166 .· The fourtk qommdf!dt,mtnt. , ·. the Sermon? let me · loo~e to.that,myfelfe, noneother b to at\(were for me~ Nay~but,ifth~Y, ~~e G~ds fe~arits~ and ,·you Gods feruai~ts, 'your mafler~ 'hi~edyou to d9e Gods worke~· and in theLord to doe thei'r worke: therefore this is apro– phaneanfwer,and thefe be ill feruants.And if the gouernors fuffer them thus to finn,e,theyma~~ it their .own finne: and therfore God.hath g,iuen them afpecia.U charge,andput au– thoritie into their hands to reHfaine them. But much more wretched are they that will runneabroad to wickedncHe,or to dauncing, eo fwilling, to wantonneffe,&c. making that their Sabbath daics wor~e, which is vnlawfi.&ll at any time: to plow, and to cart, b~e things lawfull in fit time; but to ~ance,and foUow wantonn~ffe is naught cueryday: ·mmh more abominable therefore vpon thle ~ordsday.Ther~fore, fuch feruanu muft by force bee conHrained not to violate ,Gods Sabbath, or, if no meanes will ferue, aChrHHan ma· fier mufi e?Cpell them,and not fufter his houfe to bepeflere.d with fuch open rebels againtl God. Thus much f0r the ~uties ofGouernours)to thofe,oftheirownefamilie: now the Lord goeth further, to Chew how MagHl:rates mufi deale with menofanother religion : faying ; · . Nor theftranger that Hwithin thyg4tes. '""' HEre he lheweth, that, if a flrailger come within ouriu– rifdiction th_at areChi:Hlians, thoughwe cannot com– mand him to come to the exercifes ofreligion, yet the Ma. gHhate muH not fuffer him to doe any publike work>te pol... lute theSabbat~. For, by t~Jgates.here is meant,within thy 'Doflt. liberties. Hepcethen, in that the -Magillrate mufl Iooke to forrii1ers, this generall doClrinemay bee gathered,that it is our dutie__,being ChrHHans, not onely tokcepe theSabbath our felues_, and to looke to thofe that arebeJ~nging tovs in , Rc:~ar4 familieJbut fo farre as we can~eu~n to flrangers, or to anyo· ,· h)ad!;::~ thcr., Arid this is ti:lat which is cornmended in Ne~emit~h, · ' ftrangc:rs _ thao/Vhen heathen men that knewnot God, nor ~ared for Jhal not O· , h S bb I . · · h I f: I h S bb .h ' penly vio- .t e ·a at 1, came· wtt ""arcs to eru a emon t e a at. hre the day, he lhut the gates againfl them, and told them, that 1f ~~:.~~~~~. they 'did fo a'uimore,he would layhands vpon them• .And ~ -
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