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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25294	The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian catechisme in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy laborer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...	Ames, William, 1576-1633.	1659 (1659)	Wing A3003; ESTC R6622	173,739	322

Precept The thirty eighth Lords day On Exod. 20. 8 9 10 11. Verse 8. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy 9. Six dayes shalt thou labour and do all thy work 10. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy Gods in it thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy son nor thy daughter thy man-servant nor thy maid-servant nor thy cattel nor thy stranger that is within thy gates 11 For in six dayes the LORD made heaven and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day Wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it THis fourth command which is about the time of more solemn worship is explicated 1. generally vers 8. Remember c. 2. speciall vers 9 10. that this is the seventh or one of seven whereunto is adjoyned the duty about keeping this day This duty consists of two parts to wit of rest and of the Sanctification of that rest the rest is a ceasing from all our workes and is illustrated from its causes by a distribuition neither thou nor thy son c. The sanctifying of this rest is consecrating or holy application of it to Gods worship And this sentence is not onely proposed but also confirmed and that with a double reason whereof 1. Is taken from a tacit comparison of the greater God hath promised us six dayes for our works and therefore by very good right and reason he may challenge the seventh to himself to be consecrated to his worship ●… Reason is taken from the exemplar cause because God by his own example of resting on the seventh day went before us as it were to give us a coppy to follow 3 Reason is from the efficient that is Gods institution or appointment which consisteth of two parts sanctifying of it and blessing it The sanctifying of it was the separating of this day from a worldly use to an holy The blessing of it was the promise to blesse them that rightly blesse this day Doct. 1. Certaine times are both privately and publickly to be appointed and set apart for more solemn worship This is understood in the command by that Synecdoche that names the special for the general Those times in general are due unto publick worship which are most agreeable to the societies in which we live And to the private exercises of godliness by night order some part of the morning and of the evening time is due and this is alwayes the practice of the Prophets and Apostles approved in Scripture and proposed unto us as an example to be followed Reas. 1. Because we ought to have this care that we orderly and decently worship God which cannot be without setting apart such a certaine time 2. Because our vanities and straglingnes of mind and forgetfulness about spirituall duties requires of us the help of such an ordinance as this 3. Because these appointed times keep us from many sins while in our thoughts we are either preparing our selves for these exercises or else keep still the fresh remembrance and power of them in our memories Use is of Reproofe against their negligence who though they professe themselves to be worshippers of God yet can scarce finde any time to give God the worship that is due to him Doct. 2. That one day of seven be holily observed is of morall and perpetuall duty as with us the Lords Day Reas. 1. Because this is expresly commanded in this morall law as spoken immediatly by God himself together with the other commands and written by his own finger on tables of stone as they were which things were onely proper to the morall law Reas. 2. Because it was thus ordain'd from the beginning of the Creation Reas. 3. Because it is never lesse necessary that some seventh day be observed than it was at the first institution And that the Lords day or first of the week or seventh is now by Divine authority appointed to us that it be holily kept appeareth 1. From the ground and reason of the change because as God from the beginning appointed the seventh day of the week or septenary circuit of dayes for his rest from Creating of things So Christ appointed the first of the week or of the seventh days of ordinary recourse because on that day he rested from his penall and afflictious labours of his humiliation or emptying himself whereby he restored and created the world as it were new again unto a better condition than it had lost 2. By the frequent apparitions of Christ in the convention of his Disciples on this day 3. From the sending and shedding abroad of the Holy-ghost on this day 4. By the practise of the Apostles 5. By Apostolike constitution 1 Cor 16. 6 From the very title and name of the Lords day that it hath in the New Testament 7. From the rigorous observation of this day in the Primitive Church by occasion whereof they were accounted worshippers of the sun because this first day of the week was by Heathens attributed to the Planet of the Sun as the rest were to the rest of the Planets Use Is of Exhortation that out of conscience towards God and obedience to this command we have a care of observing the Lords day Doct. 3. One part of our duty is that on the Lords day we cease from all our own works It is gathered from the Text In six dayes shalt thou doe all thy work but on the seventh day thou shal●… doe no work c. That is no work that is thme Now that work is said to be our work which neither directly belongs to the worship of God nor yet is otherways imposed upon us by any necessity from God but is chosen by our selves for some humane or worldly end Now such are 1. All our common and mer●…enary works 2 All things that call away our mind from that intention that is required unto the worship of God on that day though otherwaies they be not servile Yet such things are not forbidden as either belong unto common honesty or are of a very urgent and not of a made necessity of our own The reason of this rest is that we may be at convenient leisure for divine worship For worldly businesses do in divers wayes withstand this more solemn worship of God Reas. 1. Because the very external acts of both are for the most part such as that they cannot consist or stand together at one time Reas. 2. Because the minde being distracted with such worldly businesse cannot compose or settle it self in good order to perform solemn worship to God as it ought Reas. 3. Because the taste and savour and power of holy exercises is impaired and dulled at least or blunted by mixture of such things with them which in comparison should be but vile to them Use Is of Reproof of such as easily break the rest of this day either by their ordinary and vulgar occupations or with merchandizes or with sports or plays or