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Time is nothing but the inveterate error that <add>the best</add> God<lb/> | <head>SABBATH. Pastimes</head> | ||
way of pleasing God, is to do what is < | |||
<p>Time is nothing but the inveterate error that <add>the best</add> God<lb/> | |||
way of pleasing God, is to do what is <unclear>most</unclear> <add>un-</add>pleasing<lb/> | |||
or abstain from what is most pleasing to ourselves<lb/> | |||
that can account for the notion that <add>has</add> obtained<lb/> | |||
<add>so long that it wears off more & more every day.</add> | |||
of the unlawfulness of many Pastimes on the <lb/> | |||
Sabbath-Day. Not a syllable to countenance <lb/> | |||
this, is to be met with in the Gospel — The <lb/> | |||
Law given to the Jews indeed enjoys the abstinence <lb/> | |||
from the ordinary labor: it appoints that day for a day <lb/> | |||
<add>of rest.</add> So that if ever there was a point left indifferent <lb/> | |||
by Religion, it is this. </p> | |||
<p>Even granting the propriety <add>duty <add>is to be in strictness + duty</add></add> to fill up the whole <lb/> | |||
day by the exercises of devotion; still <add>no reason</add> it must be <lb/> | |||
<add>can be shown why</add> allowed that <del>any</del> all <gap/> employments that <lb/> | |||
do not come within that description, are upon <lb/> | |||
a level. No reason can be shown why that duty <lb/> | |||
is more violated by walking after a ball, than by <lb/> | |||
walking about without one. Why by assisting at <lb/> | |||
a moral representation than at the promiscuous </p> | |||
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SABBATH. Pastimes
Time is nothing but the inveterate error that the best God
way of pleasing God, is to do what is most un-pleasing
or abstain from what is most pleasing to ourselves
that can account for the notion that has obtained
so long that it wears off more & more every day.
of the unlawfulness of many Pastimes on the
Sabbath-Day. Not a syllable to countenance
this, is to be met with in the Gospel — The
Law given to the Jews indeed enjoys the abstinence
from the ordinary labor: it appoints that day for a day
of rest. So that if ever there was a point left indifferent
by Religion, it is this.
Even granting the propriety duty <add>is to be in strictness + duty</add> to fill up the whole
day by the exercises of devotion; still no reason it must be
can be shown why allowed that any all employments that
do not come within that description, are upon
a level. No reason can be shown why that duty
is more violated by walking after a ball, than by
walking about without one. Why by assisting at
a moral representation than at the promiscuous
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