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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85423	Dies Dominicus redivivus; or, The Lords Day enlivened or a treatise, as to discover the practical part of the evangelical Sabbath: so to recover the spiritual part of that pious practice to its primitive life: lamentably lost, in these last declining times. By Philip Goodvvin M.A. preacher of the Gospel, and pastour of the publike congregation at Watford in Hartford shire.	Goodwin, Philip, d. 1699.	1654 (1654)	Wing G1214; Thomason E1470_3; ESTC R208694	198,721	533

but are not towards God burning in affections they keep dayes and carry on duties in a spiritlesse way And for lack of such sparklings and springings of soul they are not in the Spirit on the Lords day 3. Pious men may possibly passe Sabbaths resting in Gods Ordinance without enjoying Gods presence God having made those heavenly creatures Sun Moon and Stars yet rested not till he had created man so man having used holy duties Word Sacraments and Prayer yet therein should not rest till he can attain God When the Jewes were gone out of Egypt and were in their way to Canaan God told them they should have his Angel to go before them but himself would not go with them which when they heard they all mourned and none would put on his Ornaments Exod. 33.2 3.4 Gods servants in Sabbaths should not be satisfied though they had the Ministery of Angels except God himself be present When Rebecca was in her journey to Abrahams house with his servants she rode on the Camel but she did not rest on the Camel when she saw Isaac who was to be her husband she lighted down and modestly met him Gen. 24.63 64. Jacob rejoyced to see the wagons his son Joseph had sent yet was not the seeing of them nor being in them that satisfied Jacob but thereby to go into Egypt and see and enjoy Joseph himself It becomes Christians to rejoyce when God gives them Ordinances to use yet is not the highest Ordinances they can have upon this holy day wherein they should rest contented except thereby they can come to some communion with God It is reported of Master Bradford the Martyr that he would never leave off in holy duties till he found therein somewhat of God as in prayer he would not give over till he had some intimation from God of his love in meditation till he had some manifestation of Gods presence quickening and quieting his heart Gods servants even upon Sabbath dayes when duties are most solemn and settled should not rest satisfied except God shewes upon them some token for good and seals upon their souls some impression of his presence which they may carry with them all the week The Church Cant. 3. being at a losse for her beloved she goes to the watchmen and enquires of them And 't was but a little said she t● at I passed from them but I found him whom my soul loveth We are not so far to passe Instruments and Ordinances as not to make use of them or attend in them but we are to passe them a little in respect of any relyance on them or resting in them As evil things unrepented of carry us from God so good things rested in keep us from God It is for Pharisees and Papists to rest in good works done Christians should rise higher and reach at a GOD in every good work at Christ a Saviour in every service of the Sabbath When Samuel was to anoint one of the family of Jesse to be King over Israel Jesse made seven of his sons to passe before the Prophet and as they passed one after another the Prophets word was This is not he Neither this he c. Then sayes Samuel Is there not yet another And Jesse said There remains yet the youngest and behold he keeps the sheep And Samuel said Send and fetch him for we will not sit down till he come hither And Jesse sent and brought in David Then sayes the Prophet This is he and he anointed him 1 Sam. 16. Thus upon a Sabbath when Instruments Ordinances Ministers Scriptures Prayers Sermons Sacraments and all passe one after another the souls of Gods Saints should secretly say Is there not yet another The Lord our righteousnesse we cannot sit down till he comes hither And when the Lord himself appears in an Ordinance each soul should say This this is he Some they sit down in Ordinances though no Christ comes in little or nothing of the Lord himself is seen and so their hearts rise not The Virgin Mary comming into the house where Elizabeth was she being with child the babe leaped in her womb and she was filled with the holy Ghost and said with a loud voice Whence is this that the mother of my Lord should come to me Luk 1. Now it was not so much the Mother of the Lord as the Lord in his Mother that made the child in Elizabeth leap 'T is not the Ministers of Christ nor the Ordinances of Christ but Christ in his Ministers and Christ in his Ordinances that makes the hearts of holy men to leap upon the Lords day Thus they are filled with the holy Ghost and fixed with the Spirit of God Now because Christians do not rise to a high minding the presence of Christ but