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“The Sabbath is God’s market-day for the week’s provision…”

Dennison quotes Puritan Lewis Bayly:

The Sabbath day is God’s market-day for the week’s provision, wherein He will have us to come unto him, and buy of him without silver or money, the bread of angels, and water of life, the wine of the Sacraments, and milk of the Word to feed our souls; tried gold, to enrich our faith: precious eye-salve, to heal our spiritual blindness; and the white rainment of Christ’s righteousness, to cover our filthy nakedness.

-James Dennison, The Market Day of the Soul, pp. 63-64 (updated language added)

One thing you can’t escape if you study the views of the Puritans on the Sabbath is that it was not a day of inactivity (rest and inactivity are not necessarily the same thing). Rather, it was a day of a different sort of activity – activity set apart for the worship and service of God in special connection to public worship.

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