day's journey, provided it be for Sabbath ends. In brief, all pains or labour that our station and condition in this world, that our troubles which may befal us, or any thing else, make necessary, as that without which we cannot enjoy the solemn ends and uses of this holy day of rest, are no way inconsistent with the due observance of it. It may be the lot of one man to take so much pains, and to travel so far for, and in the due celebration of the Lord's day, as if another should do the like without his occasions and circumstances, it would be a profanation of it.

4. Labour in works of charity and necessity, such as are to visit the sick, to relieve the poor, to help the distressed, to relieve or assist creatures ready to perish, to supply cattle with necessary food, is allowed by all, and hath been by many spoken unto.

5. For sports and such like recreations, and their use on this day, I refer the reader to laws of sundry emperors and nations concerning them. See of Constant. leg. omnes cap. de Feriis.. Theodosius and Arcadius, ibid. and of Leo and Authemius in the same place of the Code; of Charles the Great, Capitular, lib. 1. cap. 81. lib. 5. cap. 188. The sum of them all is contained in that exhortation which Ephrem Syrus expresseth in his Serm. de diebus Festis. Festivitates Dominicas honorare studiose contendite, celebrantes eas non panegyrice, sed divine; non mundane, sed spiritualiter; non instar Gentilium, sed Christianorum. Quare non portarum frontes coronemus; non choreas ducamus, non chorum exornemus; non tibiis et citharis auditum effæminemus, non mollibus vestibus induamur, nec cingulis undique auro radiantibus cingamur; non comessationibus et ebrietatibus dediti simus, verum ista relinquamus eis quorum Deus venter est, et gloria in confusione ipsorum.

§ 20. For private duties, both personal and domestic, they are either antecedent or consequent to the solemn public worship, as usually for time it is celebrated amongst us. These consisting in the known religious exercises of prayer, reading the Scripture, meditation, family instructions from the advantage of the public ordinances, they are to be recommended unto every one's conscience, ability and opportunity, as they shall strength and assistance for them.

Μονω τω Θεω δοξα.

END OF VOL. II.—AND OF THE EXERCITATIONS.

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