rest in a low using the Ordinances of Christ they are not in the Spirit on the Lords day Use Exhortion Let this incite all Gods Saints to such a spiritual spending of the Gospel-Sabbath that upon this day they may be in the Spirit Two things 't is here meet to mark Viz. The matter whereof this is comprised and The motives whereby this is enforced Spiritually to spend the Lords day does comprise principally these two things viz. The influence of Gods Spirit with us and The concurrence of our spirits with God 1. The inflowings of Gods Spirit so as to work in a double way viz. Of Resistance And Assistance There being mighty oppositions against us we need the Spirit of God for their resisting and There being many imperfections about us we need the same Spirit for our assisting 1. The blessed Spirit upon the Sabbath to resist Satan and what he secretly suggests to damp the duties of the day Indeed the Divels design is not onely to dull us in but if possibly to drive us from this day in all the duties thereof And when he cannot keep off our bodies to carry away our hearts he comes oft like a flood a flood of water to hinder a flame of zeal Revel 12.15 And the Serpent cast out of ●is mouth water as a flood after the woman that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood When Satan sees that upon the Sabbath we will go out to the Ordinances of God to quench and carry away our hearts he then causes temptations to come as a flood viz. Both in abundance And with violence Against this the best helper is Gods holy Spirit Esay 59.19 VVhen the enemy shall come in like a flood the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him Thus ate the billowes beat back and the floods dryed up and Satans designs dashed and our souls upon the Sabbath set in a more hopeful way for Spiritual work 2. The Spirit of God upon the Sabbath to assist and help our infirmities Rom. 8.26 Our infirmities likewise the Spirit helpeth for we know not what to pray for as we ought but the Spirit it self makes intercession for us with groanes that cannot

be uttered 'T is not prayer nor any other part of Gods service upon the Sabbath that we can spiritualy perform except the Spirit assist The Spirit helpeth Or claspeth in with us together as the Greek word notes As when a businesse is too big a work too weighty for one others put to their helping hands lifting and labouring together The work of the Sabbath especially to be spirituall therein is above our abilities except the Spirit closes in and sets to his assisting hand service will be sleepy and souls will be dead As 't is said that the whole soul is in the whole body and the whole soul in every part of the body to animate and actuate all Thus the holy Spirit must be wholly in the whole body of Sabbath-businesse and whole in every particular duty that all may be active heavenly and lively Upon the Lords day Gods people need the help of Gods holy Spirit Both to transport them And to support them 1. The Spirit upon the Lords day to transport and carry them out in holy duties beyond ordinary formalities and their own abilities though in the week their wings have been wetted in the world yet upon the Sabbath they are made fit to fly and soar up to God Though upon this day Christ rose from the dead yet it was fourty dayes after he ascended into heaven But to a Christian through the Spirit as it is his resurrection day so it is his Ascension day As on this day he comes up from the dead So on this day he goes up unto God 2. The Spirit upon the Lords day to support and keep them up in holy and heavenly frames of heart That in Gods service they sink not Either through sinful inclinations Or through Satans temptations Good mens hearts are as Moses hands when they are lifted up they must be born up Ever since Adams fall mans natural motion is downward The soul that ascends will soon descend if Gods blessed Spirit does not bear it up This made David pray when he saw the people for the service of the Temple with their hands liberal and their hearts lively O Lord God sayes he keep this up for ever in the thoughts of the hearts of thy people c. And Satan he sets in to sink the soul down when it is highest in holy movings and heavenly mountings Matth. 4. we find when our Saviour was taken up into the holy City and s●t upon a pinacle of the Temple then Satan solicits him that if he were the Son of God he might cast himself down Such is Satans design when he sees Gods Saints taken up in holy service and set upon the pinacle in the practical part of holy Sabbaths then he privily puts in presently to pull them down but the Spirit helps and holds them up 2. There must be the close concurrings of our spirits with God or the Lords day cannot be spiritually spent Not our bodies barely but our very souls must so set in with God in Sabbath-service as Freely to stirre and Firmely to stand 1. To stirre freely with readinesse and willingnesse of mind moving about the businesse of Gods blessed day Though there seems difficulty