interruption of the course of Worldly affairs in some measure to take our hearts off from them for we should hardly avoid sinking absolutely into the cares and business of this life if we went on in a continual course and were not obliged at certain intervals of time to retreat from them and betake our selves to things of another nature by which means also we begin to practise an Heavenly Sabbatism and inure our selves by degrees to those spiritual imployments which we are to enter upon and be everlastingly performing in another World Let therefore the pious man thus sanctify the Lords Day by applying it to holy uses that is besides publick worship to reading Meditation singing of Psalms and grave Discourses of Religion and let him according as he hath Warrant from the fourth Commandment oblige all those within his Gates to do so too and not only restrain his Family from common labours but from lightness and folly tipling and gossipping idle visits and impertinent talking of News and use his indeavour to ingage them to be as much in earnest about the service of God and their Souls on that day as they are about their business or pleasure on other days As for other holy days set apart by the appointment of the Church there is very good use to be made of them too for besides that the great Festivals are the ignorant mans Gospel and bring to his mind all the great passages of our Saviour and his Apostles it is certain also that God hath not so strictly tasked us to the labour of six days as that he will not be better pleased if we now and then apply some of them to his honour and make a sally towards Heaven but then the observation of these days is not to be made merely a relaxation from servile work nor much less a dispensation for looseness and profaneness but God must be served on them with greater diligence than can be ordinarily expected on other days And this is another branch of the pious mans duty in his Family 3. There is another thing I would mention in the third place amongst Family exercises which I do not call a necessary duty but would offer it to consideration whether it be not adviseable in some cases for the promotion of Family Piety that in every Family where it can be done some persons should be incouraged to take notes of the Sermons which are preached in the Church and repeat them at home forasmuch as this course would not only afford a very seasonable and excellent entertainment for the Family in the intervals of publick worship on the Lords Day but would also be very advantagious both to Minister and People For the Minister it would incourage him to study and to deliver weighty things when he saw his words were not likely to perish in the hearing and be lost in the air but be reviewed and considered of by which means one Sermon would be as good as two and might serve accordingly For the People it would put the most ordinary sort of them upon considering and indeavouring to remember and make something of that which is delivered to them when they observe that some of the ablest of the Congregation think it worth their pains to take so exact notice of it as to write it down at least they would be ashamed to snore and yawn when others are so intent and serious And as for the Family in which the repetition is made they would have further occasion to observe with what clearness and evidence the doctrine was inferred from the Text opportunity to weigh the arguments used to inforce it and be put upon making application of all to their own Consciences But I foresee several objections such as they are will be made against this it will be said this course is unfashionable and puritanical that experience hath discovered that writing after Sermons hath taught men to be conceited and captious and