our Souls, as well as Bodies from the Slavery of Sin here, and eternal Damnation hereafter; upon which account, this Day was fanctify'd by our Saviour's Refurrection, and ordain'd by Him to be observ'd. And fome have thought, and not without good Reason, that this was the true feventh Day from the Creation; that as GOD rested from the Work of Creation, fo did Chrift from the Work of Redemption, upon this Day. III. How muft this Day be spent? The Word fanctified fignifies to fet apart. 1. You must lay afide all worldly Employment, Exod. xx. 8. Levit. xxiii. 2. Amos viii. 5. Nehem. xiii. 19. 2. And all carnal Pleasures, which impede your Service to GOD, Ifa. lviii. 13. 3. The whole Day is to be fet apart for fpiritual Employments. 1. For private Devotions, to rest in GOD, Ifa. Iviii. 13. 2. For publick Duties, S. Luk. iv. 16. for you find the Apostle did so. For this end, 1. Set your worldly Bufinefs in order, over-night. 2. So Toon as you awake, remember it is the Sabbath. 3. Endeavour by Prayer and Meditation, 4. Abfent not yourselves from the pub- 1. Prayer. 2. Reading. 3 Meditating and Examining your felves. 4. Conferring. Confider, 1. GOD hath given you fix Days, and fet apart but this One for Himself; do not rob Him of that, Ezek. xxiii. 38. 2. Confider the Judgments upon the Prophaners of it, Numb. xv. 33, 34. 3. There is a Bleffing promis'd to them that fanctify it, Isa. Ivi. 4. 2, 6, 7. This is the way to live, as if in 5. This is the way to celebrate an S. JOH S. JOH. XX. 29. Blessed are they that have not feen, and yet have believed. N this Hiftory is, IN 1. The Occafion, ver. 24, 25.. 2. The Narration, ver. 26. 3. Chrift's Reprehenfion of Thomas, ver. 27. He knew what Thomas faid, and caution'd him to be more complying for the future. 4. Thomas's Confeffion, ver. 28. Tñ ukù xHei σῶμα κατέχον, τῇ ἢ ψυχῇ Θεὸν καλενόεν, S. Chryfoft. Ἡ ἀπιςία το μαθητῶ ἡμετέρας πίςεως μήτηρ γεγένηται, Idem. Cum fuam exercuit folicitudinem, fidem omnium confirmavit, S. Aug. &c. 5. Our Saviour's Application, Blessed are they, I. They who have not feen, ought, however, to believe the Refurrection of Christ, S. Luk. xxiv. 25,26. 1. What Grounds have we to believe it? XX. 14. 2. Cleophas and another, S. Luk. xxiv. 13. 3. All the Eleven, but Thomas, S. Joh. xx. 19. 4. All the Eleven, none excepted, S. Joh. XX. 26. 5. S. James 5. S. James, 1 Cor. XV. 7. 6. Above goo at once, 1 Cor. xv. 6. 7. Again at the Sea of Tiberias, S. Joh, xxi. 1, &c. 8. Again, juft before His Afcenfion, S.Luk. xxiv. 36. Att. i. 3. When He eat and drank with them,and difcours'd, and reafon'd out of the Scriptures, S. Luk. xxiv. 44, 45, 46. Alt. x. 41. 9. S. Paul, 1 Cor. xv. 8. 3. All the Apostles attested it with their Blood,for ought appears,except S.John, who likewife expos'd himfelf upon this Account, as much as any of them; or if there be any other Exception, it is only of S. Jude. 1. S. James the Great, was flain with the the Sword, Alt. xii. 2. Eufeb. Hift. Ecc.l. 2. c. 8. l. 3. c. 5. & Suid. in voc. Ηρώδης. 2. S. Peter was crucified at Rome, by Nero, Eufeb. Hift. Eccl l. 3. c. 1. & Chronic. p. 162. Lact. Inftit. l. 4. c. 21. Tertull. de Prafcript. adv. Heref. c. 36. Scorpiac. c. 13. Sulpic. Sever. Hift. Sacr. 1.2. c.41. Lipf. de Cruce, 1. 3. c. 8. 3. S. Matthew preach'd in Ethiopia, and was most probably martyr'd at Naddaver, as Venantius Fortunatus, and from him, Baronius teftifies, Bar. Martyrol, ad diem Sept. 21. S. Andrew, at Patra in Achaia, by Order of the Proconful Ageas ( Baron. Martyrol. Nov. 30.) where he readily embraced his Crofs, or Tree, before he fuffer'd upon it. Chryfol. in S. Andr. Serm. 133. S. Bernard. in Declamat. clamat. in fine lib, de Duplice Martyrio, S. Cypr. afcript. p. 40. 5. S. Philip was fton'd to death at Hieras polis in Phrygia, vid. Eufeb. Hift. Ecel, 1.3. c. 31. 1. 5. c. 24. Chron. ann. 12 Claudii. However, Simeon Metaphraftes gives another Account of his Death, Lipf. de Cruce, l. 3. c. 8. & Baron. Martyrol, ad Maii 1. 6. S. Bartholomew was beaten with Clubs, and his Skin flead off, in Armenia, Baron. Martyrol. Aug. 25. 7. S. Thomas was flain with a Dart, or Lance, at Calamina, in India, fince call'd Malopur, and by the Porsugueze, Citta di S. Thoma, Maff. Hift. Indic. 1.2. p. 85. Niceph. Hift. Eccl. l. 2. C. 4. 8. S. James, Surnamed the Juft, was caft head-long from the Temple, but not being quite kill'd by the Fall, was fton'd by the Multitude, and had his Brains beat out with a Club, Eufeb. Hift. Eccl. l. 2. c. 23. l. 3. c. 5. 1..4. c. 22. 9. S. Jude, call'd alfo Lebbaus and Thaddens, is related by Nicephorus, to have died quietly and peaceably at Edessa, Hift. Eccl. 1. 2. c. 40. but Dorotheus makes him to have been flain at Be rytus, in Phoenicia, App. in Bibl. Patr. tom. 3. p. 148. 10. S. Simon, the Canaanite, is related in the Roman Breviary, Oftob. 28. to have fuffered Martyrdom, together with S. Jude, in Perfia; but the Greek Menology teftifies him to have been crucified |