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work_n	creation_n	day_n	sabbath_n	8,102	5	9.9122	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39775	The one necessary thing to be sought briefly touched in a four-fold dialogue upon some of the great and most concerning truths of practical religion.	Fleming, Robert, 1630-1694.; Fleming, Robert, 1660?-1716.	1679 (1679)	Wing F1283; ESTC R28632	47,023	70

should not press them once to be this length to know upon trial vvhat might be the certainty thereof and if such an advantage can be truely reached here as to make the poor mans life more Sweet and Comforting under all the toile of his hand than if he had the greatest estate of the earth 4 It may seeme strange what these can possibly reckon upon their Condition in being men as desireable above that of the beasts of the field who have so little either in hand or hope to be comforting to know only a sensual life with so small and almost indiscerneable advantage to satisfy the senses It is true many such entertain a hope of a blessedness to come whilst they are wholly strangers to a life of grace here But Oh! It is at such a rate that the Scripture of God must be false if theirs be true 5 How amazing also is it to see for what these perish and lose their immortal soul which is in it self a higher interest than the glory and riches of all the Monarchies in the Earth yea of more value than the Sun and Moon Yet as if this were but some triffle how easily do such hazard the same for the smallest gain yea it may be said are content to serve Satan withont the wages of visible pleasure and satisfaction which others have in the world 6 Yea how strange is it how many such whose trade and imployment lyes most at sea who thus have such peculiar enforcing Arguments to be serious about Religion yet are so visibly loose in their walk and strangers to a Christian life QU. VIII It is sure there are such of that imployment and I hope not a few whose being convincingly serious in the things of God with a Christian walk to the credit of the Gospel is beyond question But since what you have spoke as to many of these is too visibly manifest what are these pressing Motives and Arguguments that such whose calling lyes most on the Sea have more than others to take Religion deeply to heart ANSW You may judge what a pressing call such have to be in greatest earnest about their eternal state 1. Who are through most of their time so near a bordering with eternity in deaths often and their life hanging so frequently in suspence before their eyes 2. Such who cannot but have their conscience oft struck with the sense of a God-Head by seeing his marvellous power shewed forth in the Depths so as it may be said they live and converse amongst wonders to see that great Body of the Sea how it is with such advantage made passable for Transport and Commerce the regular course of its ebbbings and flowings with the singular use and subserviency of the tides how it is shut up also with gates and barres and hath its appointed bounds without which there could be no reason how a bank of sand could restraine the great Oceans breaking forth O! what a book is thus spread open for sea faring men to read and bring near their thoughts with wondering to Fear and Worship him whose voice is so known on the wighty waters who turnes the most impetuous storme into a calme at his pleasure which is so far above all hnmane reach causeth the swelling of an enraged sea in a moment to know his command and be still 3. What ought such to be who have not only been oft surprised with preventing mercy when they were not aware from dashing on some shelve or rock or falling in on a bank of sand and thus brought out of greatest hazard even before they were put in fear But have oft likewise been rescued from the very Jawes of present Death in that manner when no visible or ordinary means could ever have answered thereto Oh! Can such deliverance be so easily forgot and what were then their thoughts of entring into endless eternity and meeting grim death with such a surprise was it not then a matter of earnest to pray Or would you then have dared to break forth into an Oath yea what a blessed state were you then made to reckon those in who had been formerly serious about Religion and how soon may such a surprisal meet you again 4. What ought such to be and are accountable for who knowes how many thousands have been swallowed up in these devouring Depths and hears of such ordinary shipwracks whilst they are yet preserved Oh! Doth not this marvellous longsuffering and tenderness of the Lord have some serious voice Hath it yet never tended to melt your heart with sorrow and contrition for so sad a returne you have hitherto given to such forbearance 5. What solemne and express engagements are many if not most of such under and accountable for which their lips have uttered when trouble was upon them and when they were at the very brink of perishing that if some extraordinary cast of providence had been deferred but a very few moments longer they had been lost Now set me seriously ask what did you really intend Was it to deale deceitfully with the most High and be no more serious in the thoughts of this when ye were once at land If it be so how can you dare to pray and plead with the Holy Lord in a new Strait Oh! let me beseech you lay this to heart and that to make use of your present calmes at sea for making sure your eternal interest would help to make a sweet calme within on your soul when a storme arises 6. Let me but add this what advantage such have who have so clear an embleme of their life and condition here so frequently before them how thus they are under saill and moving to that port where once the anckor must be cast down never to be weighed again yea how there can be no safe reckoning to get safe to that blessed O blessed and desireable port of glory without knowing how their course lyes which from the Scripture is more infallibly clear than they can be by any Carte or Compass Let me but further add how strange it is to see some of these so far from under the aw and dread of God that they are not more concerned to put to sea and work on the Sabbath without any convincing necessity than on any other day QU. IX VVhat is there such a necessity for strict observance of the Sabbath as there is no warrantable liberty both for recreation and mens ordinary business after the publick worship is once past ANS I hope you will not dare to debate 1. That the Christian Sabbath hath by the holy Ghost that impress and authority put upon it of being the Lords day a day which is set a part and consecrat to him on a higher account than the first creation wherein God manifested in our nature did rest from all his works for the Redemption of his Church and from the new Creation and saw that all which he had done was very good that day never to be forgot