in work and Though there is diversity of work Although some of the service of the Sabbath may seem difficult yet with a prompt and ready mind to move thereto and with all agility apt to act therein As some of the men that Mos●s sent to search Canaan they came back and their hearts sunk O say they The Cities a●e walled and the people are strong and we can never do the work But Caleb who had another spirit and was of a ready and resolute mind Come sayes he let us go up and take it at once Num. 13.30 Some are as awke to enter upon holy Sabbaths as upon walled Cities their hears shrink back and they say The service is too great they cannot do it whereas Christians of another spirit whose minds are bent upon Sabbath-businesse they say Come let us go up through God we shall do great things this day Yea to have a heart free and fit to move although the duties of the Lords day be divers viz. Works of piety works of charity Works together works asunder Sometimes lowly abasing our selves for sins committed Sometimes highly advancing God for good vouchsafed c. As a well-tuned instrument the strings are ready to stir upon a light touch to divers lessons which the Musician may play as he please one after another Thus to have a well-framed heart apt upon the Lords day to its divers duties prompt to pray swift to hear ready to distribute prepared to every good work 1 Tim. 2.21 Tit. 3.1 Yea to have a heart freely moving not onely about divers Ordinancts but about the same Ordinance To set in a way of work severall graces and To set the same grace several wayes a work As in prayer in hearing the Word in receiving the Sacrament in any one such service of the Sabbath to act up in the soul several graces Faith Hope Love Sincerity Humility Fervency c. To have the heart in a ready exercise of all these at the use of any Ordinance Yea such an Ordinance one of these is wherein the soul of a Christian is to exercise the same grace several wayes As in receiving the Supper of the Lord there is a manifold use of faith Faith here it is as an eye to see as a hand to take as a tongue to taste as a mouth to feed as the stomach to digest retein c. Thus when Gods Saints upon the Sabbath do not onely use sacred Ordinances but therein also exercise several and suitable graces yea and are active in their exercise so that their spirits are quick in co-working with the good Spirit of God then indeed do they Spiritually spend this holy day 2. To stand firmely when the Saints of God upon the Lords day as they labour to get their hearts up so they are loath to let them down all the day long Whereupon they strongly strive Rising to stand fast they may not fall and Falling to rise they may the faster stand 1. That rising their hearts may stand fast and not fall in holy duties while the day lasts As when General Joshua was in the heat of battel against the enemies of Israel having his spirit fixed he looks up to the firmiament saying Sun stand thou still upon Gibeon and the Sun stood still and hasted not to go down about a whole day So a Saint of God when he is in the heat of Sabbath-service his affections all on a flame he looks in and says to his soul O my soul now stand thou still Hold here and so the heart holds up and the soul stands still all the Lords day 2. That falling their hearts may rise again to a more fixed affectionate performance of all holy duties Prov. 24.16 The righteous falleth seven times a ●●y and ris●th again Seven times even upon

rest in Ordinances that therefore they are not upon the Lords Day in the Spirit This may be considered Both in respect of the Ordinances they use And in respect of their use of Ordinances 1. The Ordinances that some upon the Sabbath use are of a lower rank viz. Reading of Scriptures Hearing of Sermons and Prayer to God In these they rest and do not rise to duties of a higher sort viz. Sequestred Meditation Sacramental participation and Solemn congratulation These three duties are as Davids 3. Worthies that outwent all their fellowes 2. Sam. 23.23 In reading and hearing Gods Word truths are more transient but in meditation they are more stayed and established In the Word are rare things uttered and opened But in the Sacrament they are also sealed and settled In prayer to God we seek the supplying our wants and serving our present necessities c. But in prayses of God we set up Gods worth exalting his Bounty and Beauty In the Ministery of the Word God comes as it were down into the world to us In meditation we go as it were out of the world up to God Of Isaac 't is said he went into the field to meditate but of a Christian it may be said he goes out of the field viz. out of the world to meditate dilate and delight his thoughts upon God Of God he cannot take in so much by the hearing of the ear as he doth by the thoughts of his heart In the Word we hear discovered the Love of God by his voice In the Sacrament we see uncovered the Love of Christ in his Crosse herein the soul by a working faith walks into the wounds of