OFFICES OF DEVOTION,

DAILY AND OCCASIONAL;

IN

TWO PARTS.

PART II.

OCCASIONAL OFFICES.

I. OFFICE OF Private DEVOTION FOR THE LORD'S DAY: with a Preparative to its Public Observance.

II. OFFICE OF PENITENCE AND HUMILIATION.

III. OFFICE FOR THE HOLY COMMUNION.

OF

PRIVATE DEVOTION

FOR THE

LORD'S-DAY.

IN TWO SECTIONS.

SECT. 1. ON the LORD'S DAY: with a Preparative for its devout Observance both in Public and in Private.

SECT. 2. Private DEVOTIONS for the MORNing, Afternoon, and EVENING of the LORD'S DAY.

SECTION I.

On THE LORD'S DAY: with a PREPARATIVE for its DEVOUT OBSERVANCE both in Public and in Private.

Preliminary instructions concerning the observance of the Lord's day.

The duty of devoutly observing the Christian Sabbath, or Lord's Day, is most strongly enforced by the following considerations, drawn from holy Scripture and the practice of the primitive Church,

viz.

That God, the Maker of all things, instituted

a weekly Sabbath, and commanded one day in seven to be kept holy in memory of the creation; p. 266.

That Christ, the Saviour of the world, on the first day of the week, finished the work of Redemption by His resurrection from the dead, and that the first day (from thenceforth called the Lord's Day), was, in conformity with the doctrine and practice of the Apostles, religiously observed by the primitive Church; p. 267-270.

God's institution of a weekly Sabbath &c.

On the seventh day God ended His work which He had made: And He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because that in it He had rested from all His work, which God created and made ".

Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy".

Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God, in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy b Exod. xx. 8.

a Gen. ii. 2, 3.