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CHAP. XXXV. Examples of Gods judgements upon Sabbath-breakers.
The command of the Sabbath hath a special Me∣mento, or Remember prefixed unto it: that by timely thinking of it, we might lay aside our worldly businesse, and get our hearts into an holy array, and readinesse for entertainment of God into them. It is the market-day of the soul, wherein the Lord useth to meet his people to dispense his blessings, and graces in, and by his Ordinances, to those which humbly, and reverently attend upon him therein. The carefull san∣ctification of it keeps up the power of godlinesse in our hearts, and lives. And if worldly labour is unlawfull upon that day, much more are carnal delights, and pa∣stimes: Melius arare, quàm saltare in Sabbato: It is better to plow then to dance on the Sabbath, was St. Austines judgement: and when men neglect to punish the profanation of it, the Lord usually takes the sword into his own hand, and by visible judgements plagues the profaners of it: as will further appeare by these Ex∣amples following.
Sabbath instituted, Gen. 2. 3.
Called holy, Exod. 16. 23. & 31. 14. Nehem. 9. 14. Isa. 58. 13.
The Lords day, Rev. 1. 10.
The first day of the week.
This name is given to rhe seventh day, Exod. 21. 10. & 31. 15. Lev. 23. 3. Deut. 5. 14.
To the tenth day, in the seventh moneth, Lev. 16. 29. 31. & 23. 27, 32. Num. 29. 7.