Christ banquets upon his bruised body and bathes it self in his blessed blood By prayer we receive mercy from God By Praises we give glory to God Now 't is more excellent to give then to receive Prayer is the sole work of Saints militant on earth praises is also the work of Saints triumphant in Heaven As in an Orchard the ripest and sweetest fruit and that which is most pleasant to sight and taste is to be gathered from off the upper boughs of trees So the sweetest comforts of the Spirit that most refresh the heart and ravish the soules of Saints are to be found in these upper duties upon the Day of the Sabbath Now because Christians do not rise unto these higher performances but rest in those lower services therefore they are not in the Spirit upon the Lords Day 2. The use that some upon the Sabbath have of sacred Ordinances is onely in a lower way viz. so as that their hearts in holy duties Are heavy and sad Or lazie and dead And empty of God Thus they rest and do not rise to that higher way of using Gods holy Ordinances viz. so as in religious exercises to have their hearts Cheered Fixed and Filled with God First they perform the Service of the Sabbath all with sadded hearts in a lumpish way Their spirits bowed down with a burden of black apprehensions so as that all the Lords day long they have no list to lift up themselves Fishermen when upon the waters of the Sea they cast out their nets they not onely hang on lead but they put on cork that they may the better bear them up and bring them out whereas when Christians upon the duties of the Sabbath draw out their hearts having no cork of encouraging hope but all lead of desponding th●ughts and distrusting feares they cannot bear up their souls sink in the service of God Matth. 28.8 it is said of some good women that they went from Christs Sepulchre upon his Resurrection-day with fear and great joy but some Christians they come and go from Gods Ordinances upon the Lords Day with great fear but no joy so that when they should be in the triumphs of the Spirit th●●r spirits are filled with troubles T●● Sabbath it is the day whereon Christ came up from his Sepulchre in which before he lay dead and buried bu● the Sabbath 't is the day whereon some Christians go down into the Sepulchre of sorrowes and bury their soules under sad doubts in which graves of darknesse they rest when from them they ought to rise Upon the day of the Sabbath the soules of Gods Saints should send out sweet comforts as the conduits of a City that run with wine upon the day of some triumph Upon this day the minds of all good men should mount up into heaven and comfortably converse with God from morning to night drinking deep of those rivers of pleasure that are in Gods presence Now this Christians do not whose hearts are upon this day down in deep fears and sorrows 2. Gods Saints may sometimes transact the duties of the Sabbath with deadnesse of heart in a livelesse and luke-warm way Dead Sacrifices and Jewish Sabbaths suited but dead services and Christian Sabbaths do not accord Gospell-Sabbaths require living Sacrifices yea a lively soul in every service As the true mother in the Kings could not be content with a dead child in her bosome no more should a true Christian be satisfied with a dead heart in holy duty especially upon the Lords Day The day wherein deadnesse should be turn'd into life weaknesse into strength and earthly coldnesse into heavenly heatings For want of this Sabbaths passe with small profit The day may be long yet little work done Souldiers who meet and muster upon a training day and di●charge their Muskets with●ut bullet or shot they make a noise but no execution is done Christians meet and gather on the Sabbath day discharge their duties without fe●vour and heat some noise is made but little work wrought no rising of heart no ascending of soul no being in the Spi●it on the Lords Day As Christians should not rest in livelesse low or weak graces but labour to enliven and still more to strengthen those divine qualities so they should not rest in livelesse low and flat performances but endeavour to grow to greater life warmth and strength in all holy duties Not sloathful in businesse but fervent in Spirit serving the Lord Rom. 12. For want of fervency of Spirit there is so much sloathfulnesse in the businesse of Gods blessed Day Fervency or zeal is to duty as the soul to the body without which all is but a cold carcase Zeal is to the Soule as oyl to the wheele whence it goes quick and is agil in all the waies of Gods worship This is that Pillar of fire which as it must go along with us in the night of our suffering so in the day of our service Service and soul and all dies as this decayes As upon the wasting of radicall heat the body growes into weaknesse sicknesse and death so in the soul of man and Service of God all languishes and declines as spiritual heat abates It is said of John the Baptist he was a burning and a shining light When Christians are before men shining in actions