REMEMBER. We are too apt all over to forget our duty; wordlings especially in the pursuit of their earth∣ly concernments, would scarce make a stop at the Sabbath, and therefore this Command summons them with a particular Alarum; a word of much weight, in the Hebrew Idiom, where
Solomons gate, or, An entrance into the church being a familiar explanation of the grounds of religion conteined in the fowr [sic] heads of catechism, viz. the Lords prayer, the Apostles creed, the Ten commandments, the sacraments / fitted to vulgar understanding by A.L.
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- Solomons gate, or, An entrance into the church being a familiar explanation of the grounds of religion conteined in the fowr [sic] heads of catechism, viz. the Lords prayer, the Apostles creed, the Ten commandments, the sacraments / fitted to vulgar understanding by A.L.
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- Littleton, Adam, 1627-1694.
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- London :: Printed by R. Daniel,
- 1662.
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"Solomons gate, or, An entrance into the church being a familiar explanation of the grounds of religion conteined in the fowr [sic] heads of catechism, viz. the Lords prayer, the Apostles creed, the Ten commandments, the sacraments / fitted to vulgar understanding by A.L." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A48737.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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ther Verb should be twice repeated, Remember to remember; i.e. be sure by all means to remember; and denotes the former old custom of keeping the Sabbath, even from the beginning of the world, and therefore presents it here as an ancient institution, to be re∣membred. And it quickens our care, not only for the observation of the day when it comes, but for our prepa∣ration for it, before it comes; we must think of it all the week afore hand, and provide for it, that nothing may divert us from the celebration of it.
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〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Ellipsis potiùs Imperativí. quàm Enallage In••in. pro Imp. Recordando re cordare.